Posted in Food on Nov 3rd, 2009 2 Comments »
The 2009 CSA season is drawing to a close and, as usual, I had lots and lots of vegetables hanging out in my refrigerator. One of the easiest ways to use up 10 lbs. of turnips, carrots, beets, squash, onions, and garlic? Vegetable broth. I started with this recipe and […]
Posted in Food on Aug 7th, 2009 No Comments »
While a lot of farms around here have been hit with blight and tomato crops have been wiped out completely, we are still getting a good amount of beautiful heirloom tomatoes. It’s the months of flavorless, cardboard-tasting tomatoes that make one truly appreciate the delicious and sweet taste of fresh summer tomatoes. We […]
Posted in Food on Jul 22nd, 2009 2 Comments »
Now that we’re really into summer, we’re getting lots of carrots, beans, squash, cucumbers and even some tomatoes. One of our favorite dishes is risotto. Nearly any vegetable can be thrown into a risotto and we made a carrot and beet risotto, topped with some Parmesan cheese. I picked up some quail eggs […]
Posted in Food on Jul 2nd, 2009 2 Comments »
Even though I’ve slacked a bit in posting about our CSA, we’ve actually been keeping up pretty well with the food we’ve been getting each week. The only food we struggle with are turnips. We’re drowning in turnips. I’m not a huge fan of the taste, and I need to do some research […]
Posted in Food on Jun 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Week two of our CSA brought more of the same leafy greens. We weren’t too creative this week, as we just sauteed up a bunch of the greens and put them on a pizza. And while that may sound somewhat healthy, we ended up using a Paula Deen recipe for the sauce. I […]
Posted in Food on May 21st, 2009 1 Comment »
Last year, I tried posting about the different foods we got weekly at our CSA. It was hard… I wasn’t able to find time every week to even use all of the vegetables, let alone post about it. Now, I’ve got a 7 month old and I’ve got the delusional thought that I’ll somehow […]
Posted in Food on Sep 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Well, my weekly CSA updates quickly turned into barely-monthly-updates. Last night, we made apple crisp to use some of the apples we’ve been getting every week. We haven’t touched our vegetables in the last three weeks, and they’ve been piling up in our refrigerator. I decided to make use of as many […]
Posted in Books, Food on Aug 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Julie Powell
After turning 30, and hitting something of a third-life crisis, Julie Powell decides to take on a project very few sane people would attempt. She dubs the project, the “Julie/Julia Project” and sets the lofty goal of cooking all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” in 365 days. […]
Posted in Food on Aug 1st, 2008 No Comments »
We hit a bit of a bump in the road with our CSA. We were also on vacation, but, basically, the week or so before vacation, we were pretty much all veggie and greened-out, so we gave away a lot of our food. We returned from vacation and were greeted with some new veggies - not the same old leafy greens we had been eating for the first several weeks. We got eggplant, […]
Posted in Food on Jul 4th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m rolling the last two weeks into one post. We had a busy couple of weeks and weren’t able to get to our veggies as much as we have in the past. We haven’t been getting any spinach, although we’re not lacking in leafy greens! We still got lots of kale, Swiss chard, […]