Going to watch fireworks is the last thing I want to do on the Fourth of July. I’m mulling over the possible excuses and reasons I can present to get out of it as Bob and I walk the dirt road, scanning the blossoms on the elderberry bushes. We’re checking to see if any of […]
Archives for June 2017
Week Night Heaven: Tamari-Ginger Shaved Steaks
Shaved steaks, also called “sandwich steaks,” are extremely thin slices of meat that your butcher cuts from the top, bottom and eye round with a rotary meat slicer. They are often used for Philly cheese steak sandwiches, but here they take a fabulous Asian twist that is one of my kids’ favorite dishes. Once marinated, […]
The Business of Creativity
Become a Patron When I was a teenager, my mom had a prescient friend who traveled to New Orleans with her. An aspiring jazz sax player myself, I longed to go with them, but had to stay home and go to school. While wandering down Bourbon Street one lazy afternoon, they came upon a young […]
Kabobs: Full flavored, Juicy, and Righteously NOT TENDER
The heat of summer inspires meat lovers everywhere to cast aside their pots and pans for the sake of connecting more primitively with their food. Grills light up across the nation, and flames lick at burgers and tender cuts of rib eye steaks, sirloins, porterhouses, t-bones, and filet mignon, liberated from the tempering effects of […]
Truth & Dreams
My graduate school advisors would not clear me to begin my research on Schoharie County agriculture before I could proficiently discuss the nature of truth. Was I a positivist, one who believes that truth can be known, most often through quantification, and therefore predicted and controlled? Or was I more of a naturalist, who believed […]
The Learning Curtain
“I’m just sick of learning. I’ve learned enough. There’s no way I’m going to college.” “Or would you rather be a mule?” I sing the refrain to the old song quietly as I wipe down the kitchen counters and move some dishes over to the sink where Bob stands washing. I’m a big believer in […]
What Democracy Looks Like
Photo courtesy of Reggie Harris I’m leafing through a stack of protest signs in the corner of the mudroom, reading the markered letters, looking to see what can be recycled for tonight. The subjects we’ve collected thus far are about human rights and the environment. It looks like we’ll need to draft something fresh and […]
Chicken and Rice with a Sherry Cream Sauce
Chicken (or Turkey) and Wild Rice with a Sherry Cream Sauce Taken from: Long Way on a Little: An Earth Lovers’ Companion for Enjoying Meat, Pinching Pennies and Living Deliciously, by Shannon Hayes This recipe is an easy-to-make treat in our household, giving us something to look forward to the day after we’ve enjoyed a […]