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Filed under: cooking on December 27th, 2008 | No Comments »

Heather turned to Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian for tonight’s meal of chickpeas in their own broth.  We also had some green beans and delicata squash that Heather picked up at the local farmer’s market.  Very solid and easy to prepare meal.

Filed under: cooking on October 27th, 2008 | No Comments »

Tonight I made a tagine. The main ingredients were potatoes and butternut squash, but the main purpose of cooking this meal was to take some photos with our new camera. That may be the subject of another post.

Filed under: cooking, dining on October 18th, 2008 | No Comments »

This weekend I came across a recipe for lemon verbena ice cream.  We happen to be growing some lemon verbena and had some left over cream in the fridge, so this was a natural one to try.  Lemon verbena is more typically associated with fragrances and teas, so this is certainly an unusual ice cream [...]

Filed under: cooking, garden on September 12th, 2008 | No Comments »

It’s always uniquely satisfying to construct the majority of a meal from items you have grown yourself. This is what we did on Sunday night. I made some fresh orecchiette to pair with a sauce made primarily from eggplant. Heather suggested mixing in some hot peppers, mint (I used apple mint) and ricotta salata cheese. [...]

Filed under: cooking, dining, garden on September 9th, 2008 | No Comments »

Earlier in the week Heather crafted a Foccacia-style pizza based on a recipe from Cook’s Illustrated. It was delicious, although Heather already noted some portions of the recipe that she would handle differently. Later in the week we had a Caprese salad crafted from a variety of tomatoes

Filed under: cooking, dining, garden on September 5th, 2008 | No Comments »

A salad of farro, feta, chick peas, and tomatoes & cucumbers from the garden.

Filed under: cooking, dining, garden on August 21st, 2008 | No Comments »

Here is where I show off some of the tomatoes from our garden.  We’ve got Blondkopfchen, Green Sausage, Riesentraube, and some standard grape tomatoes in the salad.  Scrambled eggs and rosemary-lavender potatoes complete the meal.

Filed under: cooking, garden on August 16th, 2008 | No Comments »

What do you do when your garden has a 10 ft. cucumber plant that turns out 1 lb. fruits daily?  You make pickles. And tonight Heather made some lentil/chickpea patties served with a peanut sauce in a pita, with a cucumber and grape tomoto salad on the side.  Quite tasty.

Filed under: cooking, garden on July 21st, 2008 | No Comments »

Earlier today, Mike alluded to our planned Asian vegetable feast with the produce we picked from our garden.  After we picked our largest veggie yield to date, we did in fact cook up a delicious Asian-influenced meal.  It was a shared cooking adventure – I prepared the cucumber salad (top right) and made myself a [...]

Filed under: cooking on July 13th, 2008 | 3 Comments »