For a few weeks, I made peach muffins with the beautiful peaches from my CSA share. (Chris and I aren’t big fans of the fresh peach.) But then I started getting a hankering for cobbler. I wanted to combine the convenience of muffins with the yumminess of cobbler. After browsing through some recipes, I didn’t [...]
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Muffin-sized mini-cobblers!
Posted in Recipes on August 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Making vegetable stock (a.k.a. clearing out the freezer)
Posted in CSA notes, Recipes on August 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The idea Sunday, I pulled out all the vegetables I’d frozen over the last several months and made vegetable stock. I left a couple of bags of blanched green beans, a bag of chopped celery, and a bag of corn. Everything else got thrown in the pot. The ingredients The frozen assembly consisted of spinach, [...]
5 ideas for melons
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA, Recipes on July 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
1. Watermelon salad The combination of watermelon, sweet onion, feta cheese, mint, and vinaigrette makes a perfect summer side dish. I’ve also read you can sub in other melons like cantaloupe and honeydew for the watermelon, but I haven’t tried that yet. I will say that this salad is best eaten the same day. If [...]
Plum upside-down cakes!
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA, Recipes on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My plums from last week became individual plum upside down cakes from Simply Recipes. First, I sliced the plums. Then I peeled them. Probably should have reversed these two steps.
Squash muffins
Posted in Recipes on June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Squash muffins I made these squash muffins last year after seeing the pictures at Kitchen Kung Fu. The recipe is from the 7/22/09 CSA newsletter. Ingredients * 2 cups all-purpose flour * 1 tablespoon baking powder * 1/4 teaspoon salt * 2 tablespoons granulated sugar * 2/3 cup grated yellow squash * 1 egg, beaten [...]
Freezing eggs
Posted in CSA notes, Recipes, Tips on June 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Did you know you can freeze eggs? It’s a bit of a process but really useful when you suddenly need an egg or when you need a bunch of yolks or whites. The first step is separating the eggs. While there are tools that help with this, I find it easier to use my hands. [...]
Egg custard!
Posted in CSA notes, Recipes on June 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Chris and I have a new love – egg custard. I’ll make three servings in the morning whenever I’m planning vegetarian meals. Then we have one each that night for dessert and split the third at breakfast the next morning. Here’s the basic recipe. It’s quick and easy without a lot of fuss. It evolved [...]
Made goat cheese, and it’s really good!
Posted in Recipes on June 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Hey, look – I made goat cheese! I followed this recipe from Gourmet Sleuth, paraphrased here.
Emergency goat cheese biscuits
Posted in CSA notes, Recipes on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of people have asked about the emergency goat cheese biscuits I made the other day. So here’s the deal. The emergency part just means I didn’t roll out the dough and cut it. They’re also called drop biscuits.
Tofu joins the ranks of foods that aren’t that bad
Posted in CSA reports, Farmers Fresh CSA, Recipes on April 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I made the tofu from last week’s delivery a few nights ago and was pretty happy with it. Here’s what I did. To prepare it for cooking, I squeezed it a little as described in How to Cook Everything. I cut the brick in half at the equator to get two thinner bricks. Then I [...]
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