The night you pick up your CSA share consider establishing pizza night. The idea is that you plan on supper being a hands-off, household favorite that everyone enjoys. Your pizza night could be as simple as a frozen pizza. You could go out to your favorite Tex-Mex place. Pick up barbecue sandwiches. Or order in [...]
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CSA tip: Establish pizza night
Posted in Tips on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
CSA tip: Err on the side of prepping too soon
Posted in Tips on March 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
For the ultimate in fine cooking, you would wait to prep all of your ingredients until just before cooking. But, let’s face it, if we were dealing with the ultimate in fine cooking, someone else would be prepping your ingredients. By prepping, I mean things like washing, peeling, dicing, and the like.
CSA tip: Start in the spring
Posted in CSA notes, Tips on February 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Considering joining Farmers Fresh CSA or another Atlanta CSA program? Now’s the time. Spring is the best season to get used to preparing local produce for one reason: Salad.
Market credits: a CSA alternative?
Posted in CSA notes, Farmers Fresh CSA, Farmers Markets, Tips on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes, you just can’t swing a CSA subscription. Your schedule is too crazy. Your household is too small. Your score on this CSA-readiness assessment is too low. If this is you, consider a different kind of commitment to a local farm and yourself – buying market credit. You can think of market credits as gift [...]
CSA tip: Know thyself
Posted in CSA notes, Farmers Fresh CSA, Tips on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
CSA program turnover is a problem: people get excited about the idea but don’t really know what’s required. So let’s look at the ideal CSA subscriber and see how close you get.
CSA tip: Cook like a peasant
Posted in Farmers Fresh CSA, Peasanthood, Tips, tagged CSA on January 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
One way to get more out of your CSA subscription and keep your CSA kitchen sustainable is to collect dishes that are flexible, easy, and veggie-intensive. It’s not hard to do – dishes like this exist in every food culture and have the following characteristics: high vegetable to meat ratio (perhaps infinite) infinitely variable in [...]
Tips for a sustainable CSA kitchen
Posted in CSA notes, Farmers Fresh CSA, Tips, tagged CSA on January 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sustainability doesn’t stop at the farm. Joining a CSA is neither sprint nor short-run performance – it’s a lifestyle change. (You’re not doing it just because it’s trendy, right?) Check your dreams of instant local food bliss at the door. There’s simply too much work to be done. Is your operation sustainable? It’s a good [...]
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 [...]
How not to use a corn stripper
Posted in Tips on August 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
While cleaning upon our return from vacation, I stumbled across the instructions for the corn stripper. So I totally see now how Kitchen Kung Fu got gored. These instructions are dumb and dangerous. I must have either missed or ignored them because here’s how I’ve been doing it. First, shuck the ear, but don’t remove [...]
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. [...]
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