Picky Eating With Pookie… And Schnookie

Okay, I have a confession to make. I have never eaten beet greens. For years I have been getting beets from the farm with big, bushy bouquets of greens still attached. For years I have been growing beets in our garden and considering them failures when they produced only tender, delicate little [...]

Preparing For The Icy Wastelands Of Winter

There are times when my enthusiasm for my farm share wanes a bit, and I let a surplus of some vegetable or another go to waste because I’m not really in the mood to deal with it before it spoils. This weekend was not one of those times. Yeah, I was a total [...]

A Cooking Update

I have had a tremendously lazy blogging week, probably because I’ve had a very feisty cooking one. I made a few new recipes this week, shook up our “in a rut” eating patterns, and then sat down with my laptop and thought, “I don’t have the energy at all to write about this”. [...]

Faux-caccia, Or: I Might Be A Crazy, Crazy Bitch, But At Least I’m Not Sandra Lee

Okay, the other night I got all creative with my farm share and winged-it with my first-ever attempt at stuffed peppers.

I had four beautiful, perfectly-shaped, giant green peppers and a fridge full of chili leftovers, so there was nothing else to be done with them. When I couldn’t find a recipe that sounded like [...]

Winging It, CSA-Style

Okay, so having a share in a CSA is a wonderful thing, but sometimes you find yourself in a bit of a jam, where you have too many vegetables that need immediate attention.

Yesterday was one of those nights for me. I had two cubanelle peppers from last week that I wanted to prepare in [...]

Baked Pinquito Beans — A Revelation

A couple of years ago Boomer and I took a two-day “BBQ Boot Camp” course at the Culinary Institute of America. One of the things we made during production there was baked beans, and it was really the first time I ever dealt with dried beans; they’d always seemed so daunting to me, but [...]

Ice Cream Byproducts, In Cocktail Form

So we’re working on making ice cream this weekend, using the blackberries from the farm (a pint) and the raspberries we’ve picked off our own canes in the last few days (about a half a pint). To ready the berries to be put into ice cream, we stirred them with a bit of sugar, [...]

Non-Picky Eating With Schnookie

You know what I love?
Beets.
They’re like magic to me. They’re so homely on the outside…

… But so beautiful on the inside.

And while I know there are all kinds of wonderful preparations a girl can make for them, I love beets at their most simple too much to bother with anything more than [...]

Is That Bulgur I See There?

Back in September, 2002 there was a recipe for Chicken and Bulgur Salad with Avocado Food & Wine that I decided to try because I happened to have a bottle of the recommended wine pairing (a 2001 Lindemans Padthaway chardonnay) on hand. This is the first and only time to date that I’ve flipped [...]

Farm Haul: It’s Starting To Look Like Summer

Last week I didn’t bother writing about our farm haul because it was more of the early-season same: buckets of strawberries and a bunch of heads of lettuce. This week, though, a bit more variety is creeping into things. As I walked out of the farm stand with my arms straining under the [...]