The other evening during supper, Charlie said, “It’s starting to taste like summer.” That’s because one of the enterprising vendors at the farmers’ market had started plants in the greenhouse and had green tomatoes to sell. By husbandential fiat, we can’t pick any green tomatoes…
We joined a CSA, which is kind of like sharecropping in reverse. We pay folks and they grow stuff and give us some. One thing they’ve been giving us lately is chard. Now, I haven’t had a lot of contact with chard up to now.…
In fact, it’s the ultimate 1950’s American comfort food. Although minced meat had been around since ancient times, the meat was usually pre-cooked (leftovers). Ground raw meat wasn’t processed and sold until the late 1800’s. Lack of refrigeration and ground meat’s potential for spoilage kept…
