Eat in Albany

Every October the charity I am involved in holds an event that is very dear to my heart.  That event is called Meatfest.  One finds all sorts of amazing items at an event named Meatfest.  Last year the event volunteers ate deep-fried prime rib.
For this year’s Meatfest I decided to contribute meatballs. Making sauce and five [...]

Thyme! Picked it up at the Albany Farmers’ Market on Saturday. I don’t do much cooking with thyme. My main purpose in growing this is for making cocktails inspired by the SummerThyme (thyme, something boozy and lemony, honey) from DeJohn’s, the drink many of my friends were nuts for last year.
Hang in there little guy!

So far, so good. Cross your fingers they survive.
We started with our most wanted list: rosemary, mint, and basil. Two pots of basil, actually, since BK uses it frequently for caprese salad and pasta sauce.
In other herb news: this week marked our first CSA half-share, which included dried oregano. Now, I know one should replace [...]

As the weather warms one of the increasingly apparent flaws of this apartment is its lack of outdoor space for growing things. No porch, no fire escape, no patio. Before moving here I’d always enjoyed raising planters of tomatoes and mint (mmmojitos!) on fire escapes. BK had boxes of rosemary, basil, chives, and oregano hanging [...]