Um…do you ever get all excited about a picture of a recipe, only to read the ingredients and realize you totally misinterpreted what you saw in the picture? Yeah. I found a beautiful picture of salmon kebabs this week and did a little dance about how pretty the squash medallions looked with the salmon and […]
CSA Week 12: Niçoise Salad with Seared Tuna
I looked in my fridge this week and almost had a panic attack. It has finally hit me…the overwhelming overabundance of veg. You know, when I told my friends that I was joining a CSA for the summer, anyone who had ever done a CSA before me immediately commented that although it was a fun […]
I got several big, beautiful tomatoes last week in my CSA box…but then I went out of town before I could use them! I was afraid they would go bad sitting on my counter, and I would return home to a sticky, moldy mess—plus no tomatoes!—so I stuck them in the fridge. FYI: Don’t put […]
Corn! Corn! It’s here! And lo and behold, I also got a poblano in my box this week (along with several ears of corn, a watermelon, potatoes, grapes, several beautiful tomatoes, and a cucumber). It was a perfect storm of amazing, because I have been waiting to share this pizza recipe with you all summer. […]
CSA Week 9-10: Gazpacho
The first time I ever had gazpacho, it was more like a mealy pureed tomato than soup. I decided gazpacho wasn’t worth my time and promptly forgot about it. But last week, with three cucumbers and one beefsteak tomato in the same CSA box, I got to thinking. When three more tomatoes and a bell […]
Dear Great Country Farms CSA Share, I guess I owe you an apology. You were right. There is a place for cucumbers in my life. Like in tzatziki. And gazpacho. And tabbouleh, which I also hated prior to this summer. We have an uneasy friendship, don’t we, CSA share? For weeks, I’ve wanted to stop […]
What is the difference between a stromboli, a calzone, and a pizza? At least the way I understand it, the pizza is flat (duh), the calzone is a pizza that has been folded in half and pinched together at the seams, and a stromboli is a pizza that has been rolled up into a spiral […]
CSA week 8 brought some surprises! Swiss chard, for one. I thought that was just a spring treat, but here was a beautiful, purple-leaved bunch staring up at me! This week’s box also contained four cukes (augh!), a pattypan squash, peaches, two heads of garlic, a baby dill plant, and about a pound and a […]
Veggie “Gyros” with Tzatziki Sauce
Day 3 of working through cucumbers like they are going out of style. Which, of course, they aren’t. Because there are still 6 of them in my fridge. Eek! But this combination is one I will be returning to over and over, even when I am not desperate to put an end to a plague […]
So…we’ve been getting a ton of beets from our CSA. In week 6, we also received peaches, snap peas, about a million squashes (yikes!), young broccoli, and a beautiful head of lettuce. Remember how sad I was that greens season was over? When I saw that lettuce nestled in the corner of my box, I […]