Hi. I’m Isabel, I cook and scribble. I make a lot of food and do a lot of writing, and Bread & Courage is what I have to show for it. It started as a simple food blog called TASTE but evolved into something more—a place where I express my love of food, community and the environment. Thanks for spending some time here—and be in touch!
Today, I got a taste of the end of summer: no more Texas blueberries at the grocery store. They stopped showing up at the farmers’ market a while back, but even the farmers in cooler stretches of the state have ended their season as well. I’ve stockpiled a few frozen pints, and can honestly say [...]
Waning blueberries are always my first sign of summer slipping away. I would be sad about it, except that there are so many of my favorite things coming up now, in quantities much larger than I can accommodate… I’m known to overzealously load up on Italian eggplant, heirloom tomatoes, zucchini and basil, so watch out [...]
Baby when you call me, you can call me Sal.
When I was young, I had the good fortune of living up the hill from a blueberry patch that belonged to a place called March Farms. Just passed the farm was a pond called Long Meadow, where my family went from morning until evening in the [...]
Now that blueberries are fully in season, my mornings are better than ever. I know it’s a small dish, but I think my summer breakfast is worth sharing, especially since it doubles nicely as a snack or dessert.
1 c Greek or organic plain yogurt
1/4 c blueberries
1tbsp local honey
1/4 cup pine nuts and 1/4 c [...]
A cook who I admire sent me this recipe last summer when I told her I' d amassed 10 pounds of blueberries on a recent trip to the farm. Despite the 6 pounds I must have eaten while plucking berries from the bush, there were still too many to fit into my freezer. They were [...]
I made blueberry muffins the night before last in response to a request. Since I can only get local blueberries from the farmer' s market, these muffins were both time-sensitive and valuable…$10 for two piddley pints.
I was really nervous about the investment. I' d never made blueberry muffins before and was prepared for something to [...]
There is a layer of dried sugar along my chin. I couldn’t wipe it off while grabbing at zucchini, blueberries and tomatoes, and daring to eat a peach. I forgot to lick the stickiness off until just now. I hadn’t paid when the juice started to dribble–the farmer (the only organic blueberry producer in [...]
