The Muddy Kitchen

Ramps in Canaan

May 7, 2013

There are a million little signs that quietly whisper d’early spring at The Muddy Kitchen: the house flies that gather for one last hurrah and then up and die by the handful on the windowsills, the tiny artichokes that make their way onto our table, fried whole to a crisp in olive oil and dusted […]

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My Big, Fat, Homemade Butter

March 15, 2013

Nothing says ‘We’re in the country now’ like making your own butter. “You make your own butter?! OMGasp!” Well, actually, it’s not all that hard to make butter. You can do it in your apartment, martini in hand, reservations for dinner at Nobu just moments away. I have to say, while homemade butter is truly […]

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Verbless VVednesdays

March 13, 2013

Wildly optimistic spring pea planting.

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Down at The Sugar Shack

March 12, 2013

When the warm winds blow in and begin to melt my snowy hilltop like a slushy; when the fat, winter flies go belly-up on my windowsill; when my writing office-cum-potting shed is strewn with the detritus of my summer garden planning; when I poke daily at my defrosting earth like a dead dog at the […]

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The Legend of Good Sh*t

March 8, 2013

Two things things that have become abundantly clear to me at The Muddy Kitchen: 1. No matter how big your tractor is, it’s never big enough. 2. Your sh*t is never as good as it might have been had you only heard the Legend earlier. Each year I spend way more time thinking about sh*t […]

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Verbless VVednesdays

March 6, 2013

“How thin?” “Goodfella’s thin.”

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The Perfect BLT

March 5, 2013

You can keep your Daube de Boeuf, your Oeufs Meurette, and your Salmon Dijonnaise; nothing floats my boat like a well-constructed BLT. In my book, a BLT is the perfect food. One of the things that’s so utterly awesome about a BLT is that the ingredient checklist is built right in. When you find yourself […]

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This Year’s Garden – A Sneak Peek!

February 27, 2013

The nice thing about being really, really, really, super, really sick in January is that January is when my seed catalogs begin flooding in. What else is there to do in January anyway, besides sip a hot pot of Sleepytime tea, wield a quality highlighter, press a Castor Oil pack against one’s liver region, and […]