The title says it all. This pesto recipe really is amazing. Last week I was at my local farm where so many wonderful vegetables are now in season. The garlic is so fresh and flavorful and the basil was growing like crazy. So I came home, pulled up...

This recipe, Marmalade Flapjacks by Matt Dawson from Surrey, UK is probably one of my top favorites on TDAC. It's also one of the 107 recipes featured in the TDAC book, so it totally deserves a Recipe Review! I love Matt's loose instructions (a handful...

NPR had a super interesting story this morning from Pioppi, Italy -- home of the "Mediterranean diet." It's a simple path to a healthy lifestyle: fresh veggies, fruit, olive oil, a bit of good wine and meat or fish occasionally. 

Turns out that...

Our local farm has bushels and bushels of beautiful beets and I couldn't resist picking up a bunch. I wasn't sure what to do with them so I searched for a recipe with beets on TDAC and found Borscht by Valentina Jaskina from Novosibirsk, Russia....

Salli and her family visited Nate in North Adams, MA last weekend for the 3-day long Wilco Solid Sound music festival. They had a super fun time, ate lots of yummy samosa's from the SamosaMan , listened to tons of great live music, and the best part.......