Last week, while watching the kids cruise bikes and scooters up and down the street, our neighbor casually mentioned the abundance of zucchini in his backyard. To drive the point home his daughter came screaming from the house that she had just “found another one” that was at least 10″ long. Whether she was excited [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Zucchini Week at the Sidewalk Cafe
Posted in cooking, food, recipes, sidewalk cafe, whole food, zucchini, tagged cooking, recipes, sidewalk cafe, whole food on July 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Chongo Bongo Bars
Posted in cooking, food, recipes, whole food, tagged baking, recipes, whole food on July 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Everyone’s experienced it: a memory so vivid, you could taste it. Earlier this week at the library, MaryBeth and Junior were reading a book called “Jalapeno Bagels”, based on a Hispanic/Jewish bakery in Southern California. One of the recipes in the back of the book was for “Chango Bars”. While reading, MaryBeth had flashbacks to [...]
Do they make Xtracycles for 12″ bikes?
Posted in bike commuting, family, Farmers' Market, parenting, xtracycle, tagged bike commuting, family, Farmers' Market, Junior, parenting, xtracycle on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Habits are formed early, so we’ve been trying to influence Junior’s transportation habits since he was a wee young thing. When he was really little MaryBeth would occasionally take him on the bus to/from school. For a toddler, there was no cooler method of transportation than mass transit – let’s hope that sentiment sticks with [...]
Take Time For Rainbows
Posted in bike commuting, Farmers' Market, whole food, xtracycle, tagged bike commuting, Farmers' Market, xtracycle on July 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Wednesday was both our first “date night” with the Xtracycles and the inaugural voyage of Mark’s Xtracycle. “Voyage” seems apt given the extra size, weight etc. of an X-bike. Mark picked his up from the Sports Garage Tuesday night (with the car oddly enough) and was immediately handed the task of hauling the weekly dairy [...]
Hot Weather, Cool Neighbors…
Posted in cooking, recipes, sidewalk cafe, whole food, tagged cooking, recipes, sidewalk cafe, whole food on July 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Sunday was a scorcher and that made this week’s Sidewalk Cafe HOT, HOT, HOT! That didn’t stop us from enjoying some cold beverages, tasty food, and cool neighbors. Not surprisingly, most of the offerings this week were not hot – who wants to fire up the oven when the house is already 88 degrees? Also [...]
Xtracycle and the Extra Cycle
Posted in bike commuting, xtracycle, tagged bike commuting, xtracycle on July 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
While we can’t say this is exactly what the Xtracycle folks had in mind when they created their “Free Radical” beast, MaryBeth is shown here with and “extra cycle” loaded on the Xtracycle. Here’s how that came to be… We were quite proud of Junior today for riding his pedal bike (sans training wheels) nearly [...]
This Week’s Veggie Menu Challenge
Posted in cooking, Farmers' Market, recipes, whole food, tagged Farmers' Market, recipes, whole food on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(Photo: Abbondanza)At long last Mother Nature remembered that variety is the spice of life. Fortunately the good folks at Abbondanza are in tune with Ms. Nature and thus this week’s veggie box had a HUGE variety of early summer vegetables. Good thing, as our creative skills were wearing thin after a few weeks of mostly [...]
X-mas in July?
Posted in bike commuting, xtracycle, tagged bike commuting, xtracycle on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MaryBeth spent last Sunday morning pacing the floor as if she were a little kid and it was Christmas Eve. No, we weren’t getting a jump start on the holidays, but she was getting a heck of a present that day. The transformation of her mild mannered commuter bike into an Xtracycle commuting superhero was [...]
Luxury Camping – Deprivation Need Not Apply
Posted in camping, family, tagged camping, family on July 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well it’s not every weekend that you can gather up a crowd and head out to enjoy the great outdoors. Last weekend though was one of those rare times. And boy what a crowd we had – and what fun it was… This was the third year of the great Buffalo Creek Camping/Mountain Biking extravaganza [...]
Stretching the greens…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged recipes on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week’s burning culinary question: what to do when you return home from a week-long beach vacation…to a refrigerator void of anything but greens? Yes, we had LOTS of greens from two weeks’ worth of CSA pick-ups, but NO eggs, yogurt, or cheese. Given that this summer’s beach reading was Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, [...]
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