Rebecca Weger

I’m sort of in trouble.  And its not that this sort of thing hasn’t happened before. A friend messaged me this morning asking for a recipe for a dish she had previously enjoyed at my home. I thought I’d used a recipe from a cookbook, but now that I’m looking at it I’m sure I [...]

My friend Sierra writes a wonderful blog called “ChildWild.”  I don’t even have kids and I read it fervently.  This week she shared her 5 year-old daughter’s recipe for apples from their farm share:  Rio’s Fried Apples for Friends.  Check it out, and check out the rest of her blog while you’re there.

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, [...]

I just received this notice today.  I went to a similar but different event in the spring.  This one is going on my calendar.
Sunday, October 25, 2009  2:30-5:30 PM
Women’s Community Building, 100 West Seneca St., Ithaca, NY
Consumers can meet at least 15 livestock producers from across our region, learn about their farms and products, and [...]

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).  [...]

I feel a bit guilty, and I don’t want to alienate my vegetarian friends here.  But we’ve had some very good meat lately.
I’ve been vegetarian for much of the last 2 1/2 years.  I think its the right thing for me to do by most calculations, and yet, my body doesn’t always seem to agree.  [...]