It's very difficult to look back and remember what we got more than a week ago. i should write it down, but ironically i'm really lazy about certain things.
we got (i think): plumbs, eggs, cantaloupe, potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, watermelon, oregano, cucumber, garlic, zucchini, onion, lettuce, cabbage, swiss chard.
we at the cantaloupe for breakfast and watermelon as a snack. and i'm sure that i made a sandwich or two with lettuce and tomato on it.
the highlight of the week was making a huge dinner for several peeps with my gf. i was able to actually use some of my cookbooks and find recipes based on what i had. we steamed the edamame from the week prior and salted it to eat as an appetizer. a cocktail was made out of vodka, lemon, the cucumbers and mint from my "garden". for dinner, we had a buffet of eggplant/tomato (the dish from the last post), cucumber/yogurt/mint salad, red cabbage slaw, a squash bake made from a recipe that my gf's mom gave me (had eggs, tomato, zucchini and some of the frozen squash from weeks past), a green salad containing lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and corn, roasted potatoes with rosemary from the "garden" and finally, for dessert, a plumb crisp using all of the little plumbs. there was also bread and cheese which is worth noting because who doesn't love bread and cheese.
i was very optimistic with the amount of cooking we would get done. but we managed to go for a bike ride in the am and take a one hour "nap" and we only cut out one dish. not too shabby. shoo.
on a totally unrelated but somewhat related note, doesn't everyone want to hear how gone to e dog's food making is going? you can't get much more local than that. sorry is that inappropriate?
Monday, August 23, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
The single happy thing to come out of this miserable kitchen
Due to the disgustingness (is that a word?) and tiny size of my kitchen, I have pretty much not cooked for myself this entire time I've lived in this craphole. I heated up a can of soup on the stovetop once in....October? But every cloud has a silver lining, and I'd like to share my silver lining with you.
Despite the grossness of the inside of my oven, I still wanted to eat hot foods, and thus eventually broke down and purchased a microwave where I have since heated up numerous Wegman's $6 meals. I was pretty proud of my microwave free streak from May 1998-November 2010. Oh well. But recently, I stumbled upon these Pillsbury desserts near the premade cookie dough. And I thought, "Hmmm....single serving brownie lava cake things that you put in the microwave? I own a microwave... And I could put mint chocolate chip ice cream on the brownie thing after I heat it up. Because a hot brownie with mint choc is like the best thing ever."
The rest is history. I'm not claiming that this is like a breakthrough in quantum physics or anything. But still, you're welcome.
Despite the grossness of the inside of my oven, I still wanted to eat hot foods, and thus eventually broke down and purchased a microwave where I have since heated up numerous Wegman's $6 meals. I was pretty proud of my microwave free streak from May 1998-November 2010. Oh well. But recently, I stumbled upon these Pillsbury desserts near the premade cookie dough. And I thought, "Hmmm....single serving brownie lava cake things that you put in the microwave? I own a microwave... And I could put mint chocolate chip ice cream on the brownie thing after I heat it up. Because a hot brownie with mint choc is like the best thing ever."
The rest is history. I'm not claiming that this is like a breakthrough in quantum physics or anything. But still, you're welcome.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Local Food, Made at Home Part 4
It seems that the more weeks that go by, the more lax I get in writing everything down. I think I'm two weeks behind again so we'll see how much I remember:
we got: eggs, blueberries, peaches, watermelon, onion, oregano, eggplant, lettuce, scallions, tomatoes, MORE summer squash, carrots, cucumbers, corn, potatoes, beet greens, onion, green beans
on the night that i last wrote, i made a caprese salad with the fresh tomato and some basil from my patio garden. Then made fresh pasta with pesto that I made earlier in the summer. The mozzarella and pasta I got from Capone's in union square, somerville. Capone himself recommended I get lemon linguine because it goes nicely with pesto, and he was right. Don't quit your day job, Mr Capone. I also like getting my mozzarella from Capone's because they sell Buffalo mozzarella. You can also get it at Whole Food, but, you know, he's right down the street. For dessert I made a peach cobbler from a recipe I found online. I think it was paula dean. It called for "self rising flour". did you know that this is just a mixture of flour, baking powder and salt? it is! so next time a recipe calls for "self rising flour" and you don't have any, chances are you can make your own.
i ate the rest of the peaches as a snack and the blueberries were use to make pancakes and on my cereal.
the corn was boiled and eaten along side some roasted kholrabi (from the prior week) and potatoes with rosemary. there was salmon in there too, but that was from alaska.
the rest of the corn and the summer squash were used in some veggie burritos and made another round of pico de gallo with the onion and scallions. i feel like this is a good way to use up some veggies you don't know what to do with.
