Archive for the ‘garden’ Category
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 
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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
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
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
Tomato Bruschetta
My favorite thing to do with tomatoes is make bruschetta. I got addicted to the stuff at my favorite Italian place (Salvi Restaurant, Brooklyn, NY), where they serve it on crostini at the start of the meal along with grissini and warm bread. It was the first food I could really enjoy that [...]
August 28, 2007
Posted in: appetizers, farm share, garden, recipe, tomato One Comment