Came home with my CSA box today. Two pounds of the large-leafed variety that Tipi Produce grows. It made almost 2 quarts of pesto – 3 pint sour cream containers, and 2 samller containers that are probably 3/4 cup each. And a sandwich. With tomato that came in the box, too.
Tonight, to use up some of the last veggies from my CSA box, the one from two weeks ago, plus the one I got for the class last Thursday – before I get my new one tomorrow – I made Romano beans braised with tomato, and Szechwan green beans – that really messed up the […]
Last night I taught another of the use-your-whole-CSA-box cooking classes at Willy St. West, for the CSA Coalition. The box was from Tipi and it was a fun, late summer assortment. After doing these last year, we had decided that it’s be better to give the attendees the same number of recipes – 6 or […]
So, I came home from work on Monday and started cooking to use up stuff from my CSA box and Farmers’ Market. On Sunday, Mark and I went to his work’s (WiLS) 40th anniversary picnic. We took corn on the cob, grilled, with cilantro lime butter for smearing, and the nun’s cookies – a kind […]
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 […]
We are on day four of a set of perfect September 11th-type weather in WI – 30s and 40s at night, 70s in the day time, blue sky, clear and sunny. So I walked over to the student Union to get coffee and eat my liverwurst on homemade challah, on the terrace by the lake, […]
I’ve been posting recipes as WordPress pages, and the problem is it seems like I am not posting, since they don’t show up right away on the main part of the blog. There’s probably something in the settings to make them show up, but I haven’t figured it out yet. But I’ve been doing stuff, […]