There’s a natural food store and café in Frederick, MD, called Common Market that has been there since 1974. It’s similar to Whole Foods except more focused on small local farms, reasonably priced...

Today was a weird day to make dinner because one kid is at overnight camp and the other one had to work during the dinner hour. I had to cook lamb steaks because they were previously frozen and...

Today my son’s summer overnight camp in Gambrill State Park had parents’ visiting day. Parents were supposed to bring a dish to share for lunch. Everyone in his unit (besides him) is vegetarian...

Luckily I picked up a nice, little, backyard harvest yesterday since Hurricane Arthur is in town today. Once the cucumbers (or pickles, doesn’t really matter which) come in full force, it will be time...

I went to a co-worker’s office at work and she had a McDonald’s bag on her desk and was eating dinner. She told me she stops at McDonald’s almost every day at least once. I didn’t ask her if she knows...

This makes a really colorful meal, especially when you use the rainbow chard. If you can buy meat from farmers that only pasture their animals in grass, then the meat is gluten-free because they...

This guy name Lou Altobelli, on the corner of 108 and New Hampshire Ave, sells the most giant horse carrots. I stopped there today to get a picture of one but he was out, so I’ll try again next month...

I usually wait to make eggplant parmesan for the weekend since it takes a while to brown the eggplant slices. Although, now I have shown the kids how to do the browning so it can be done when I get...

Back at my mother-in-law’s today and picked a bucket of sugar snap peas. She has found that there’s no such thing as deer-resistant anything, so you can see the extent of fencing around the main...

I suddenly realized that we could have been using the slow cooker through the height of sports season when we sometimes had to eat in shifts. A slow cooker dinner can sit there and be ready and warm...

Today at the farm market (England Acres) there were a lot of peach and apple pies and Baker Jack was there to point out the ingredients, how heavy they were (3 lbs!), and answer questions. I never had...

I decided to find out what happened with the House bill that I reported about (on May 27). This bill would allow schools to opt out of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 if they showed...