Even before I challenged myself to eat as locally as possible during the winter months, I favored the fruits and vegetables of cold months, eschewing zucchini and eggplant and tomatoes as summer fare. Citrus and celery fall into the chosen group. Citrus is obvious since it is abundant in the south. Celery maybe is less [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Orange-braised Celery
Posted in Celery and celeriac, Citrus fruit, tagged Orange braised celery on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Dark Days 15 Vegetarian Challenge: Pumpkin Polenta with Kale
Posted in Corn, Dark Days Challenge, Greens, tagged Pumpkin polenta on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For more information, go here to the DDC section of Not Dabbling in Normal’s website: Dark Days Challenge. In which I serve a satisfying pumpkin polenta on a bed of kale, another in a series of [...]
Red Cabbage and White Bean Soup
Posted in Beans and legumes, Cabbage, Soup, tagged Red cabbage and beans on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Comforting flavors for a cold and blustery day, an old standby adapted pretty liberally from Marcella Hazen’s The Classic Italian Cookbook. That’s another book that I quite literally cooked my way through, looking for authentic Italian recipes and methods. The first few times I made this, the beans and sausage turned an alarming shade of [...]
Lentils with Sour Cherries, Bacon and Blue Cheese
Posted in Beans and legumes, Preserving with Plagemann & Fisher, Salad, Stone fruits, tagged Ottolenghi lentil salad on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Bursting with sweet, sour, smoky and salty flavors, this salad is a riff on a delicious-sounding recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi (The Cookbook), I used my home-pickled sour cherries instead of his dried cherries, vinegar and sugar. A new crop of cherries is still months away, but I’m already plotting what to make with them based [...]
Dark Days 14: Hungarian Pork and Sauerkraut Goulash
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Pork, Stews, tagged Cooking with sauerkraut, Hungarian goulash with sauerkraut on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For more information, go here to the DDC section of Not Dabbling in Normal’s website: Dark Days Challenge. In which I make a spunky Hungarian goulash and learn how to make homemade sour cream… This has [...]
Seafood Chili
Posted in Beans and legumes, Chili, Seafood, Uncategorized, tagged Seafood chili on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This is the season of the dried bean. Soups, stews, chilis and chowders, and even a few salads and sides have benefitted from the addition of these nutritious legumes. That’s how this seafood chili originated. I had cooked the last of Rancho Gordo Yellow Indian Woman beans that we brought back from the famed San [...]
Waste Not Want Not: Using Bean Broth
Posted in Beans and legumes, Soup, Waste Not Want Not, tagged Using bean broth on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Stewing pots of dried beans and chickpeas and lentils all winter yields nutritious legume broth that is simply too good to pour down the drain. I save it for soups and stews including shellfish chili that I made on Super Bowl Sunday. Here, with some leftover cooked red beans from Cayuga Pure Organics, a regional [...]
Dark Days 13: Root Soup with Cheese Wafers and Slaw
Posted in Celery and celeriac, Cheese, Dark Days Challenge, Parsnips, Soup, Turnips and rutabagas on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For more information, go here to the DDC section of Not Dabbling in Normal’s website: Dark Days Challenge. In which I make a garnished root soup that combines hominess with sophistication… I need to clean out [...]
Dark Days 12, Part 2, Valentine’s Day Challenge: Lemon Verbena Ice Cream, Cranberry Sorbet and Maple Candied Cranberries
Posted in Cranberries, Dark Days Challenge, Dessert, Sorbet, tagged Valentine's Day ice cream dessert on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For more information, go here to the DDC section of Not Dabbling in Normal’s website: Dark Days Challenge. In which I pull out the stops to make an all-local delectable fancy dessert, much to my surprise [...]
Dark Days 12, Valentine’s Day Dessert Challenge: Pumpkin Flan
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Dessert, Pumpkin, tagged Pumpkin maple flan on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For more information, go here to the DDC section of Not Dabbling in Normal’s website: Dark Days Challenge. In which I caramelize local maple sugar and bake a yummy pumpkin flan for dessert Looking forward to [...]
