I am unnaturally obsessed with vegetables, but even I know that most people don’t get too wound up about the root vegetables that locavores in northern climes are working their way through this time of year. I also think we should all give up on the word Rutabaga altogether, and follow the Euro lead in [...]
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The vegetables of winter: Turnips and Swede
Posted in Cooking, Cooking techniques, Farm Box, Food, Good stuff, tagged CSA on February 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
One tiny chicken, three+ dinners
Posted in Cooking, Cooking techniques, Farm Box, Food, Good stuff, tagged CSA on January 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
You know, if I were to write a parody of Real Simple and other magazines aimed at over-scheduled upper-middle-class suburban moms (and those of us who will no doubt be OSUMCSMs (catchy) in a few more years, heh) I would probably focus the food section on how rotisserie chickens are The Answer! To Everything! And [...]
Bubble and Squeak
Posted in Cooking, Cooking techniques, Farm Box, Food, Recipes, tagged CSA on January 19, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I’m obsessed with Jamie Oliver‘s show Jamie at Home, and have saved nearly every episode on my DVR (messy!). This might sound ridiculous, but this is the only modern cooking show I’ve seen that captures a bit of Julia Child’s spirit: Jamie is having so much *fun* and is so relaxed and human on camera [...]
Embarrassment of riches
Posted in Cooking, Family, Farm Box, Food, Home, Recipes, The Apartment, tagged CSA on January 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So here’s a problem I’ve never had before and doubt I’ll ever have again: We are the owners of too much steak. We received generous and delectable assortments of steak from two sources in the last six months, and our small freezer drawer was beginning to get a bit unruly. We gobbled down two of [...]
CSA: Winter shares 2-4, the wrap-up
Posted in Cooking techniques, Farm Box, Food, General, tagged CSA on January 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Since my cooking was pretty patchy and my posting even patchier as the end of the year drew nigh, I’m just going to post the last three mondo Winter CSA Share allotments all at once. Most of this stuff stores well; I have loads of potatoes, onions, garlic and squash in the pantry, and the [...]
CSA: Winter share 1 and Ben’s killer meatballs
Posted in Cooking, Farm Box, Food, Recipes, tagged CSA on December 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I decided to prolong the CSA season with a winter share: four heavy payouts every other week in November and December. Here is the first installment, which nearly killed me as I biked it home in a backpack: -Winter melon (it developed a sketchy spot and died a sad death within a couple days, sigh.) [...]
CSA: Week 20, end of the season and a dinner party
Posted in Cooking, Farm Box, Food, General, Home, tagged CSA on December 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
So the end of October (for shame, Kate!) marked the end of the regular 20-week CSA season. I signed on for the winter share, as well, so I’m still getting vegetables bi-weekly until Christmas. -2 apples -1 kohlrabi -1 ear popcorn -Carrots (Mostly cropped out of the photo on the right by the stupid, stupid [...]
CSA: Week 19, what to *do* with carrots
Posted in Cooking techniques, Farm Box, Food, Recipes, tagged CSA on November 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
So many carrots. But first, the week’s haul: -1 butternut squash -1 head of cabbage -3 leeks -3 hot peppers -4 white potatoes -3 daikon radishes -1 bunch arugula -Carrots. At this point the carrots were starting to panic me. I had received them most weeks since august, and while we’d tried to eat carrot [...]
CSA: Week 18, Carrot pants
Posted in Farm Box, Food, Home, Recipes, The Apartment, tagged CSA on November 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Heeeeee hee hee hee hee. See anything interesting? Let’s zoom in: Carrot Pants! Hee!!! Ahem. The goods: -1 rutabaga -1 bunch beets, with lovely greens (purples!) -2 red onions -2 apples -Salad greens -Sweet potato fingerlings -Carrots, including Carrot Pants. I still had the kale from the week before, plus the lovely, lovely purple greens [...]
CSA: Week 17, still playing catch-up
Posted in Cooking techniques, Farm Box, Food, Recipes, tagged CSA on November 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Once again, unrelated produce and recipe contents. The goods: -Popcorn!! Currently curing on the wall. Apparently you can put an ear in a paper bag in the microwave and it will all. pop. off. This is unspeakably exciting to me.) -2 white, 1 purple turnip -Assorted peppers -1 small bunch kale -1 sad, sad little [...]
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