Archive for the ‘garden’ Category

Stuffed Shells

Is the food blog back?В  We’ll see, but for now, here’s something: my first ever stuffed shells!В  I’ve been wanting to make these for a while and finally assembled all the ingredients.В  The roasted tomato awesomesauce was part of the large quantity I put by in the freezer last summer, the chard was from the [...]

June 20, 2011   Posted in: farm share, garden, pasta, tofu, tomato, un-dairy  No 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. These two [...]

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 I came up [...]

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 EVERY [...]

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, and delicious. [...]

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 had discernible [...]

August 28, 2007   Posted in: appetizers, farm share, garden, recipe, tomato  One Comment