Archive for the ‘Vegetables’ Category
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
This easy fresh salsa goes great with many Mexican and Latin dishes. Being allergic to raw onions, my salsa has none, and I'm in the camp that thinks cilantro tastes like soap, so I use a bit of flat leaf parsley instead. This has just a bit of ...
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Monday, September 12th, 2011
This is the latest iteration on my Italian Stuffed Zucchini, which I made this weekend. I'm finally really happy with the balance of tomato flavor in the filling :-)
Italian Stuffed Zucchini Boats
Serves 4
4 medium or 2 huge zucchini, about 4 lbs
For the filling:
2 tsp olive oil
20 ...
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
This spicy stew used up the leftover chile rubbed pork from last night. You could easily make this from scratch as well, just cut a pork tenderloin into bite sized chunks and toss it in the rub I made last night and brown up the pork pieces for a ...
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
All the tomatoes are starting to come in, so I got several varieties this week :-)
This week's haul:
Flowers
Peaches x2
Oregano
Sage
Rosemary
Lettuce-Green Bibb
Spinach-Cut Baby
Tomato-Yellow Roma
Tomates-Red Zebra
Tomatoes-Brandywine
Tomatoes-Sungold x2
Squash-Romanesco x2
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
This is an original recipe that turned out quite well. I was feeling like a Mexican sort of rub for the pork and happened to have some fresh jalapenos from my CSA box, so they got thrown in the mix. The fruity heat was a great touch and ...
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Another beautiful CSA box this week. The squash is getting more and more abundant. I'll have to start baking with some of it soon :-)
This week's haul:
Flowers
Peaches
Lettuce-Baby Heads
Lettuce Mix
Tomatoes-Farmer x2
Summer Squash-Mixed Ball x2
Squash-Romanesco x2
Squash-Raven
Summer Squash-Magda
Hot Peppers-Jalapeno
Broccoli
Beets-Red Ace
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
To welcome my parents to the Pacific Northwest, we stopped by Central Market and picked up some great looking seafood that we proceeded to grill up along with some of the ubiquitous and delicious CSA summer squash. We got a nice fillet of sockeye salmon wild caught in Alaska, ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
This week, my folks are in town for a bit to help us eat our bounty :-)
This week's haul:
Flowers
Peaches x2
Free-Range Eggs
Lettuce-Green Bibb
Tomatoes-Farmer x2
Squash-Gold Rush x2
Summer Squash-Mixed Ball x2
Squash-Romanesco x2
Squash-Raven
Beets-Red Ace x2
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Tonight's recipe is strongly inspired by the wonderful blogger Krista of Everyday Mom's Meals. Go check her out! I won a drawing on her Facebook page the other day and got 5 hand written recipe cards chosen by me from recipes on her blog. They arrived today, ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Another great box this week from Growing Washington. More summer squash bounty, some gorgeous tomatoes and mushrooms, beautiful baby lettuce, yellow potatoes, and juicy peaches :-)
More itchiness from the flowers, but since the only common element was the lilies that I suspected last time, I just ...
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