Cooking Vanessa's Beans at Frankie's Place

Reading Frankie's Place: A Love Story , by Jim Sterba (NY: Grove Press, 2003) makes you feel like you are visiting friends at…

Creamy Black Bean Soup with Roasted Fennel

Certain members of the Crispy household  have been having some tender tummies and medically-authorized restricted diets as of lat…

Curried Lentils

One of my favorite recipes, My Favorite Lentil Soup , comes from Jane Brody's Good Food Book , a cookbook I bought when my el…

For the love of Mexican food!

There are a few things that really get my tastebuds all fired up. I love love love coriander and I love love mild chillies - Supe…

How are things growing?

Because it is the 1st of April I thought I would do a quick update of what's growing in the garden... Broad beans - these are…

Expectations and other random thoughts.

I have been woman down since Sunday with a nasty head cold. It has forced me to be in bed for the better part of the last two day…

Weekdays are a blur

No matter how busy my weekdays get (and they do get busy!) I always try to make time for a little of this-ing and that-ing in the…

Another try

This morning before the heat struck I gave all the beds a good water by hand a a thick layer of compost. Where the squashes were …