Welcome to My Kitchen

This is the place that I love to be. I like to be creative and cooking is what is doing it for me these days. It's kind of a necessity and it makes me feel accomplished. I like knowing what we are eating and where it comes from. I go out of my way to make sure this happens.
I like that I don't buy several household staples from a grocery store. I enjoy making applesauce, jams and jellies, apple butter, spaghetti sauce, spicy mustard, pickles and anything else I can.
I like getting dirty, getting my hands into things, feeling and experiencing my food from the beginning to the end. I like making things, growing things and bringing those two together to create a healthy meal. I like nourishing others and knowing that I did my best to give them the best.











Monday, July 11, 2011

CSA basket for the week and 100th post!!!

So, I think you can tell that we had cabbage in the last two CSA baskets but not this week!  I was pleasantly surprised by three pickling cucumbers, which I love to peel, slice, salt and eat.  I am using the zucchini and onions in shish kabobs for tonight's dinner.  And I peeled a ton of garlic which I may roast tomorrow for my homemade pizza.
Here's the lowdown:  We got zucchini and yellow squash, garlic and onions, banana peppers, cucumbers and greens.  I am guessing these are greens by their smell but will ask my grandpa tomorrow what kind they are.  My grandpa is from Georgia and we grew up eating turnip and mustard greens with corn bread, cracklin's and all that other good ol' Southern fare.



I guess after posting these last few posts, I have realized just how lucky I am.  I was able to experience the Polish food that my maternal grandma made and the Southern foods of my maternal grandpa's rearing.  I like to think that I have taken some of their recipes and honored them by making them and sometimes by making them my own.  I am mostly lucky that I was surrounded by such great cooks.
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