Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Monday, October 10th, 2011
This is another variation of my usual chili recipe, this time using skirt steak instead of ground beef. The chunks of beef were a great addition, and something I'll definitely do again, but something about this bean combination was just a bit off, so I'll try something different next ...
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
No more tomatoes, and the summer squash is just about gone too, but the winter squash are coming in :-)
This week's haul:
Flowers
Plums-Angelina x2
Pears-Bartlett
Apples - Fuji x2
Spinach-Cut Baby
Winter Squash-Cha Cha
Squash-Farmers Choice
Carrots-Orange
Cabbage-Savoy
Broccoli x2
Beets-Red Ace x2
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Friday, September 30th, 2011
This hearty crockpot meal is great for a fall day. I brought this into work for a potluck and cooked it all morning at my desk. One of our bosses is a vegetarian, so I wanted to make sure that he had something tasty and filling too ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Lots more tomatoes this week, and some more great plums and peaches as the fruit season starts to wind down. Some kale that I'm going to braise with bacon and mushrooms for a nice fall side dish sometime this week too. :-)
This week's ...
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
A light late summer / early fall meatless meal for dinner tonight. If you'd like to make this vegetarian, just use veggie broth when making the polenta. This was inspired by a couple recipes: one from Fine Cooking, and another from Better Homes and Gardens. If the fresh ...
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Saturday, September 24th, 2011
A couple days late because I forgot to upload the picture until tonight. :-P
More tomatoes this week, and trying an eggplant for some ratatouille :-)
This week's haul:
Flowers
Pluot-Flavor Heart x2
Peaches x2
Eggplant-Black Beauty
Spinach-Cut Baby
Tomates-Red Zebra
Tomatoes-Brandywine
Tomatoes-Valencia
Squash-Romanesco x2
Sweet Corn
Broccoli x2
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Saturday, September 24th, 2011
A friend of mine, Shannon, recently started selling Wildtree food products. I purchased a few items from her starting party, the Texas corn bread mix, the pumpkin quick bread mix, and the "garlic galore" seasoning mix.
I tried the garlic mix on some chicken thighs tonight, just drizzling ...
Posted in CSA, Food, Potatoes, Poultry, Product Review, Vegetables | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
This gumbo concoction is a conglomeration of many recipes out there on the web. It's a great use for leftover chicken, and could easily be adapted to use fresh chicken as well. We really enjoyed this and will be repeating it many times in the coming fall and ...
Posted in Cajun Creole and Caribbean, Food, Pork, Poultry, Seafood, Soup, Vegetables | No Comments »
Monday, September 19th, 2011
This past week I got some little golden beets in my CSA box. Tonight I sauteed them and their greens in a bit of olive oil with kosher salt. It was a great little side for the roast chicken we had tonight. :-)
Sauteed ...
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Friday, September 16th, 2011
Yesterday evening I went to a fun cooking class in Lynnwood hosted by Culinary Events Northwest and Pranee Khrusanit Halvorsen of ilovethaicooking.com. Pranee led a tour of our local H Mart, with an eye to the ingredients we'd be using in dishes later in the evening.
After getting ...
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