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October 23, 2009
Fall Frost
Have you had to pull your summer vegetable plants? We pulled ours a couple weekends ago and were left with copious green tomatoes:
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- Tags: Locally Grown Produce, Recipes
September 29, 2009
In the Fall Garden
I love the autumn, I really do. In the hot summer months, I crave to have the windows open without oppressive heat and humidity sneaking into our house. When the weather cools and we can open our windows again, I am a happy camper.
(Side note: despite autumn arriving last week, our weather is just now starting to turn fall-like. I just don’t like having the A/C running when the calendar says late September.) [more]
- Tags: Locally Grown Produce, Gardening
September 23, 2009
For the Love of the Tomatillo
Before I met my good friend Jenn, I had never heard of a tomatillo.
Haven't been introduced yet? A tomatillo looks like a small green tomato, covered in a thin husk. But when you cut into a tomatillo, it reveals:
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September 18, 2009
Braised Red Cabbage
My father-in-law's family is from Germany, so perhaps that accounts for my not being surprised when Sweet Pea Husband (SPH) said to me the other day, "you know what I would love to have sometime soon? Braised Red Cabbage." Since we still have one last red cabbage from our last CSA delivery, I'll be whipping this up for our dinner tonight. [more]
September 14, 2009
The CSA is now MIA
How was your weekend? Despite a tough loss Saturday night for my beloved Buckeyes, we had a great weekend in Sweet Pea-ville. One of the “icing on top” aspects of the weekend was the gorgeous weather. If I could press pause on the weather cycle at September, and leave it there most of the year, I would be a happy camper. [more]
- Tags: CSA, Locally Grown Produce
September 8, 2009
Salad Bliss
We're back from our visit to Grandma and Papa's house, which always is a treat. They live right on the water, and their home looks out on the water from almost every room. Something about looking out over the water instantly relaxes and renews me. I wouldn't call the drive to and from the East Coast relaxing and renewing, but the boys did relatively well and we're ready to start a new week. [more]
August 27, 2009
Roasted Vegetable Pizza Sauce
One of my favorite way to sneak in extra vegetables is by making big batches of homemade pizza sauce. Actually, you can use this sauce for pasta, lasagna, eggplant parmesan or anything that requires a marinara-type sauce, but we call any sort of marinara "pizza sauce" to help encourage R and G to eat it. They love pizza; tomatoes and vegetables, not nearly as much.
But tomatoes and vegetables abound in this simple pizza sauce. You can somewhat alter this recipe to what vegetables you have on hand, but you need to keep the base of this sauce tomatoes, or the flavor suffers. [more]
August 20, 2009
Stuffed Peppers and Tomatoes and Squash, Oh My!
Our extra tomatoes, peppers and zucchinis were put to a good use for dinner the other night. It was a fun way to use our produce and made for a really scrumptious adaptation of our meatball recipe.
We used our favorite meatball recipe, Houston Meatballs, but with ground meat, not turkey.
Instead of shaping into balls, we took some fresh tomatoes, pepper and zucchini and hollowed them out: [more]
August 13, 2009
Garden Calzones
Between our garden and our CSA, our produce drawers overfloweth.
Here's a fun way to use vegetables, with the added bonus of them being "hidden" in a calzone (read: picky eaters might be more apt to eat them).
You can use any combination of vegetables you wish, even customizing each calzone as you make it. We used our favorite homemade pizza dough, but commercially made dough works great too. [more]
August 6, 2009
Fresh Vietnamese Chopped Salad
I love recipes like this one. It is fresh and tasty, healthful, but best of all, is easily adaptable to whatever vegetables you have on hand in your kitchen.
This recipe uses an authentic Vietnamese ingredient, fish sauce. It is pungent, but beautifully flavorful when used in small amounts. It tranforms any recipe into an instant authentic Asian recipe when used.
For an easy dinner, take this chopped salad and top it with a grilled protein or tofu. Yum.
Fresh Vietnamese Chopped Salad
5 cups chopped vegetables
(we used:
3 cups fresh corn kernels [more]
