Kara & Michael’s Blog

Last night I made Flounder Florentine - using whiting instead of flounder and using collards instead of spinach. I thought I’d explain it because it was pretty simple and Michael said it was good.
To start, I boiled water with a vegetable bouillon cube. You could certainly use meat stock if you choose. Then I rinsed [...]

Inari often does very irritating things because she is smart. Do not ask me how she does some of the things that she does because I do not know. But yesterday evening I came home and she had managed to get a Tupperware container of shortbread cookies open and pull out ONE cookie, only one, [...]

Michael and I went to see Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine last night at the 9:30 club.
For those who have never visited 9:30, it’s a pretty small club in Washington, DC. I used to visit frequently, the shows are pretty reasonably priced, they’re all-ages unless otherwise specified, and they’re pretty well run. The [...]

Last night, after an evening meeting and super-late bus for Michael and a load of errands for me, we decided to deviate from our scheduled meals and eat out at a  local chain restaurant. We were seated next to a mother, father and their two children (a daughter of about 6-8 years, a son of [...]

Garlic Scapes
Oregano
Chard, bunch of stems
Collard Greens, bunch of stems
Zucchini, one
Spring Mix, one bag
Big head of Lettuce (Red Leaf, maybe?)
Beets, one bunch
Red Potatoes, 6 or so
Bing Cherries, one pint

Michael loves cherries, and I’m allergic (darn birch sensitivity!) to uncooked cherries, so those are all for him. Still, though, is anything prettier than a cherry? Not [...]

Michael has a philosophy on weight loss that goes like this, “Live like you are the weight you want to be, and gradually you will move towards that weight.” It makes sense, no? So yesterday, he asked if I would walk the 2.something miles (one way) to the dollar store with him. It’s an [...]

Anyone who is pro-ana.  Walk away right now, because I know you’re just going to throw a fit about how no one understands you and how you have every right to do what you want to your own body.  You’re right, you do. But don’t think for a minute that the way you take care [...]

This Saturday night Michael and I visited The Bohemian Caverns, on U-street in Washington, DC.
I’m a live music junkie. Back when I had a lot more friends in the area, I was attending local concerts probably once or twice a month. Let me assure you all - I miss it. I love dive clubs, I [...]

I hope that “Bob” won’t regard this as a sacrilege, but Flying Spaghetti Monster appeared to me last night on my cutting board.  I doubt “Bob” minds so long as he gets his profits.

I simply pulled the garlic scapes out of their packaging and set them on the cutting board, and they formed this shape, [...]

Kara just wrote about what we got in our CSA this week, so I thought I’d list the meals we came up with to use up that produce. We’ll eat most of these two nights, or for dinner and then for lunch on a subsequent day, because the 700-750 calories we eat for dinner just [...]