by Christina on February 18, 2010
Work brought me to snowy Chicago last week and with the trip came a fabulous dinner at a new restaurant in the “up-and-coming” Pilsen neighborhood. Nightwood features a daily-changing menu of seasonal food from nearby farms so I was excited to see what the Midwest had to offer in the middle of winter. Turns out, [...]
by Christina on January 25, 2010
With snow dumping on the mountains, ski season is in full swing. And so in honor of the wonderful sport, Jillian and I have officially deemed this week “Ski Week”. Since we now know that taking a ski trip does not have to translate into boxed mac-n-cheese or Costco snacks, we will share our tried-and-true [...]
by Christina on January 23, 2010
The most rewarding thing about writing Farm and a Frying Pan is hearing that we’ve inspired somebody to take the plunge and sign up for a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) box. It makes all the failed recipe attempts, crazy late nights trying to squeeze in time to write and re-taking out-of-focus photographs worth it. Because that means one [...]