Archive for the ‘locally grown’ Category

Pumpkin Pie (with Maple Vanilla Sauce and Maple Spiced Pumpkin Seeds)

I want to apologize for my long absence. Not only have we been having some web server problems, but the shortened days have made it very difficult for me to take pictures, since my sub-par camera means I need the sunlight. Rest assured, I have been eating well, and on the occasion of [...]

November 26, 2007   Posted in: baking, dessert, locally grown, pie, technique  6 Comments

Easy Refrigerator Pickles (Two Ways)

I love pickles and I always have. As a Jew and a native New Yorker, it is in both my nature and nurture so shouldn’t surprise anyone. Perhaps more surprising in that I’ve rarely actually made them and thus far never made my favorites, but we start simple and work our way up. [...]

November 6, 2007   Posted in: farm share, garden, pickles  3 Comments

Corn Soup (Two Ways)

For about a month, I was getting a lot of corn with my farm share. Ah, those were the days! With 12-24 ears to work with, I could make anything. Anything! Well, anything involving corn.
On the left is Chipotle Corn Soup (or maybe it needs a better name?) and is something [...]

October 9, 2007   Posted in: corn, farm share, garden, soup  No Comments

Salsa Verde (Tomatillo Salsa)

For a few weeks, we’ve been getting tomatillos in the farm share and, as strangely cool as these weird little things with their papery husks are, I didn’t really know what to do with them.  Once  had a couple of pints (which later turned into three), I knew something had to be done so I [...]

October 5, 2007   Posted in: condiments, farm share  No Comments

Rootkes

Some years back, DD’s mother passed along a recipe for Passover “rootkes”, aka latkes but with assorted root vegetables other than potato (more recently, I ran across a similar recipe on PPK). Since I’d already shredded a boatload of farm share beets, rootkes seemed the obvious choice, especially since I also had the share [...]

September 19, 2007   Posted in: farm share, recipe  One Comment

Peach Cobbler

Last weekend, my friend John gave me some peaches out of the bushel or so he’d picked from a friend’s trees. The were quite delicious, but too many to eat before they turned (especially with more peaches coming in my farm share). Being a traditional Southern gal, my thoughts immediately went to peach [...]

September 17, 2007   Posted in: baking, dessert, locally grown, recipe  No Comments

Oven-Roasted Vegetables

This is one of my staple dishes. It’s easy to make and works with any number of veggies, so it’s great for using up whatever might be around in a simple, healthy way. The only things I pretty much *always* include are onions and garlic. It’s gone over very well at potlucks [...]

September 16, 2007   Posted in: farm share, recipe  No Comments

Baba Ghanoush

I’ve been getting eggplant in my farm share (ir)regularly and though I’d take a shot at baba. I recall enjoying the dish when I was a kid, but on my second trip to Israel, when I worked as a volunteer, we were fed eggplant (usually roasted and mashed in some baba variant) just about [...]

September 15, 2007   Posted in: eggplant, farm share, garden, recipe, spreads  No Comments

Beet Carrot Salad

For a few weeks, I was receiving tons of beets with my farm share. One day I decided to shred a dozen or so, which sent me from wondering what to do with beets to wondering what to do with shredded beets. Inspiration came from pondering other available produce, which included farm share [...]

September 8, 2007   Posted in: farm share, recipe, salad  No Comments

Rosemary & Caramelized Onion Focaccia

On a beautiful summer day, I wanted some freshly baked bread so decided it was time to take my first shot at focaccia. I searched many recipes and ended up combining aspects of several of them. The result was not quite the texture I was aiming for, but it was still light, flavorful, [...]

August 29, 2007   Posted in: baking, bread, farm share, garden, recipe  3 Comments