It’s a joke among knitters that making a project from one’s stash always requires one to go out and buy more yarn. I often feel that way about cooking with the produce that comes to me: using up four baskets of strawberries requires a cup of sugar, two cups of flour and and egg, and [...]
The greens-filled pasta was a big hit last week, so I’ve been thinking about other pasta combinations for the kale and dandelion greens I got in the last box. I was even considering making another batch of fresh pasta, but thought better of it. So I decided to make lasagne. I used to make vegetarian [...]
I am the proud owner of a Zojirushi Mini bread machine. When I’m not impulsively buying bread at farmers markets, I try to bake my own. Although I read a lot of commentary from serious bakers that bread machines are great for kneading and rising, but that they always take the dough out and shape [...]
Although I read strict locavorean accounts with interest and enjoyment, and, obviously, derive a great deal of pleasure from obtaining local ingredients, I’m not a strict locavore myself by any stretch of the imagination. And when offered large quantities of delicious food that I honestly wouldn’t buy myself, I gratefully accept. Is this hypocrisy, opportunism, [...]
I pulled up my pea plants today. There were a very few flat pods and even some little flowers, but they were basically done. It’s supposed to get above 90 this weekend, so I didn’t think there was any point in leaving them in the ground. And then I noticed that my yellow cauliflower was [...]
Thursday already? Let’s see what I got this week. Only one basket of strawberries. These will go quickly; about 1/3 of them got et up for dinner. Half dozen eggs, in the new TLC Ranch packaging! Like a real egg carton, and everything! Evidently, they don’t have too many of these, though. In this week’s [...]
I didn’t end up making a pie, because my parents had brought up a birthday cake, and it would have been all too much. But I did manage to make a meal where I had a personal connection to every ingredient except some seasoned bread crumbs and the wine from Trader Joes. Oh yeah, and [...]
Or, A Trying Day. Since much of the appeal of blogging lies in punning titles, I also wanted to work in something about a render farm. But I’ll go on with the actual blog post. This morning, I opened my 1975 edition of The Joy of Cooking to the section titled “Know Your Ingredients.” In [...]