(Note for non-nerds: for searching and matching in various computer languages ‘*’ is a wild card character so it can match anything. So among nerdy vegetarians and vegans, veg*n gets used since * can stand for “etaria” in vegetarian or “a” in vegan so you can write “veg*n” instead of “vegetarian and/ or vegan”. [...]
While grocery shopping before Thanksgiving, the November issue of Gourmet caught my eye. I had not picked up an issue in a while and they had done a vegetarian Thanksgiving menu so I decided to pick it up and take a look.
Their vegetarian entree looked quite tasty and suitably challenging so I announced I [...]
On our way home from NJ Fantôme Chocolat and I stopped at one of my usual farm stands to buy tomatoes. We got ~30 pounds of plum tomatoes.
One thing I knew we were absolutely doing, which I had never done before, was oven-dried tomatoes. They are like sun-dried, except they are oven-dried, obviously. [...]
To pick up where I left off last time:
Fantôme Chocolat and I went on vacation the last week of August and over Labor Day. We stopped in Philadelphia for Belgian Beer (not the topic of this blog but you can always expand your knowledge here) and some culture and then headed to NJ to [...]
