Grocery order pick-up has become a go-to for reducing shopping exposure during the pandemic. You send in your order, and either pick it up or have it delivered. Some interpretations have been surprising, like a bag of six eggplants instead of two zucchini, or eighteen single instead of eighteen ounces of Brussels Sprouts. In one of our orders…
Black-Eyed Pea Hummus
Inspired by Michael W. Twitty’s transformative book The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South, this hummus is a nod to my continued journey of racism awareness. History moved the somewhat lowly black-eyed pea from a humble mainstay, or animal feed, to a symbol of good luck on New Year’s, due…
How to Cook Dried Black-Eyed Peas or Other Dried Beans
Makes about 5 cups of cooked beans ready to be included in a recipe:
Bea Stump’s Ginger Cookies
It truly feels like fall today, with the temperature down low, and the leaves finally giving us colour. We’ve been picking apples as each type ripens, and over the past few days have been sorting the bins readying them for storage. With a quick brushing to remove any hiding insects, we then divide them into eating, cooking,…
Lemonade Concentrate
What’s summer without Lemonade? This is the easiest way to have the drink of hot sunny days, or of lazy afternoons with a book in the shade. I’ve been using Naturally Imperfect Lemons from Superstore. You get about 13-15 lemons for about $6. It makes about 5 cups of concentrate, which when mixed at 1:3…
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