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We’re just gonna pretend that it isn’t already halfway through August and that I’m not only just now finishing up my International Zine Month posts. I’ve made a bad habit of starting every blog with some sort of apology about the post coming out late (how zinester-y of me!) or waxing poetic about how fast time flies… and I’ve gotta stop that. It’s boring. Let’s be real: I’m shouting into a big internet void on this blog. Time here is flexible, malleable. Any deadlines are self imposed. This post could have premiered at anytime and it really wouldn’t change a thing about it. I’ve noticed that when I hem and haw […]

  This is the view from my kitchen island on Monday: an abundance of parsley, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, and peppers from the Bread and Roses CSA (plus some grocery store fruit.) Over the past 7 weeks, my kitchen island has looked like this: overflowing with produce, flavorful herbs, plentiful greens, glossy eggplants, and resplendent troves of juicy, jewel-hued tomatoes that taste just as great as they look. I’ve encountered both new-to-me foods (sweet potato vines! cutting celery!) and plenty of staples (potatoes! onions!) and I’ve been using each week’s haul in everything from coleslaw, to scrambles, to daily salads. Here is a complete run-down of all the veg that has appeared […]