Don’t you love it when food is naturally beautiful? Last night we made a terrific recipe from one of my favorite cookbooks called Great Greens. It is the Corn Chowder with Spicy Red Pepper Cream Sauce. I absolutely guaranty it will go over very well, just don’t skimp on the good ingredients!

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Brian Strobel sits down for an interview with Alex Van Horn, Director of “Overdue”, an Official Selection at the 2008 Rappahannock Independent Film Festival. It will be screened on Friday, September 19 at 5:25PM at The Third Floor.

The first few weeks of school are not cooking friendly. There’s a lot going on — everything is in fast forward, earlier sunsets, earlier bedtimes, earlier wake up calls.

We’ve been taking advantage of the great local farmers’ market, heirloom tomatoes from our own garden, and my cheese and hummus connection at kybecca to throw together great fresh food in 10 minutes or less. The kids love dipping veggies into the kybecca hummus with spicy peppadews for their after school snack. We’ve been having the Hudson Valley Camembert with cantalope and berries on the side. So yummy . . .

There’s a quick pasta we throw together, a little smoky blue cheese, prosciutto or bacon, a bit of red wine, garlic, crushed red pepper, tomatoes or not. The Buttermilk Blue at kybecca is terrific in this.

I might not actually plan a meal until Thanksgiving.

I learned over at Tinygrass that the DC school system has officially given up. Since the point of life is to collect a paycheck every 2 weeks, they are just going to pay kids to show up and go through the motions. You know, because it works so well in the corporate world. The kids […]

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With a baby on the way and the blog popularity rising, the other month I started looking for a digital SLR. I thought I had made my decision, when Nikon releases the press release on their new D90. This dslr has the sensor of a pro camera, but with a …

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On Monday Sept. 8 veterans, current members of the military and their families will be converging at the Porter Memorial Library, 2001 Parkway Blvd, Stafford VA 22554 to attend a national security round table discussion with two high ranking former members of the military: Command Sergeant Major Michelle Jones (pictured) who, prior to retirement, was […]

Today was Parelli Play Day at the farm. That meant I had about 4 hours out in the fresh air while Delaney was horsing around. I used the time to read Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi. Actually, I had about 15 pages left when we left for home, but I’m going to round up […]