The Miller's Daughter

How will I spin all this straw into gold??

CSA Haul, Wed. 10/23/13: 

Vine tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, eggplant, turnips, "spicy mix," beets, arugula, cauliflower, broccoli, kale, spinach, lettuces and carrots.

With the help of my Rumpelstiltskin, of course!

Rumpelstiltskin.

How are you guys managing the plentiful produce that the height of the season provides?

If you don't have enough bounty to complain about, get thee to a Farmers Market before it's all over!  Just put your zip code into the search box and check "Farmers' Markets."  BTW, it seems folks find it difficult to agree on Farmer's vs.  Farmers' vs. Farmers Market, though each manifestation has fans. Most commonly it's Farmers Market or Farmers' Market, if  anyone cares.

Remember the Haddonfield Farmers Market? This coming weekend is it's last weekend for the season.

I would love to hear what you guys are making, since I can't share what I'm making! How are you spinning *your* straw into gold??

Call for Testers!

Do you crave intrigue? Mystery? Fame and fortune?

Satisfy all your earthly desires, become a tester for my cookbook!

If you'd like to be a tester for my book (and I hope you do!!)  just leave me your name and email address in a comment below and I will get you the details.

Since I moderate the comments here, I won't "publish" them to the post to keep your email addresses private.  So, you won't see your comment appear on this post, but rest assured I see it and you should get an email from me shortly with the testing details.

Fame and fortune await!

Guess What?

Guess what? 

It's kind of like a baby...

I'm gonna have a book!

Grandma Margie, circa 1965.

I'm honored and excited to be working with Jon Robertson and the wonderful folks at Vegan Heritage Press on my first cookbook, due out in Spring, 2015. 

Specific content as well as the working title is top secret, but, yes, it's a cookbook!

Join me here for more fun with Vegan Fazool in the meantime...

Fun such as "Extreme Nesting!"

Extreme Nesting.

To prepare for the book's arrival, it's important to make sure *everything* is clean.

See you soon!

Adios, MoFo! Bienvenido, Otoño!

Lo siento MoFo!

Readers: Please accept this depressed child's first-day-of-school-face in exchange for the eleven posts I failed to produce this MoFo.

Because of all of my issues this month (which started last month, and then there was the month before that, and the month before that...I've had a difficult summer!) my Video 'Fo posts suffered.  I'm sure we can all move on.  Much to everyone's chagrin, I'm sure I'll do more videos.  However, I hope to find a way to improve (or replace!) Movie Maker, which seriously hindered my Five Minute Video 'Fo flow.  I had several more videos I'd hoped to have posted, but MM chose to crash about every five minutes (or, sometimes, immediately after opening) during my work editing said videos.  Editing the last few vids I posted took me much, much longer than they should have since I had to keep re-booting Windows 8 (yeah, I know, it's not so bad, but I still hate the Metro screen)  and re-loading Movie Maker, and restoring projects that closed down illegally, etc. etc.  So, I ended up with many fewer videos than I intended.  I'm sorry, MoFo!

The Five Minute Video 'Fo Fest Fell Short.

Adios, Vegan MoFo!

Anyway, now it's officially fall, and I am ready for the season in all it's burnt orange glory! Normally, I am relieved at summer's ending since I don't weather the hot, humid summers of south jersey particularly well; but this time, I'm nostalgic.  Summers in south jersey usually involve way too many 90+ degree days, with many in the high 90's or even several 100+ degree days like we had last year and the year before that.  This year, we had a lovely, cool, wet summer and those are my absolute favorite kind.  Even slightly cooler temperatures make summers much more tolerable, good for gardening (but not good conditions for fall pumpkins, unfortunately), swimming, and general outdoor cavorting.  Alas, it is with the sweet, rich blue-blush of figs heavy in the tree and the warm breeze chilling as it rises from the sidewalk and mingles with the fallen leaves that I welcome Autumn and all the new beginnings she brings.  

Bienvenido, Otoño!

What new beginnings do you hope for this season?

Pick Your Own...Part Deux!

Since I know none of you have been able to sleep since I posted Part One...

I present to you, Pick Your Own Paste Tomatoes, Part Deux!

Witness a Plethora of Paste Tomatoes Retrieved by Magical Means!

Alakazamakazoo!

Five Minute Video 'Fo Fest! Sept. 1st through Sept. 30th, 2013.

The Haddonfield Farmers Market

On Saturdays from May through October, the King's Court area of Haddonfield, NJ fills up with an adorable Farmers Market!  Join me for a brief tour on this gorgeous day!

Haddonfield Farmers Market, Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. through 1:00 p.m. May through Oct.

Click here for the official Haddonfield Farmers Market website.

Here's the vendor directory, it's small, but so cute!

This time I *did* forget to "turn my phone" :-) 

Sorry, guys! It's so much easier to hold it upright rather than horizontally.

Enjoy this gorgeous day!

Five Minute Video 'Fo Fest! Sept. 1st through Sept. 30th, 2013

Pick Your Own...Or Not!

We made a sojourn to the farm this weekend to pick some paste tomatoes for canning, or, at least, that was the plan.

It was a beautiful day!

Sauce tomatoes? Yes, please!

Making friends along the way.

Pick Your Own...Or Not!


Have you guys picked *your* own this season?

Five Minute Video 'Fo Fest! September 1st through September 30th, 2013.

Let's not forget to send healing thoughts and prayers to victims and families of 9/11 today, and to thank the thousands of heroes who risked their own lives that day to save others.

Have a peaceful day!

**For the exciting conclusion to this cliffhanger, check out PYO Part Deux!**