Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
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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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
This is another take on Asian turkey meatballs. The additions of hoisin, soy sauce, and ginger really made them even more flavorful and delicious. I roasted about a pound of shiitake mushrooms that I'd wiped clean and stemmed right alongside the meatballs and warmed up some roasted summer ...
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Sunday, August 21st, 2011
After a great week of weight loss, I definitely earned some oysters :-) This week there was a new variety at Central Market. These beauties are Evening Cove Oysters. These are a sub-set of the Penn Cove oysters that I've tried before and enjoyed. They ...
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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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Monday, August 15th, 2011
Inspired by this recipe from Eating Well via cooking.com, tonight's dinner was quick smoked chicken thighs. I was pleasantly surprised that the smoke did indeed flavor the meat, even with such a short cooking time. I only marinated for 20 minutes as my grill heated up, and this ...
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
A really easy, fast, and cheap dinner tonight. I'm just wiped out, and wouldn't have even bothered with this if the pork chops didn't need to be used today. :-P As it is, this was not much more effort than warming something in the microwave, ...
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Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Yet another great box this week :-) Lots and lots of summer squash - I've roasted some along with beets for veggie tonight, I'm going to stuff some of them, grill some of them, and goodness knows what else. I love squash! One of the flowers ...
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
This is a beautiful, light, fresh pie that's just perfect for spring and summer. It can be made with just about any type of berry. The recipe originally appeared in the May 1986 issue of Sunset magazine. My mother found that adding gelatin made the pie set up ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
Week #8 of my CSA. The summer squash is coming in full force now - I got 3 different types :-D The peaches are juicy and lovely too.
This week's haul:
Flowers
Lettuce-Green Bibb
Summer Squash-Mixed Ball x2
Squash-Romanesco x2
Summer Squash-Magda x2
Peas-Sugar Snap
Peas-Snow Peas
Cucumbers-Slicing
Beets-Red Ace x2
Peaches
Apricots
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