the watermelon was eaten as a snack. obvi. my gf and i and my friend and i had two separate rounds of "how far can you spit the seed". i think i hit an umbrella from my patio, so that was pretty cool.
another night, i made melanzane al funghetto which is a dish i learned about when i was in italy. we would eat it for lunch with bread and cheese. the translation is something like... eggplant in a style of mushrooms". i found an example of it here after struggling with translating the italian http://www.happystove.com/recipe/80/Funghetto+Eggplants+%28Melanzane+al+Funghetto%29. my romance major gf with the italian mother was no help. i should have called julie mccoy. anyway... the major change that i made here was to add the fresh tomatoes. to go with the eggplant concoction, i got some fresh bread and locally made mozzarella (not as good as buffalo. just saying) from dave's fresh pasta near davis square. i must say it turned out really good. though it was a tad salty. i think i overdid the prep of salting the eggplant. so i traded bitter for salty. i guess i should have washed the salt off first or not gone crazy with the salt. meh. in addition to the eggplant, some more summer squash was grilled on my grill pan and some fresh cucumber cute up. LOVE fresh cucumber.
the rest of the cucumber and tomato, i ate for lunch just cut up and i made yet another round of burritos with carrots, corn and squash. maybe i should make some sort of casserole if i get more squash. just a thought. i'm kind of squashed out.
lastly, i made a 3 bean salad with the green beans and scallions (plus other non-local items). i haven't tasted it yet, but i'm sure it will taste like summer.
what i did finally taste were the pickles. SO GOOD! but apparently the magic seal wasn't really a "seal". i.e. i didn't properly do the whole sanitizing steps. but i'm not keeping it for years either. meh.
i have an overload of greens i don't know what to do with. radicchio or beet greens anyone?
we got: eggs, blueberries, peaches, watermelon, onion, oregano, eggplant, lettuce, scallions, tomatoes, MORE summer squash, carrots, cucumbers, corn, potatoes, beet greens, onion, green beans
on the night that i last wrote, i made a caprese salad with the fresh tomato and some basil from my patio garden. Then made fresh pasta with pesto that I made earlier in the summer. The mozzarella and pasta I got from Capone's in union square, somerville. Capone himself recommended I get lemon linguine because it goes nicely with pesto, and he was right. Don't quit your day job, Mr Capone. I also like getting my mozzarella from Capone's because they sell Buffalo mozzarella. You can also get it at Whole Food, but, you know, he's right down the street. For dessert I made a peach cobbler from a recipe I found online. I think it was paula dean. It called for "self rising flour". did you know that this is just a mixture of flour, baking powder and salt? it is! so next time a recipe calls for "self rising flour" and you don't have any, chances are you can make your own.
i ate the rest of the peaches as a snack and the blueberries were use to make pancakes and on my cereal.
the corn was boiled and eaten along side some roasted kholrabi (from the prior week) and potatoes with rosemary. there was salmon in there too, but that was from alaska.
the rest of the corn and the summer squash were used in some veggie burritos and made another round of pico de gallo with the onion and scallions. i feel like this is a good way to use up some veggies you don't know what to do with.
the watermelon was eaten as a snack. obvi. my gf and i and my friend and i had two separate rounds of "how far can you spit the seed". i think i hit an umbrella from my patio, so that was pretty cool.
another night, i made melanzane al funghetto which is a dish i learned about when i was in italy. we would eat it for lunch with bread and cheese. the translation is something like... eggplant in a style of mushrooms". i found an example of it here after struggling with translating the italian http://www.happystove.com/recipe/80/Funghetto+Eggplants+%28Melanzane+al+Funghetto%29. my romance major gf with the italian mother was no help. i should have called julie mccoy. anyway... the major change that i made here was to add the fresh tomatoes. to go with the eggplant concoction, i got some fresh bread and locally made mozzarella (not as good as buffalo. just saying) from dave's fresh pasta near davis square. i must say it turned out really good. though it was a tad salty. i think i overdid the prep of salting the eggplant. so i traded bitter for salty. i guess i should have washed the salt off first or not gone crazy with the salt. meh. in addition to the eggplant, some more summer squash was grilled on my grill pan and some fresh cucumber cute up. LOVE fresh cucumber.
the rest of the cucumber and tomato, i ate for lunch just cut up and i made yet another round of burritos with carrots, corn and squash. maybe i should make some sort of casserole if i get more squash. just a thought. i'm kind of squashed out.
lastly, i made a 3 bean salad with the green beans and scallions (plus other non-local items). i haven't tasted it yet, but i'm sure it will taste like summer.
what i did finally taste were the pickles. SO GOOD! but apparently the magic seal wasn't really a "seal". i.e. i didn't properly do the whole sanitizing steps. but i'm not keeping it for years either. meh.
i have an overload of greens i don't know what to do with. radicchio or beet greens anyone?
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