upcoming food

• miao pork with chiles and corn
• fish-fragrant eggplant
• fragrant thai curry ground chicken and wax beans
• panch phoron potato and spinach; whole wheat couscous
• smoked cheddar macaroni and cheese; salad
• garlic, cheddar, stone ruination ipa soup (um, half recipe, 2lb of cheese wtf); pretzels

a couple constraints

I have things tuesday and wednesday to plan around so an unusually ordered list…

sunday

something thai with tasty fresh squid

monday

leftover chorizo potato soup, bread, wine

tuesday

Burns Supper chez Bob (haggis!)

wednesday

something simple after Haiti Noir (NYT) (pasta and frozen tomato sauce?)

thursday or friday

squash apple soup and some kind of bread

friday or thursday

braised turnips with mustard sauce

• aloo gobi and mooli parathas.
• curry fried rice (nasi goreng) with pineapple, tofu, snap peas. And a barely-cooked egg or two on top.
• grilled eggplant, red pepper, asparagus, over polenta, and goat cheese (I had a picture of this from a few years ago, but I can’t seem to find it)
• chicken prik khing with green beans (hopefully with extra tamarind paste if I get some)
• tofu two ways: ma po, garlic chives
• and Sunday we are making the three-course bouillabaisse from the Dean and Deluca cookbook. N&S bought shrimp and mussels. I bought many pounds of other fishes, from both Bob’s Seafood and the chinese Seafood City on Olive. There will be pictures for sure. With salad. And burnt panela ice cream.

Patatas en salsa verde

Patatas en salsa verde Originally uploaded by gay.goy.gourmet

This simple, beautiful dish surprised me. I thought it would be good, I didn't really expect great. I made it dinner, with stuffed baked mushrooms, but will absolutely serve it as a first course in the future. In exploring other variations online, I ran across a new favorite spanish food blog. Sauté an onion and some garlic in a whole bunch of olive oil. Then gently fry medium-thick potato slices for a few minutes. Add water (or stock, or many recipes say fish stock or fumet) and salt; simmer until soft; add peas and parsley and heat through.

some LTH roundup from today

• new szechuan
• spoon thai and some other thai with erik m. we have to go to spoon instead of sticky rice next time.
• spring world discussion including the secret mushroom menu

Great Neighborhood Restaurants

gmap mashup from LTH; complete text list

things to make

• green curry with chicken and eggplants
• prik khing with chicken or beef and longbeans
• leang soup with bamboo shoot, mushroom
• salad of cilantro, mint, tomato, mung bean sprouts, dried shrimp
• cabbage sprouts and tofu with oyster sauce
• a vegetable lasagna for the freezer (spinach, mushrooms, ricotta)
• smoked chicken tamales
• pan fried tofu with marsala cream sauce; salad of romaine, pomegranate, satsuma

things to make this week

• Yeast-raised cornbread
• curried celery root soup
• umbrella-cookies
• quick-fried yu choy & bekana with “brown” sauce
• assorted sweet potato things: ancho-honey; mashed with parmigiano
• garlic naan
• radish parathas

• vanilla-chocolate bread
• pumpkin mousse
• pecan tarts
• butternut squash soup

Goat curry

I haven’t made it yet but I certainly plan to soon.

Chicken Paprikás

I have been asked for my tasty chicken paprikás recipe. It's so simple a dish I cannot claim ownership – the one I learned from my grandfather is not really any different from June Meyer's excellent version here. I usually serve it with simple dumplings:

• two flour
• two eggs
• some water (half a cup? more?)

Mix in a bowl with enough water to make a medium-sticky dough. Using a large pot of well salted boiling water, cut dumplings with a spoon directly from the bowl (it will come off easily in the water). I usually do this in two or three batches, skimming them out so they are varying levels of chewy.

a delightful dilemma

• prik khing curry with chicken and long beans
• chicken and vegetables in peanut sauce
• quiche with bacon and mustard greens
• linguine alla carbonara
• roasted fennel and apple
• something with eggplant. probably thai red curry, but maybe something chinese.

And the dilemma I wish I had every day of the year: what to do with about 4 pounds of tomatoes, a meaty red heirloom variety, green zebras, and sungolds.

back in st louis foodlist

• shrimp tacos? or arroz/paella. or both.
• red curry with chicken, salad (cucumber, tomato, avocado, onion, fishsauce)
• stewed tuscan style lima beans and tomatoes, semolina bread
• cantaloupe basil sorbet
• tortilla española
• ma po tofu, jasmine rice
• corn, tomato, and goat cheese crêpes soufflées

Week 14

• cucumbers
• fresh lima beans
• eggplants, purple and white
• two more canary melons
• apples
• beets
• tomatoes
• purple and green peppers
• peaches
• garlic*
• better tomatoes*

Last week

• Purple carrots
• potatoes
• anaheim chiles
• green pepper
• tomatoes
• corn
• canary melon
• cantaloupe
• eggplant
• mustard greens
• red cabbage
• peaches

Week 12!

The wonderful Vicki, the woman who runs our CSA farm, said proudly this week, “the harvest is starting to come in!”

• Watermelon
• red leaf lettuce
• cantaloupe
• bag o’ baby lettuce
• red pimiento peppers
• green zebra tomato*
• garlic*
• eggplants
• purple cauliflower
• carrots
• onions
• cucumbers
• red potatoes
• peaches!

CSA Week 11

• mesclun
• cherry zebra tomatoes!
• blueberries (best of the year)
• green bell peppers
• [farmgirl organics] tomatillos
• cucumber
• zucchino
• cabbage
• onions
• [green acres] basil
• green beans
• beets&greens
• carrots
• cantaloupe (not pictured)

Week 10

• red tropea onion
• green and purple bell peppers
• lemon basil!
• kohlrabi
• mesclun
• green beans
• beets!
• honeydew
• apples
• zucchini
• cucumber
• garlic and tomatoes*

CSA Week 9

Half the summer still remains!

• tomatoes*
• cantaloupe
• big soup-making arugula
• mesclun
• green beans
• kohlrabi
• large and two small cucumbers
• zucchini
• cherries
• green acres thai eggplants*
• green acres carrots*
• lots of broccoli
• farmgirl organics golden beets*
• corn

Vegetable day #8

• crimini and oyster mushrooms*
• parsley*
• green onions
• the best cabbage I have ever had, picked this morning (see below, all four slaws)
• collard greens
• basil*
• corn
• zucchini
• non-chioggia Italian heirloom beets
• cucumbers large and small
• garlic*
• broccoli
• tomatoes*
• peaches!

* I bought / not in the box.

CSA week 6!

• cabbageturnip!
• 3 zucchini
• carrots
• green onions
• spinach
• broccoli
• red leaf lettuce
• more nappa
• [Paul Friday] strawberries & “flamin’ fury” peaches
• [growingpower] tomato