Last month I made some beef stock from bones ordered from Farmers Fresh. It’s been my most successful stock experience to date. I think the secret is putting the cooling stock in the fridge over night so that it’s really easy to skim the fat. I used a beef stock recipe from simplyrecipes.com. In addition [...]
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Beef stock footage
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA, Recipes on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leafy lo-mein for lunch
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA, Recipes on March 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Friday’s lunch was lo-mein with shrimp, eggs, Brussels sprout leaves, broccoli leaves, and celery leaves. (And onion and garlic from Kroger, but that’s less interesting.) Lo-mein is great for using up scraps. Often my lo-mein-like dishes are made with stems from various vegetables from recent CSA deliveries. But over the past couple of weeks, I’ve [...]
Variation on a theme: Bordeaux spinach, dried figs, and walnuts
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA, Recipes on February 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last night we tried a new variation on the “Kale with raisins and pine nuts” recipe – Bordeaux spinach with dried figs and walnuts.
Vegetable pancakes!
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA, Peasanthood, Recipes on February 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This week I increased my peasant dish repertoire with Korean vegetable pancakes (Pa jun) suggested by Kitchen Kung Fu. There were many different recipes on line, and they all said pretty much the same thing: pretend you’re making blueberry pancakes and swap the blueberries for sliced vegetables. Well, that’s not quite what they said. Close, [...]
Ah, nuts.
Posted in Peasanthood, Recipes on February 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Walnuts have become a staple in my house after we bought an enormous bag at Sam’s so that I could make biscotti Christmas gifts. Even after all the baking, we still had a couple of pounds of shelled walnuts. Thinking, “We’ll never get through that many walnuts,” I’ve used them in everything I could [...]
Bon voyage, The Minimalist!
Posted in Recipes on January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“The Minimalist” column in The New York Times has been one of my favorites for years. Like in his cookbook How To Cook Everything, Bittman proposes general notions that encourage understanding and experimentation rather than the rigid perfectionism of set recipes. Now after more than thirteen years, “The Minimalist” is coming to an end. To [...]
Fall/Winter meal planning: Cabbage
Posted in Recipes, Tips on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cabbage is a wonderful thing. Once you meet a local cabbage, you look at cabbage completely differently. It’s a vegetable with great flavor and texture. And a cabbage is a good friend when you find it weeks later in the back of the crisper. Peel off a layer or two, and you’ve still got a [...]
Gussied-up ramen
Posted in Recipes on December 5, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Today we had ramen noodles with two eggs and some veggie parts: I sauteed the veggies in a little peanut oil before adding them to the soup. During the last minute of cooking, I stirred in the two eggs, beaten. Here’s the fairly good-looking result. Sadly, it’s not as good as it looks. Shiitake stems [...]
Tomato-basil pasta with wilty basil
Posted in Recipes on November 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So storing the basil in water on the counter hasn’t worked so well for me. My leaves never perked up as this site suggested they would. Explanations for failure include 1) I didn’t trim the stems the first time before putting them in water, and 2) it’s chilly in my house because we’ve held off [...]
Broiled eggplant rounds with goat cheese, tomato, and basil
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA, Recipes on August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last night, Chris and I had a supper of broiled eggplant with goat cheese, fresh tomato, and basil. I followed this recipe except I cut ¼ inch instead of ¾ inch rounds (whoops!) and used basil in place of all the other herbs.
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