Archive for November 2009

The pumpkin pie substitute

Say nobody in your family likes pumpkin pie, but you’re a traditionalist. So at Thanksgiving, you’re kind of screwed. You feel like you must serve pumpkin pie because it’s always been done, but you know you’ll be left with most of a pie to be thrown away or fed to the dog. But we [...]

The Turkey Countdown

I’m still alive, although you’d never know it based on my conspicuous absence from this blog over the past few weeks. What can I say? We picked our last tomatoes in October and then I took a break from thinking about gardening for awhile. We do have a small fall garden underway, mainly just cabbage [...]