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12/15 green onions, carrots, and broccoli!

December 15, 2010 by Susan

beautiful, slender carrots and lettuce

These carrots would be gorgeous steamed with butter and parsley. Or raw as snacks or in salad.

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green onions and Bordeaux spinach

The green onions smell so good and will be great in salads, stir fries, or grilled. Tomorrow or Friday at the latest, we’ll have a wilted spinach salad. I’ll cook some bacon and crumble it and then quickly sauté green onions in the grease. Then I’ll dump the bacon bits and onions in leftover salad dressing, heat it, and then pour it over the spinach. Continue Reading »

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Tacos and cottage pie: a tale of a pound of ground beef

December 11, 2010 by Susan

Defrosted a pound of local ground beef this week. Half of it went into tacos, and the other half, cottage pie.

Tacos

The lettuce and tomato from last week along with the locally made taco mix from a week or so before had me thinking tacos with ground beef.

Here’s our taco bar:

beef seasoned with taco spice mix, chopped tomatoes, caramelized onions, and lettuce

No sour cream 😦

The tortillas are from Kroger. They’re nutty and filling and better-tasting than most flour or corn tortillas. Continue Reading »

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Fall/Winter meal planning: Cabbage

December 10, 2010 by Susan

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 lovely head of cabbage. That’s what happened to me last year. Chris and I enjoyed every bit of that head of green cabbage.

Green cabbage

Green cabbage has a tightly-wrapped, round head and can last a long time in the fridge. Here’s an extraordinarily large example of green cabbage from last year in the center of this pic.

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And here are the two best recipes we’ve found for green cabbage. Continue Reading »

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Wacky produce

December 10, 2010 by Susan

Here’s some wacky veggie fun from the people at the Farmers’ Fresh store:

a duck, a snowman, and mice wearing hats?

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And last night, Chris remarked that our butternut squash bottom looked like a conspiracy theorist wearing a tin foil hat.

Of course, right after this picture was taken, he was put in a 350 degree oven for an hour.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.

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12/8 Bordeaux spinach, cilantro, and eggs

December 10, 2010 by Susan

So glad to have produce even in this weather!

radishes, hakurei turnips, sweet potatoes, and apples

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cauliflower and Bordeaux spinach

I was never a fan of cauliflower until I started eating the local stuff. Continue Reading »

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Gussied-up ramen

December 5, 2010 by Susan

Today we had ramen noodles with two eggs and some veggie parts:

Tuscan kale stems, Shiitake stems, and garlic

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 I’ve used in stir-fries with heavy sauce, and the sauce covers the bitterness of the stems. Not so with ramen soup.  Other mushroom stems are fine, but Shiitakes are too bitter. Next time, they’ll join the compost pile, and I’ll use some of the dried oyster mushrooms from the freezer instead.

Other than that, the soup was okay, although I wish I’d chopped the kale finer. It was hot soup on a cold winter afternoon, and we ate all of it.

I plan on doing more ramen soup experiments. Usually when I think of vegetable soup, I think of an afternoon’s undertaking making a whole stockpotful. This is a nice way to have a bowl or two of vegetable soup with some random vegetable pieces.

 

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12/1 Hooray for hoop-houses

December 3, 2010 by Susan

We finally turned our heat on yesterday. It looks like it might stay cold for a while now, and one can only so many sweaters and hats without feeling silly. Thankfully, farmers are smarter than Chris and I, and they’ve kept things warm on their farms with greenhouses and hoop-houses.

First, here’s what came with this week’s dinner for two package from Farmers’ Fresh.

Asian roots and greens

baby pac choi, daikon radish, and Asian turnips

Komatsuna greens

 

I’ve been cooking greens in our standard manner of sautéing with raisins and walnuts. Then the stems end up in either a stir-fry or a casserole along with the roots. They also might be nice in a chicken soup. Or even diced fine and added to a bowl of ramen. Continue Reading »

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Cafe 10:10 Farmers’ Market in Douglasville Thursday 12/2

December 2, 2010 by Susan

Don’t miss this new farmers’ market in Douglasville!

Every Thursday from 4-7pm (Winter Hours)
Crossroads Church
5960 Stewart Parkway
Douglasville, GA 30135

For more information contact us at: cafe1010market@gmail.com or visit them on Facebook.

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Fall meals I: greens, winter squash, and lo mein

December 1, 2010 by Susan

A lot of people think of summertime vegetables when they think of local produce – bright shiny tomatoes, corn, green beans, and more.

But I think fall produce is way yummier: salads, greens, and winter squash. It’s also much more pleasant to “slave over a hot stove” when the days are cooler and the nights are cooler still.

So here are some recent autumnal meals we’ve had with local produce from Farmers’ Fresh. They’re repetitive, but we love them. If you’ve been overwhelmed lately with greens and winter squash, maybe this will provide some inspiration. Continue Reading »

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Douglasville Farmers’ Market Grand Opening

November 19, 2010 by Susan

Yesterday was the official opening of the Douglasville Farmers’ Market hosted by Crossroads Church at 5960 Stewart Parkway, Douglasville, GA 30135. The market’s founders, Marie Crowe and Lynn Hagerup, came up with the idea on one of their walks.

Lynn's on the left; Marie's on the right.

Both are devoted to eating more local and healthy food and decided they were tired of leaving Douglasville to find it. Continue Reading »

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