Nearly a week after Thanksgiving, with a pile of turkey still left over, I am starting to disguise it so it doesn’t taste like we’re eating the same thing for days on end. No more potatoes, gravy, stuffing for us, preferring instead to lighten things up a bit. Not that this salad is all that [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Curried Turkey Waldorf Salad
Posted in Apple, Chicken, Salad, tagged Curry in Waldorf Salad on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Braised Chard Stems and Potatoes
Posted in Greens, Potatoes, Vegetable gratin, tagged Chard stems on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have the good fortune of having my in-town garden full of chard following a season of heartbreaking local crop failures due to an exceptionally wet summer, a hurricane and flood, and a freak October snowfall. Yikes. I love being able to step out into my garden, which has followed organic principles for years, and [...]
Oven-Roasted Garnet Yams with Cinnamon and Garlic
Posted in Spice Rack Challenge, Sweet potato on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The organically grown baby “garnet yams” in our local produce market were just too good to pass up. I roasted them, slightly covered in olive oil and lightly salted, in a 350-375 degree oven, accompanied by whole garlic cloves and chopped stick cinnamon. They were ready in 15-20 minutes. I thought I would share them as [...]
Cinnamon Pickled Grapes and a Refreshing Grape Shrub
Posted in Appetizers, Grapes, Preserving, Preserving with Plagemann & Fisher, Spice Rack Challenge, tagged Pickled grapes, Shrub drink, Spice Rack Challenge on November 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Getting ready for the year-end holidays, I decided to pickle a new batch of grapes with a cinnamon stick and simple syrup made of sugar and vinegar. Brilliantly easy, provocatively mysterious yet delicious, the grapes can be served with pâté, meats and poultry, and probably with a root vegetable terrine of some sort. They’re addictive, [...]
Roasted Cauliflower and Leek Soup with Cheese Dipping Sticks
Posted in Cauliflower, Leeks, Soup, Uncategorized, tagged Cheese crouton sticks, Roasted cauliflower soup on November 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Cauliflower is among the few local crops that astonishingly have flourished despite the horribly wet growing season that rotted the majority of the fall harvest. Purple, green, orange and white heads of cauliflower are mounded in the farmers’ markets and even in the local grocery store, where they are specially called out as local. I [...]
Waste Not Want Not – Getting the Most from Your Food: Apple Jelly with Thanksgiving Herbs or Spices
Posted in Apple, Herbs, Preserving, Thanksgiving, tagged Making jelly from apple scraps on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After peeling and coring eight organically grown apples for a Thanksgiving pie and sprinkling the slices with the juice of a fresh lemon to keep them from browning, I had a pile of leftovers that could have gone into the garbage can or the compost heap, but why? They make the perfect combination for jelly. [...]
Fish Curry Sri Lankan Style
Posted in Fish, Stews, tagged Fresh fish curry on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our local market recently had fresh albacore tuna from a fisherman whose boat, the Frances Anne, sails the Atlantic from Barnegat Light. This is close enough from here to be considered “local,” though of course the sea makes it anyone’s guess how far. Whenever I can, I purchase just-caught fish from day boat fisherman, and [...]
Homemade Seasonal Granola
Posted in Breakfast, Grains, tagged Making granola on November 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There’s nothing store-bought that I’ve come across that matches homemade granola. It’s crazy to think of spending 4-5 times the cost of the ingredients to make an inferior product. Especially when making your own is a cinch. Granola comes in all kinds of assortments, a veritable kitchen sink of ingredients. Rolled oats (organic preferably) constitute [...]
Chicken in Salsa Verde: Quesadillas and Enchiladas
Posted in Appetizers, Chicken, Salsa, Tomatillo, tagged Quesadillas with salsa verde on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
With the abundant tomatillos and poblano peppers at the end of the growing season, I made great salsa verde two ways: roasted in a hot oven and gently poached on the stovetop. I had lots of chicken meat from a roast chicken, and the last bit of cilantro from the garden, so I made a [...]
Salsa Verde Two Ways: Roasted and with Ground Cherries
Posted in Appetizers, Ground cherry, Husk cherry, Salsa, Tomatillo, tagged Roasted salsa verde, What to make with ground cherries on November 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
During the last weeks of October, leading up to our Halloween weekend snowstorm, we were harvesting ground cherries and tomatillos in considerable volume, a quart of tomatillos a week, or more if you could use them. Also in abundance at our CSA were ground cherries. Sometimes referred to as husk cherries, these are sweet-tart fruits [...]
