Christine | February 29, 2012
Saying goodbye is never easy, but starting that conversation over a glorious meal does ease the process considerably. On Saturday night Andy and I hosted our Carlisle dinner club for the very last time since we established it back in August 2005, as we are relocating to coastal Maine sometime this summer where Andy will [...]
Christine | November 25, 2011
The thing about having Thanksgiving dinner with fellow Americans when you are on foreign soil is that it’s really just all about Home. So my first major meal – mind you, I had a considerable amount of cheese (Comte), bread (pave), saucisson (sec) and wine (Cote de Rhone) in my first 27 hours, but this [...]
Christine | September 30, 2011
So Eliza hijacked the CSA booty again today. The last time this happened, I beamed with pride at the fact that I had a kid that could just dig in and whip something up that was both nutritious and edible. No holds barred, no cookbooks opened. This time I was in awe as I watched her [...]
Christine | September 22, 2011
There are some days when it feels like I live in the backwater of the middle of nowhere. And there are others when I feel like Carlisle, Pennsylvania, sits at the intersection of everywhere. Meet Josephine. In her native Rwanda, she’s a successful business woman who spends her working hours supplying the country’s aquaculture industry [...]
Christine | August 28, 2011
This is my buddy Cameron (taking refuge here in Central PA while his Boston home weathers Irene) munching on the last of the season’s organic watermelon that showed up in my CSA box last week. It was in the fridge all week and was ice cold. Cam surprised his mom when he said “Actually it’s [...]
Christine | August 27, 2011
I am land locked, granted. And we’ve got a new roof and an upgraded gutter system that will hopefully shuttle all of the rain water we’re going to get tomorrow afternoon as far away from our basement as possible. But even from where I sit here in Central PA as merely a storm voyeur, [...]
Christine | August 23, 2011
If you’re invited to belly up to the Rudalevige dinner table anytime soon, you might want to think twice about accepting, maybe you can pull out that sick aunt of yours in Seattle so my feelings won’t be hurt. You see, we’ve been forced to take up post-vacation austerity measures and while we can bask [...]
Christine | May 15, 2011
You just gotta hate when you pull in kitchen reinforcements to help you get through a project and they just kick you culinary butt up and down the island. I have to admit I was hurtling toward the deadline, and I hadn’t attempted this month’s Charcutepalooza bulk sausage challenge. Not only did my friend and [...]
Christine | April 15, 2011
Hello, my name is Christine. And I have a problem. I will smoke anything. Well anything that fits into the Burton stove top smoker, anyway. I bought it in order to participate in this month’s Charcutepalooza challenge. But I wound up smoking so much in the last 30 days that my kids no longer blink [...]
Christine | April 12, 2011
I drove 226 miles round trip to eat a Korean taco out of the side of a truck. You could probably calculate my stupidity in light of gas prices, but you can’t tell me I lack dedication. And I can definitely tell you that my pilgrimage to dine on food from the Takorean truck in [...]
