- red tropea onion
- green and purple bell peppers
- lemon basil!
- kohlrabi
- mesclun
- green beans
- beets!
- honeydew
- apples
- zucchini
- cucumber
- garlic and tomatoes*
2007-07-25
Week 10
2007-07-21
Well, that’s one way to put it
But that’s just a little crude, don’t you think?
To make the [abstinence-only] point, Mr. Love grabbed a tape dispenser and snapped off two fresh pieces. He slapped them to his filing cabinet and the floor; they trapped dirt, lint, a small metal bolt. “Now when it comes time for them to get married, the marriage pulls apart so easily,” he said, trying to unite the grimy strips. “Why? Because they gave the stickiness away.”
2007-07-18
menu
- crêpes with corn and golden beets, goat cheese and ricotta; served with steamed green beans and carrots, and beurre blanc; cantaloupe-basil sorbet
- thai eggplant curry, sticky rice
- zucchini tacos
- spaghetti with overgrown arugula, broccoli, and walnuts
- chicken paprikás with cucumber-onion salad
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
Cool tool of the month: regexhibit
Regexhibit matches regex using perl, and provides all kinds of details about the match / capture groups. Previously I would test regexes (regexen?) in SubEthaEdit, but this does it on the fly. Very handy indeed!
2007-07-16
“exquisitely ugly”
In just a few years, the exquisitely ugly shoes known as "Crocs" have spread around the world like a Paris Hilton sex tape, giving rise to an epidemic of croc babies and their more egregious counterparts, croc parents. (Slate article)
2007-07-11
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!
Menu
This week the CSA box was big, but we also had plans for someone or other to come over on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. So I had to supplement with a few extra exciting things.
- 4 cole slaws: szechuan [with broccoli, cabbageturnip, chili oil, sesame oil, and a bit of soy sauce], thai [with basil, mint, peanuts, tomato, chile, and lots of fish sauce], american [with creamy mustardy dressing, peas, and raisins], hungarian [with onion]
- the lamb kibbe I've been meaning to make for a month. The ground lamb is now defrosted.
- sautéed zucchini with lemon and garlic
- tabbouleh
- caldo verde or caldo gallego (some soup with chorizo/chouriço and kale)
- corn fritter of some kind (probably a couple kinds, with onion or zucchini)
- tofu marsala with lots of mushroomy goodness
- omelet with bacon and mushrooms (and a touch of chile paste)
2007-07-05
2007-06-29
CSA week 6!
- cabbageturnip!
- 3 zucchini
- carrots
- green onions
- spinach
- broccoli
- red leaf lettuce
- more nappa
- [Paul Friday] strawberries & “flamin’ fury” peaches
- [growingpower] tomato
2007-06-21
2007-06-20
recipes not to lose
I was figuring out what I would do with my basket of white currants from Nichols farm, and settled upon an Austrian dessert that first I found a picture of, but then struggled to find an appropriate recipe. I wanted to make sure to have an appropriately moist cake, a layer of berries (not baked so they burst), and meringue. A baked together meringue cake looks good for another time when I want to make pastry cream. Not related: I also ran across a turkish dish with eggplant that looks tasty.
CSA Week 5
- 1lb broccoli
- big white radish+greens
- small bunch red radishes
- carrots
- bok choy
- turnip greens
- [mick klug] cherries
- mesclun
- [nichols] white currants
- scallions
- lettuce
- giant head of nappa
- basil!
2007-06-18
yesterday's day of mexican cooking
here, a trio of salsas. We made tortillas, three fillings, sauces, and drinks.
2007-06-15
A nicely set table; two food pics
My flash isn’t digital-ttl capable, so I have to shoot all my flash shots manually (a useful exercise anyway, I suppose). Here by accident I had it on “high”, ISO 500, 1/125 f/5 (40mm). I especially like how the wood spatula handle floats against all the white.
Perhaps less interesting than the picture: this is two chinese preparations of choy. On the left, japanese bekana or tokyo choy is cooked with water chestnuts and cubed frozen (spongy) tofu, in oyster sauce (or, as Scott prefers, “brown” sauce) with scallion, ginger, and garlic. On the right is bok choy with carrots in a gingery miso sauce with honey. Both were delicious last night and for lunch today.
a varied dinner party menu
- fresh tortillas
- Masa for whatever other antojitos we want to make (sopes anyone?)
- Pork-raisin-almond-chile filling (see below)
- Shredded chicken filling
- Beans with pork
- Fresh and cooked tomatillo salsas
- Tomato salsa
- Guacamole
- Zucchini and avocado carpaccio with herbs (inspired by last week’s Bittman column – oh, to be Patricia Wells…)
- Someone: bring crab, please
- jeweled rice
- lamb kibbe (see below; I was going to make it before this lovely article in the Times. I suppose I’ll cook some of it, though I do prefer my Prairie Grass Farm lamb raw.)
- mouhamara (which I learned today is the top web search the lands people on my blog)
A very happy surprise!
A friend is rushing out of town and called to offer us two tickets he had to tonight’s performance of Verdi’s Requiem by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra!
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