Indian cuisine has a way with spinach. Unlike other cuisines, how those dishes are prepared – and even the ingredients — are not self-evident, so I’ve been doing a little research, of course including one of my favorite sources, At Home with Madhur Jaffrey. She chops onions, garlic, ginger and red pepper in a food [...]
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Chicken with Spinach Indian-style
Posted in Chicken, Greens, tagged Indian-style spinach on May 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Seasonal Tart: Spinach, Dill and Ricotta
Posted in Greens, Herbs, Pie, Ricotta, Uncategorized, tagged Spinach ricotta tart on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I love an excess of a single ingredient that allows me to experiment. Watch what you wish for! Opening day of our CSA season brought 4 pounds of spinach and 8 large heads of lettuce into the kitchen, not to mention a pound of baby bok choy and ½ pound of arugula. All those greens [...]
Impromptu: Curried Sweet Potato, Chickpeas and Spinach
Posted in Beans and legumes, Greens, Sweet potato, tagged Sweet potato curry on May 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It was just one of those days. I came home late and my husband came home early. While the refrigerator was burgeoning with produce from the weekend’s opening of our CSA season, not to mention leftovers from last season (hard to believe, but true) and previous meals, I had no idea what to cook. I [...]
Baby Bok Choy in Garlicky Oyster Sauce
Posted in Greens on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Simple, immediate, delicious. This is my favorite way of preparing bok choy, especially when they’re young and tender, 5 inches high or so. I received a pound of the little darlings in our first-of-the-year CSA distribution. So…oo glad to have the “farm” back in our lives. This couldn’t be simpler. Clean the bok choy well [...]
Waste Not Want Not: Pickled Chard Stems and a Bunch of Ways to Use Them
Posted in Beans and legumes, Greens, Pasta, Preserving, Waste Not Want Not, tagged Pickled chard stems on May 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The weather turned reliably warm and my chard bolted. I don’t mean, found the door and vamoosed. I mean, developed thick, faceted stems and prepared to go to seed. Chard in my experience is slow to bolt, but this patch was over-wintered — first time ever for me – and it’s time. Everything else that [...]
Spring Spinach and Herb Gnocchi
Posted in Greens, Herbs, Pasta, tagged Spinach herb gnocchi on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The sweet spinach of spring heralds a growing season of bountiful greens. It is the time of year when the herbs are most tender too so the pleasing combination of spinach and herbs is a natural result. Chopped and stirred into risotto, or just rice, or here, made into plump gnocchi, the greens embody the [...]
Springtime Pasta and Beans Two Ways: Zucchini with Lemon, and Spinach with Spring Onions
Posted in Greens, Pasta, Zucchini, tagged Springtime pasta and beans on April 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
These are not your mother’s pasta fazool. But true to the peasant origins of the traditional Italian dish, they use seasonal ingredients along with some pantry staples. Just what we need as the earth reawakens in April and spinach and spring onions are found in the market or garden. I made two version of this [...]
Mustard Greens Soup with Corn and Black Beans
Posted in Corn, Greens, Soup, tagged Mustard greens on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Making this soup was a real stumble-on event. I had picked up a giant head of red mustard at the farmers’ market, not having any idea what I would do with it. Then, as I was getting ready to plant another portion of my kitchen garden, I was leafing through Sylvia Thompson’s excellent volumes, The [...]
Baked White Fish with Spinach, Leeks and Mushrooms
Posted in Fish, Greens, Leeks, Mushrooms, tagged leeks and mushrooms, Springtime fish with spinach on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In early spring, the leeks and spinach from the farmers market are unbelievably sweet and delicious. The spinach has none of that slight taste of minerals that it will later have, and it’s available in abundance. Combined with local mushrooms and locally fished flounder, they made for a flavorful and healthy supper. I have been [...]
How to Eat Your Lawn: A Salad of Bittercress and Violets
Posted in Flowers, Foraging, Greens, Salad, tagged bittercress, Eat your lawn, eating violets, edible weeds on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t weed my lawn. I eat it. One of the earliest food crops in my yard is bittercress, a member of the Cruciferae family of green plants (think mustard). It’s a pretty invasive plant that enjoys cold and wet conditions such as those we typically experience at this time of year. Reviled as a [...]
