Archive for July, 2010
Sunday, July 18th, 2010
This was a great easy meal! I used eggs and potatoes from my CSA boxes with some thinly sliced pork chops to make a balanced meal with the side of green salad we had.
Breakfast Skillet
Serves 4
1 lb meat of your choice, cut into small bite sized pieces (I used ...
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
I did some random baking this weekend. First, a (very) "rustic" (aka, ugly) raspberry lime crostata thingy. I got a flat of raspberries that turned out to be not so great, so I stirred in about 1/4 cup of flour, 1/4 cup of sugar, and the juice of ...
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
This week's CSA Box has:
Oregano
Lettuce-Baby Heads
Squash-Farmers Choice (pattypan this time)
Squash-Farmers Choice (Italian this time)
Potatoes-Gold
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Beets-Red Ace
Fruit boxes start up next week, and tomatoes should be coming in soon. Yay!
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
This recipe comes from Cooking Light. We thought this was only okay. The sauce was tasty, but too thin to stick to the chicken, even though I made a bit of a roux before adding the garlic and liquid to the pan to help with that. The ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
This recipe is inspired by many similar ones out there. Many of them include onion, which I didn't bother with. I added more garlic instead :-D Be sure you use low sodium chicken broth. I didn't, and it was rather salty. Other than that, ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
An easy dinner for a Monday evening - flank steak seasoned generously with Montreal steak seasoning, seared on both sides in a cast iron skillet over medium high heat then moved to a 425 degree oven to finish cooking; a pound of little button mushrooms washed, seasoned with garlic powder, ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
We're into full on cherry season here, and Shaun and I have been enjoying these gorgeous Rainer cherries just on their own for dessert!
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Tonight we had some bratwursts and brussels sprouts. I usually roast them, but after trying baby turnips cooked this way, I wanted to try it with brussels sprouts too, and it turned out quite nicely.
Quick Braised Brussels Sprouts
Serves 2
1 lb brussels sprouts, trimmed and outer dark leaves ...
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Shaun's off at a concert tonight, so I've just been foraging for dinner. I found a little arugula from last week's CSA box that I wanted to use, and I wanted to cook up an egg or two from this week's box as well, so I made this very ...
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
This recipe is via Ree, of The Pioneer Woman. I had a half pound of fresh baby carrots from last week's CSA box to use, and this was a good recipe to use 'em up. I scaled way down, of course - I only used about 1 tbsp ...
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