allez cuisine!

Chris and I recently joined our local co-op, which is actually a big, fancy natural foods store that also sells Fluff and Cheez-Its and exclusively hires cashiers who refuse to bag your groceries. But if we work four hours a month (either at the co-op or in the community), we get a 12% discount, so I spent this afternoon helping to prepare for the Junior Iron Chef competition, the theme ingredient of which seemed to be root vegetables. Let's just say that at 2:00 this afternoon I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between a rutabaga and a parsnip, and now I know that neither appears to be edible. I do not envy the Junior Iron Chef competition judges.

kitchen stadium, champlain-valley-expo style