Suvir

New year, new thinking, new beginnings, new recipe, new tastes - new life! A reflective guest-post by Ellen Tarver

I’m making my peace with food. And I won’t give up. 2012 will be a year of adventure—learning from both successes and failures—and of new tastes and discoveries.

I’m more determined than ever to leave the children’s table behind me, to care about what I eat, and to shop in the produce aisle and not the frozen foods section. What an exciting year this will be!

This is how I ended my blog a year ago, when I wrote about how Suvir Saran’s recipes and encouragement had changed my life and awakened and educated my palate. And I was right—2012 was a year of great culinary adventure and excitement.

Four & twenty blackbirds at Masala Farm

This post is devoted to the summer avian life present in Washington County and specifically at American Masala farm.  My husband Peter & I enjoy birding so decided start a list of all the birds we saw and heard during our visit. 

                        This is the stately prince of Masala Farm.  I cannot remember his name but I think it is an                       indian name that means Prince...Now I can only wonder who really wears the pants at

Masala Farm!  

This bird gets my vote!

Seeing him strut his stuff around the farm...like he owns the place.

and he does.

Farmers markets are all about the people…guest post by Bonnie Deahl

 

“Follow the sunflowers!   That’s where we’ll be.   Just look for the howitzer across the street that pointing right at us!,” says Juanita Tool,  market manager of the Purcellville Community Market.

Thanksgiving with an exotic twist, guest post by Bonnie Deahl

November 25, 2010

When November rolls around each year we reflect on events that have influenced us and have made us change the way we live our lives.   Make it a point to stray from your comfort zone and do things you have never done.  This is where lives are lived fully…