And this is just the stuff that gets left out on the counter – tomatoes & fruit. We also got two watermelons, potatoes, broccoli, red peppers that are already roasted, two kinds of cheese (tho the cheese is the least seasonal of all), argula and salad greens.
On Saturday I got 5 pounds of Roma tomatoes at the Farmers Market. I divided them into the ones I was going to blanch and skin and freeze – the less-perfect ones with a few more blemishes – and the ones I was going to quarter and slow roast in the oven. For dinner, I […]
This is a riff on one of Heidi’s. I had already made it once, pretty much as written, except I cooked the corn, and Heidi doesn’t. I thought about reducing the seeds, but ended up using the recommended amounts (3/4 cup each toasted sunflower seeds & pumpkin seeds). I bought two dozen ears of corn […]
It started this morning. We coulda biked to the farmers market, but I was thinking I/we would bike to the Sugar Maple Fest later on. So we drove to the market, and oh by the way, accomplished some car errands like dropping off the screen from E. Wash that the bike thieves tore, at the […]
Pesto-ify I made three kinds of pesto today: sun-dried tomato (no basil or cheese – the tomatoes, garlic, olives, fresh rosemary, almonds, olive oil); basil with pistachio nuts and the usual stuff – Parmesan, olive oil, garlic, and unusual – little bit of lemon zest; and basil with pine nuts, Parmesan, olive oil, garlic. There’s […]
Wednesday night I celebrated Rosh Hashanah by grilling pork. I was so encouraged by the success of Monday’s slow-roasted meat that I did almost 6 pounds of Willow Creek pork shoulder, with the same chile rub, so that I’d have pulled pork for pulled pork pizza tomorrow. Pizza night was fun – 12 people, a […]