This frigid Valentine’s weekend in Madison is also the Garden Expo. I went to demo soups, from the two MACSAC (Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition) now CSA Fairshare, cookbooks, From Asparagus to Zucchini, and Farm-Fresh and Fast. Rach is here, so she came along to be my lovely assistant. It went quite well. I […]
Over the course of the summer, I’ve done three little lunchtime sessions for CSA box subscribers at a company here that makes furnace filters and dehumidifiers – air cleaning systems, basically.They have like 40 employees who are getting CSA boxes this year. The sessions aren’t really cooking classes – I just get a box when […]
I think the only work work I did today was email. Tomorrow will have to be a different story. I taught the 2nd of the three cooking demos at Aprilaire I’m doing this summer – #1 was back in June, and #3 will be October. They’re a company here in Madison that makes indoor air […]
On Saturday, I went up to Reedsburg to assist Terese Allen with a cooking class, demoing recipes from a couple of her books, for the fermentation fest. I made green tomato mincemeat bars – moist and hard to cut, but really yummy. Too bad it was such a rainy day, but I enjoyed the drive, […]
This morning’s trip to the farmers’ market to collect the veggie box donated by Harmony Valley for my MACSAC class tomorrow turned out to be a bit of an adventure. First I debated whether to go by bike or car – I knew I had the box to pick up, and, even though I knew […]
…but not lots of pictures, and the ones I did get are of the leftovers, not the debut. On Thursday I taught a cooking class for using up the stuff in your CSA box, at the kitchen of a church on the west side. Gorgeous dining room; not so well-equipped kitchen. We made 5 dishes: […]