This week’s haul was: lettuce, cucumbers, garlic, a melon, tomatoes, and peppers. The cooking highlight of last week was the Roasted Eggplant with Green Goddess Sauce from Melissa Clark’s In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite, which I already ohhed and aahed about at length in the book review early this week.
Read for the Foodie’s Reading Challenge. Melissa Clark’s “A Good Appetite” column is one of the things I really like reading in the New York Times, though I’ll fully admit I’ve been reading much less of it since they put up the paywall for their website. (2024 note: I now subscribe, and the Cooking section features
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This week’s haul was: sweet peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, cauliflower, garlic, and potatoes. We also headed to the Farmer’s Market this morning to round out the ingredients for gazpacho, which which we’re bringing to a friend’s house tonight. Here’s the pile of goodies that went into that: It’s funny, last year, we made gazpacho once, and
I happened to have taken Monday off, and since my hurricane clean up consisted of bringing my potted plants back out from the garage, I had a nice free day. (A note on Irene: we were extremely lucky here in Portland – I got off with a filthy car. BF is originally from Bennington, VT,
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This ended up being a weird week, CSA-wise. They had to cancel the Portland pick up, between some forecasted severe thunderstorms with hail (I can agree that hanging out in metal framed tents in those conditions isn’t my cup of tea), and the impending arrival of Hurricane Irene requiring them to move up the planned
So, what’s a girl to do a on a Monday night when the BF is working and she may or may not (turned out to be may) be coming down with summer cold? Make pickled jalapenos, of course! The recipe is from Ellie Topp and Margaret Howard’s The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving, and I
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Today’s haul was: kale, summer squash, cucumbers, garlic, tomatoes, jalapenos, fennel and broccoli. As a consequence, it was BLT night. And the BLTs were really, really good.
Yesterday’s haul was: corn, kale, turnips, garlic, jalapenos, green beans, Romano beans, summer squash, potatoes, and a lovely bouquet of flowers (the pick your own section at the farm must be doing really well). The corn was actually separate from my other picks, but was so nice and big and green, I had to grab
I went to the Farmer’s Market yesterday, which was a wonderfully green feast for the eyes. I actually didn’t buy that much, just some local early plums, Romano beans, and some salad mix. My main goal in going was the Romano beans, because I wanted to bulk up the .6 pounds I’d gotten from the
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Today’s haul was: scallions, broccoli, potatoes, lettuce, cilantro, cucumbers, Romano beans and green beans. In other news, I got my first tomato!! And it was delicious. Everything else is still firmly green, so I have no idea when I’ll get the next.