This coming weekend, I am headed to Lisbon Falls for the Moxie Festival Recipe Contest. As many of you will recall, I took home first place in the savory division last year with my Moxie hot wings. This year, however, instead of competing, my voracious pregnant-lady appetite and I are sitting on the jury. It […]

About this time of year, my mom’s garden would produce a bumper crop of rhubarb. Though it typically prefers cooler temperatures and partial shade, and the plants that lined the right side of the path into our massive garden were exposed to full sun, they were happy and fruitful, with leaves so big that I […]

I am a ‘caffiend.’ This made-up word is how I often refer to myself in the context of my ongoing caffeine addiction, which I attempt to break every few months. I have been unable to do so completely, but when I found out I was going to be a mom, I knew I definitely needed to […]

I have had a long-standing love/hate relationship with chicken burgers for almost as long as I can remember. Okay, I’m exaggerating — it was a one-sided, full-on hate relationship. My mom insisted, when I was a kid, that chicken burgers were tasty and healthy. I insisted right back that they were boring and flavorless, an opinion that […]

We are nearing the end of ramp season, and though I wasn’t able to find any in the wild (mostly due to lack of time to devote to the search) I have been able to buy some locally-foraged ramps from local grocery stores, and so I have, at last, bagged my white whale. They were […]

This past weekend was Memorial Day weekend, which to many people signals the unofficial start of barbecue season; if you missed the BDN garden show special insert at the beginning of April, you missed my tips for hosting a successful, low-stress barbecue event, as well as my recipe for foil packet potatoes on the grill. […]

Since our success locating and experimenting with Japanese knotweed, Ian and I have been sort of consumed with the idea of foraging. There’s just something very satisfying about going into the woods and emerging with something both safe to eat and tasty as well. Personally, I really want to find and try ramps, but until […]

Every weekend that we’re both free, Ian and I like to go for a long, scenic nature walk. I call them hikes — because for me, they are — but Ian’s idea of a hike involves a mountain trail, and usually his dad. We also have been wanting to find the time to try foraging, and since spring is […]