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. The dark days can be delicious. The duck breasts that I had left from my duck carving and [...]
Archive for the ‘Potatoes’ Category
Dark Days 7: Love a Duck Part 2, Duck Breasts, Cooking with Duck Fat, and More Cherries
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Duck and other poultry, Potatoes, tagged Cooking with duck fat, How to cook duck breasts on January 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Dark Days 5: Sea Bass Stuffed with Tarragon-Braised Leeks
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Fish, Leeks, Potatoes, Uncategorized on December 28, 2011 | 1 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 What a catch! When my husband came back from the shore with a couple of just-caught fish, I [...]
Dark Days 3: Vegetarian “Shepherd’s Pie”
Posted in Cabbage, Dark Days Challenge, Leeks, Potatoes, tagged Vegetarian shepherd's pie on December 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. See more here: http://notdabblinginnormal.wordpress.com/dark-days-challenge/ Now that title’s an oxymoron for you. Shepherd’s Pie is so called because it was originally made with meat from the herd — lamb or mutton to be exact — minced and topped [...]
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 [...]
Gingered Eggplant, Tomato and Potato Stew with Green Beans
Posted in Eggplant, Potatoes, Tomato, Vegetable gratin, tagged Eggplant tomato potato stew on October 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The aroma and taste of this hauntingly delicious vegetable stew comes from the combination of ginger and tomatoes, punctuated by the deep and lingering spice of fresh cumin. Distantly Indian, simple but complex, and definitely more-ish, this is one of those memorable dishes that certain members of my family request whenever they come for a [...]
Cooking with Color: Tomato-Calendula Salad and Blue Potatoes with Beets
Posted in Beets, Flowers, Potatoes, Salad, Tomato, tagged Calendula salad, Edible flowers, Potato and beet salad on July 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I admit that I play with my food. I love compositions and juxtapositions on multiple levels — color, taste, texture, size, cut and so on – with intuitive, spontaneous, of-the-moment combinations of ingredients on hand. Summer’s bounty provides a wide palette, a basketful of opportunities to compose. There are amazing chefs throughout the world [...]
Paper Chef 59: Barbecued Quail with Cabbage Cucumber Slaw
Posted in Cabbage, Chicken, Paper Chef, Potatoes, tagged cabbage with miso dressing, Cooking quail on July 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
July here on the East Coast U.S. means hot days with long lasting light, when we often cook outdoors for informal gatherings of friends and family, with meals served in our garden. As the sun goes down, the oil lamps and candles are lit, and we watch fireflies flitting across the flowers and grass. These [...]
Dark Days Week 14: Celeriac and Potato Gratin
Posted in Celery and celeriac, Dark Days Challenge, Potatoes, Vegetable gratin, tagged Celeriac gratin, Dark Days Challenge on March 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
With daylight savings time upon us, the dark days don’t seem so dark anymore, except in the food department. We are still diligently working away at our plentiful roots and winter squash, among many other local provisions put away in the mad stash of late fall. This lovely, aromatic combination of thinly sliced celeriac and [...]
Vegetable Beef Hash (or hold the beef)
Posted in Carrots, Potatoes, tagged Vegetable beef hash on February 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We don’t eat a lot of beef to start with and when we do make a pan roast or a pot roast, there’s inevitably some left over. Over the years, I’ve developed a hash that uses the extra meat and is so delicious that it should be the ideal that stew aspires to be. The [...]
Dark Days Week 8: Frittata Meets Torta
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Greens, Potatoes, Vegetable gratin, tagged Dark Days Challenge, Vegetable frittata on January 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Endlessly seasonal, the frittata makes a great meal. It is basically an open-faced omelet, eggs mixed with cooked vegetables and sometimes cheese, cooked very slowly in an open pan, then finished under a broiler, or not (since we don’t have one). This is a great asset during the Dark Days. I made a lovely local [...]
