Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
This is my take on the traditional Spanish cold soup. It's a great summer soup - a refreshing showcase for some of the great produce that's currently so abundant.
Gazpacho
Serves 8 as an appetizer or 4 as a meal
1 lb ripe tomatoes, chopped
1 medium cucumber; peeled, seeded, and chopped
1 small ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Dinner tonight was simple. I preheated the oven to 425 degrees, then sprinkled chicken thighs with salt, pepper, thyme, and cayenne and popped them in the oven. I cut up about 1.5 lbs of romanesco summer squash, 1 lb each of broccoli, cauliflower, and yukon gold potatoes, and ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
This week's box:
Free-Range Eggs
Lettuce-Baby Heads
Lettuce-Farmers Choice
Squash-Gold Rush
Squash-Romanesco
Squash-Raven
Potatoes-Gold
Cauliflower
Pluots
Donut Peaches
Cherries
Blueberries
We're loving all these veggies, especially the summer squash. We're especially enamoured of the Romanesco variety. Everything we've gotten in the boxes has been wonderful :-)
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
This week's box:
Free-Range Eggs
Sage
Lettuce-Butterhead
Squash-Gold Rush
Squash-Romanesco
Cauliflower
Carrots-Purple
Broccoli
Raspberries x2
Pluots
Peaches
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Beef and Bean Burritos
Spicy Popcorn (air popped popcorn drizzled with equal parts butter and Frank's Red Hot and a light sprinkle of salt)
Pan Seared Lamb Chops
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
For dinner tonight, I made my stuffed summer squash with some fun and delicious eight ball zucchini from my CSA box. For the side, I made tomato and cucumber salad. This was a great summer meal!
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
This recipe for butter braised cabbage was a quick and easy, but not very good side dish. All I could taste was the butter; it just overwhelmed the cabbage. I like butter, but not that much. Shaun wasn't a fan either. We won't be repeating this ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
This is a first take on the famous 40 garlic clove chicken recipes out there. I started with Alton Brown's recipe, which was okay, but I was wishing for more garlic flavor in the chicken. Next time, I think I'll add the step of marinating with a garlic ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
This week's box:
Butter Tomatoes-Sungold Cherry
Lettuce-Baby Heads
Turnips
Squash-Farmers Choice
Squash-Farmers Choice
Cabbage-Red
Cabbage-Green
Beets-Red Ace
Raspberries
Plums
Peaches
Cherries
They were short on butter this week, but got in a small harvest of gorgeous little yellow cherry tomatoes that they handed out as replacements this week, and I'll get the butter next week :-) ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Tonight's dinner was mostly a selection of great roasted veggies from my CSA box - beets, cauliflower, broccoli, patty pan squash, and one Italian squash that I missed throwing into the chicken stew. I also made a little pan of chicken piccata, skipping the flouring step, and just putting ...
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