Rebecca Weger

My first thought after pouring the last of the coconut milk into the soup? “Oh.  You should have saved some of that to drizzle on top of the soup in some fancy pattern.  You’re never going to catch on to this food staging business.”  Luckily, that had nothing to do with how dinner tasted.  That, [...]

It was the first cool weekend day that demanded fresh bread and homemade soup. We went to the market in the morning, picking up what felt like tons of food. When I could no longer figure out how to carry anything we came home (but not before tasting the chocolate-covered bacon at the Piggery).  [...]

For a while I was fairly content with the gluten-free breads we were buying in the store, but lately I found I just wasn’t satisfied with them anymore. The frozen ones are abysmal, but the Le Garden bread made locally wasn’t too bad.  I was always a bit frustrated that it isn’t vegetarian, and I’ve [...]

When I was growing up, my parents had blueberries in the backyard.  They were enclosed in with blue wire fencing, covered with netting.  Mirrors or unused AOL cds hung in between to scare the birds away.  Mom made the best blueberry muffins and blueberry cobbler.  I think of those cobblers each summer as the [...]

As sometimes happens, a break was unavoidable, but I am still here, and we’re still eating.
In a surpise move, I was inspired to craft something on a recent weeknight.  I had been out of town for 5 days and Joseph took a shot at a bread recipe we hadn’t tried before.  It was an artisan [...]

The concept for this recipe originated with a friend named Steve who I haven’t seen in many years. It was the perfect meal for the season’s first summer squash and basil.

If desired, cook some Italian sausage, cut into half-moons and set aside.
Cook pasta (Tinkyada rice pasta) with several handfuls of fresh chopped basil [...]

In the spirit of “Food Independence Day” we decided to cook up a pretty traditional meal for the 4th, and took the challenge to source our food pretty close to home.  Here’s how I think we did:

Grass-fed beef and potatoes from Sabol’s Farm (26 miles)
Bun from Le Garden Bakery (13 miles)
Mushrooms (Pennsylvania)
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I had an increasingly common moment today where I found out that another co-worker of mine is also gluten-free.  I feel like we’re in a secret club and we should all have a secret handshake.  A decoder ring would be great too – especially for figuring out how to navigate a world that sometimes feels [...]