Simple and In Season

Posted on Jun 19, 2009 in Blog, Recipes | 0 comments As my CSA vegetables arrive each week, I get excited thinking of what new foods I’ll discover (this week I got kohlrabi, which I’ve never had before, and can’t wait to try), and what new recipes I’ll get to make. Yesterday marked my third week of veggies from my CSA and so far it’s been so so wonderful! Lettuces, kale, rhubarb, strawberries, peas, and so far my most...
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A Smörgåsbord!

Posted on Jun 5, 2009 in Recipes | 3 comments Man, the past few weeks have been busy! Preparing for workshops, birthday celebrations, (mine and others), and a whole collection of other things have distracted me from posting about my most favorite thing… FOOD! What follows is a selection of three notable things I’ve made since my last kitchen post. Clearly I’ve made and eaten much more than these three things, but these were...
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Scattered, But Delicious

Posted on May 6, 2009 in Blog, Recipes | 0 comments This weeks meals were a bit odd, pieced together from random bouts of inspiration, with nothing tying them together other than their going into my mouth, and me enjoying them. My ‘weekend in the kitchen’ was pushed back a few days to mid-week, as I was eagerly looking forward to spending time with some very good friends of mine who were in town visiting. While I would have loved to...
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Baking Bread – The Long Way

Posted on Apr 27, 2009 in Blog | 0 comments Despite being fairly confident in the kitchen making all kinda of dishes, sweet and savory, bread… really GOOD bread, has always eluded me. While I know that bread baking is an art form in and of itself, and that people study their whole lives to make a perfect baguette, I simply want to make GOOD bread. Not great, just good. Every time I try to make bread, it end up tasting like it was...
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Weekends in the Kitchen

Posted on Apr 20, 2009 in Blog, Recipes | 1 comment I cook pretty much every weekend. I love getting up early, and setting up for an afternoon of yummy smells, and even yummier tastes. Some weekends I’m more inspired than others, and this one was pretty great. I started Saturday morning with a slightly modified version of the Apple Cake recipe from Joy of Cooking. I had a bunch of apples on hand, which had me jonesing for some sort of baked...
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