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Easy Peasy Apple Tart Tartin
Having ordered several pounds of apples a while back, we needed to get on using them! My daughter and I were “inspired by” (her more polite term for bastardization) a larger tart, but we decided to make individual tarts that … Continue reading
Hearty German Potato Soup (Crock Pot easy!)
I found a recipe last Fall in my Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook for German Potato Soup. I was looking for a potato leek soup to use some aging leeks. This recipe appealed to me because it had cabbage, which meant … Continue reading
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Tagged carrots, chard, crock pot, kale, leeks, potatoes, potatos, Winter CSA
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Winter CSA Box 11- More Asparagus (Let’s make microwave risotto)
This week we did not get a great deal of variety, but we made up for that with quantity. 5 more lbs of asparagus. My daughter pointed out there are no huge stalks in this shipment. Those big guys last … Continue reading
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Tagged Asparagus, brown rice, CSA, grilled asparagus, microwave cooking, onion, pickled asparagus, rice, risotto, shallots, steamed asparagus
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Loving my Purple Sprouted Broccoli – 2 recipes today
Anne from Life in Mud Spattered Boots had said my purple sprouted broccoli would wilt quickly, so I have been using it every chance I get. It has a different flavor than regular broccoli, a bit sharper. The stems are … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken, crostini, lime, omelets, Pad Thai, Purple Sprouted Broccoli, rice noodles
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Breakfast Pizza with Eggs Sunny Side Up
Sometimes, ideas on how to use my vegetables come from strange places. I receive a catalog for skin care products (huh?) that has expanded to include a few food items, and it had this recipe for breakfast pizza that looked … Continue reading
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Tagged asiago cheese, Asparagus, breakfast pizza, cheese, eggs, ham, mozzarella, pizza, smoked ham, spicah
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Bogus Hummus – no tahini
It has been several weeks since we received a shipment from the winter CSA. Then I had to have surgery that has kept me down and drugged for the past two and a half weeks. So I haven’t been involved … Continue reading
Part II of This Perfect Meal – Lemon Glazed Carrots
I love those perfect looking little CSA carrots that absolutely have to be cooked and prepared whole. Usually I roast them, but I found this recipe in Vegetable Love, and wanted to try something new. Boy am I glad I … Continue reading
Part I of This Perfect Meal – Warm Lentil Salad
On a Saturday, I had time to cook a roast and rounded the meal out with lots of my CSA bounty. My husband said not only was this a very good dinner, but he had rarely had a meal that … Continue reading
Quick Weekday dinner with Winter Squash Jam
I went back and read Farmer Al’s explanation about the squash chunks. I thought he said they were galeaux d’eysines (Deleted the darn e-mail already. Harumph!), but my chunks don’t really look like the photos I found of that type … Continue reading
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Tagged ginger, jam, mash, molasses, quick, weeknight dinner, winter squash
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Sage Asiago Popovers
We love popovers at our house, and have an old, perfectly cured, cast iron popover pan to bake them in. I have made sage popovers before and the extra flavor is exciting, so this time I decided to add a … Continue reading
