Archive: May 2009

Roasted Asparagus with Miso Dressing

28 May 2009

The asparagus has been showing itself in our greenmarkets for the past couple of weeks.  This is a quick way to get it to your table and into your Yummy’s tummy.  Roasting the asparagus enhances its sweetness though, for an even quicker version, we sometimes just steam the asparagus.  A little miso dressing balances the […]

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Corner View: Cityscapes

27 May 2009

A week before my daughter was born, I was beginning to get a twinge of panic.  We were having her way out in deep, dark Brooklyn, an hour’s drive if you hit full rush hour traffic.  For most women that long drive in the back of a cab might be enough to worry about, but […]

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Corner View: Coffee Granitas

20 May 2009

If you ask me to talk about coffee, or “cwafee,” as we’re prone to say up yonder, a certain longing will creep in.  The taste is devine, the smell even better, but coffee does strange things to me.  I remember lying on the floor in my best friend’s room in high school after drinking it, […]

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Corner View: The Great Outdoors

13 May 2009

For this week’s corner view, we were supposed to give a little peek into the Great Outdoors around our ‘hood.  It pretty much poured all of last week, but there was a break on Saturday.  We hit the park for some playtime and sped around town on our scooters to the annual planting in Duane […]

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Clean Oatmeal and Chocolate Chip Cookies

12 May 2009

 A cookie recipe that I read about the other day on the  A Day that is Dessert Blog intrigued me.  Lecia had read about the recipe via another  blog, 3191 (got to love the internet) and made them successfully, and it struck me right away as a great recipe to try out for my Friday class. […]

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