My Madison Bistro

If you live in the US, there’s a good chance you’ve been affected by this week’s heatwave. If you haven’t yet made homemade lemonade to cool off, well, what are you waiting for?! Earlier in the week, when I saw that Michelle made Deb‘s Watermelon Lemonade, I immediately decided to emulate her.

As a kid, my favorite part of summer was playing outside. Well, and of course the long break from school. As an adult, my favorite part of summer is the abundance of fresh produce. Memories of washing off a carrot just pulled from the garden, and munching on it with the greens attached just like […]

For me, pasta is more of a delivery vehicle for a favorite sauce, rather than an excitement unto itself. Sure, there are gourmet flavored pastas, which I do enjoy from time to time, but for the most part, I don’t find pasta all that interesting. A few years back, I discovered spaghetti squash and realized […]

One of the reasons I joined a CSA is to try new things. And though I’d passed chard in the grocery store many times, and appreciated the colorful stalks, I never really knew what to do with it, so I passed it up. Well, there was a bunch of brightly colored chard in this week’s […]