fox in the garden: community

30 June 2010

Cupcakes Make the Party

Ah, the beautiful marriage of blueberries and lemon! This week my siblings and I threw a very belated birthday party for my brother's girlfriend. When I asked her what kind of cake she wanted, she replied, "Anything, but chocolate." No chocolate! Gasp! So I hit the cookbooks looking for a party-worthy, non-chocolate birthday cake, and since I now have the stand on which to set them, I decided it must be in cupcake form. In the past week or so, I have been lustily gazing at the recipes in Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. So many cupcakes to choose from! This book is amazing! I finally decided on the Blueberry Lemon Creme Cupcakes simply because my house still has so many bags of frozen blueberries from last summer. And although the Vegan Girls have a gluten-free yellow cake recipe, I ended up using a cake recipe (not vegan) from the book Gluten-Free Baking Classics. I added a dollop of lemon curd (recipe also from Gluten-Free Baking Classics) at the center and covered it with the vegan blueberry compote and vegan lemon buttercream icing. The cupcakes were a success and the birthday girl was very pleased.

And don't those cupcakes look so handsome on their little pedestal?

23 January 2010

Gloucester Farmers Market

crab apple! ha!

New England Farmgirl

This summer I help orchestrate a 450-member CSA at a farm in Dracut, MA. It was an exciting summer, full of washing and packing and driving. I also got to help run our stand at a bunch of farmers markets all over the greater Boston area. I worked with wonderful people and learned a lot of Spanish words for all our various vegetables. It was a wonderful FRESH start back on the east coast.

15 October 2009

My Big Move

I moved into the Garden Street house this past August to live with my friends Austin and Missy in community. They bought this house over three years ago. They completely revamped the inside to have 6.5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, and huge awesome community kitchen, dinningroom, livingroom, and den. We live here with two other folks who work in Lawrence. We're a cozy little community. And we love visitors!