Fruits & Vegetables
Cheesy Carrot Rutabaga Ring
This recipe is based on a dish from McCall’s Cooking School. My mother enhanced the original with garlic and Parmesan cheese—everything’s better with garlic and Parmesan, right? It is now a holiday favorite, enjoyed even by carrot haters! Despite its fond place in our hearts, I had never made the dish, intimidated by chopping up … Continue reading
Ginger Glazed Oranges
The fruit arrived shortly before Christmas… a case each of grapefruit, cara-cara oranges, tangelos and mandarins. All organic and sent to Wisconsin from Florida via our CSA. The excitement was palpable. Kids and grown-ups tore into citrus with abandon. By the end of January it was passé. Now truly, this is how eating seasonally works. … Continue reading
Cranberry Apple Crisp… Au Natural
Sweet and tart are a marvelous combination. The tart refreshes, while the sweet pulls you into its magic. The ultimate fall blend may be apples and cranberries. Even the colors cooperate—pale apple flesh setting off crimson berries. An easy way to meld these tastes is apple cranberry crisp. For efficiency, I’ve even stopped peeling the … Continue reading
Beating the Heat: Pot Roast From an Improvised Summer Kitchen
This summer is one for the record books. With extremes of heat and drought across the country, the living is anything but easy. I am happy to be living in Wisconsin where things are less brutal, but I do have one serious concern. I am addicted to cooking–and cooking heats up the house. I have been … Continue reading
Amazing Potatoes (au Gratin—no Cheese!)
I spotted this recipe while blog browsing. I was in search of one final potato recipe for the last of 2010’s harvest and this looked so inviting. It came with the far more romantic name of Pommes à la Dauphinoise (which I will never remember, even after writing about it), and caught my eye for … Continue reading
CSA Beets: They’re Ba-ack
Last winter I commented on the challenge of finishing the beets from my CSA. As one of the last remnants of summer, they languished, in the basement refrigerator, inspiring simultaneous fear and guilt. My solution at the time—a chocolate beet cake—was not a hit, though it was good for a few laughs and a story. … Continue reading
A Nemesis Undone: Kale Chip Recipe
Everyone has their Achilles heel… their albatross… their cross to bear. In my case, the scourge is… fall vegetables. No, not the old standards like lettuce and spinach and squash, but rather the slightly odd interlopers like kale and celeriac. In September it all comes to a head and I think back to the CSA party where a … Continue reading
The Pea Shoot Phenomenon
I have apparently been missing a sensation. As a reader indicated last entry, pea shoot recipes are everywhere! So I cast aside my doubts about this CSA newbie and went web surfing for enlightenment (and tips). Many of the online recipes have an Asian flair, and in the end I decided to adapt my kid-favorite … Continue reading
The Real First Sign of Summer: CSA Delivery
Forget the robins. For me it isn’t summer until the CSAs deliver. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. This is a system where members “subscribe” to a farm, then receive a share of the harvest throughout the growing season. The first of my CSAs to deliver is … Continue reading
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