Margaret K.'s Profile

I planted radish seeds for the first time this year -- a pretty, slender variety called d'avignon radish -- and they were ready to pull up in just a month! I made bread and butter radish pickles (a recipe from CHOW -- I ate them on toast with cream cheese, per a suggestion made here) and a cucumber and radish salad from a recipe on the back of the radish seed packet: http://wellfedeveryone.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/cucumber-and-radish-salad/

Both were outstanding!

I agree with aneelee re: counter clutter. Our bar -- which is between the kitchen and the kitchen table -- is essential for letting light into the kitchen and opening up the kitchen to the rest of the (very, very small) house, but it's also where the laptop, junk mail, dirty dishes, broken toys, cold medicines, etc. inevitably pile up.

Thank you for this!! My kids love slow-cooked pork -- I usually braise it with hard cider and onions -- and I'm sure they'd like this, too.

I made the soda bread with dried cherries & golden raisins posted here last week and it is incredible! Thank you! I made a few changes to make it egg- & dairy-free (just left the eggs out, subbed Earth Balance for butter, and used a combo of cider vinegar and soy milk for the buttermilk) and the recipe adapted beautifully.

Also made lentil soup with a leftover ham bone.

(both are here, if anyone wants recipes: http://wellfedeveryone.wordpress.com/)

Wow, J-Dubz, that looks awesome. Thanks!!

I love my kitchen aid, too, and use it constantly. The pasta rolling attachment is terrific, but I don't love the ice cream making attachment -- the bowl is huge and takes two full days in the freezer to get cold enough to use (and takes up a huge amount of space), and if it's a really hot day, the ice cream doesn't aerate all that well (since the top is open). That said, I still use the ice cream maker frequently, I just curse it often.

Brianna:

My son has a dairy allergy -- you can get a simple blood test (called a RAST test) that will tell you if you have a milk allergy and how that allergy breaks down re: the components of milk. Casein is one of those componants. The test gives you a score (<.35 to 100) that you can track over time to see if/how your sensitivity changes. My son's pediatrician ordered the RAST test -- perhaps your gp could do the same (to save you a trip to an allergist until you have some test results in hand).

Good luck!

We're snowed under in Boston. Made Bavarian soft pretzels with the kids.

I'm not a vegetarian, but do eat meatless a lot of the time. I really don't like the meat-substitutes. I'm more likely to use beans, lentils, or grains in place of meat -- for instance, I use a combo of bulgur and lentils in place of ground lamb in moussaka.

Yes! We by a sparkling white wine from Portugal called vinho verde by the case. It's light, dry, 10.5 % alcohol, and about $5/bottle.