The East:
Jenny (Daftly Smitten) packed her lunchbox with SOLE foods all week. Fresh fruit, local sauerkraut, a mash of boiled root veggies, smoked Swiss and Colby cheese cubes with boiled eggs, and my favorite – fridge-pickled carrot sticks!
Remember the snow storms that plagued D.C. just a few weeks ago? Stacey (Fessenden Farmstead) took advantage [...]
Huge congratulations to those who are sticking with the challenge. We have a couple more short weeks, and any challenge takers can continue to post — even if you’ve dropped off recently (I haven’t posted in a couple weeks, personally, but plan to do so this week).
Laura’s Dark Days meal was homemade pasta [...]
Incanto's Pork Ragu – Thanks to Jen
Sometimes friends bring you gifts and sometimes they bring you gifts of really good food. If you’ve never had Boccalone salumi you’re seriously missing out. If you have had it you completely understand why this single jar made me dream and plan for almost a week before we [...]
The East:
Jenny (Daftly Smitten) used up her monster head of cabbage to make dishes that will feed them for weeks to come (some went in the freezer). First up was a rustic cabbage soup with carrots, rutabagas, onion, garlic and sweet Italian sausage. Next was a recipe for braised cabbage with apple and mustard.
It [...]
Where has everyone gone? There are 3 weeks left in the challenge (it ends March 31) and hopefully we’ll finish strong and not just dwindle off until no one is left…
I apologize for the lateness of the recaps this week. Anita was traveling and Mike and I have been working hard on the bathroom the [...]
It seems only a few hardy Pacific Northwest souls are making it into the Dark Days Challenge’s home stretch, leaving me with fewer and fewer posts to recap (and lots of puzzling “this is my last Dark Days post” posts), even though we’ve got a few weeks left to go. Don’t forget that Dark Days [...]
Delancey :: bar and kitchen
Yesterday wasn’t a big birthday, but it was my birthday nonetheless and sometimes you have to celebrate even the unexciting years in a BIG way. Hence the fun fest that was the last 4 days…
On Friday, while I was finishing up a paper at work, Jen, Jeanne and [...]