I haven’t been very inventive with the asparagus this spring. This is the most creative I’ve gotten so far – just a quick and simple asparagus soup with chives and herbs. The bed is waning now, I picked less than 3/4 of a pound this afternoon, and there’s not much more coming in. I hope [...]
Posts Tagged ‘vegetables’
Taming of the Spear
Posted in Food and Cooking, Gardening, Harvesting, tagged cooking, Fruit and Vegetable, Gardening, harvest, vegetables on 2011/05/27 | Leave a Comment »
Another Slaw
Posted in Food and Cooking, tagged cooking, Fruit and Vegetable, seasonal cooking, vegetables on 2011/05/14 | Leave a Comment »
I bought a kohlrabi at the farmers’ market this week, since mine didn’t grow. I’ve only tasted them, never really cooked with them at all, and I wanted to try it. The only thing that came to mind was a slaw. I’ve found you can grate up almost any vegetable and put it in a [...]
More Winter Vegetables
Posted in Food and Cooking, Harvesting, tagged cooking, Fruit and Vegetable, Gardening, harvest, vegetables on 2011/02/03 | Leave a Comment »
I finally got around to digging some winter leeks.I should have taken a photo of the uncut leeks to show you. I grew “Lincoln” in the spring, these are “Musselman”, they’re short and squat, but very tender and mild it turns out. I decided to make a tart – actually a galette, with some left-over [...]
Rooting Around in the Kitchen
Posted in Food and Cooking, recipes, tagged cooking, recipe, root vegetables, strudel, vegetables on 2011/01/06 | Leave a Comment »
Root vegetables seem to be a great winter comfort food. Maybe it’s the way they’re prepared, but there just seems to be something more satisfying about these earthy specimens than there is with say, green beans or some of the lighter fare. One of my favorite ways to prepare them is in a baked hash. [...]
Winter’s Waning Variety
Posted in Food and Cooking, recipes, tagged Brussels sprout, cooking, recipe, Spaghetti Squash, vegetables on 2011/01/04 | Leave a Comment »
Is it just me, or does it seem harder to come up with new ways to prepare winter vegetables? The only winter squash variety I have left is spaghetti squash. I’ve been trying to find more creative ways to use it (besides as a pasta replacement), but so far I’ve just been making favorites from [...]
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