Month: August 2012

[singlepic id=232 w=320 h=240 float=left] Last week while I was visiting my folks my mom asked me to make dinner one night. I decided to make something simple because I wanted to be able to spend the day visiting not cooking. What I chose to make was Grilled Garlic Basil Pork Chops and a Southwest […]

It is the second to last week of the summer CSA. I’m splitting the box this week with friends who’ve been watering our garden for us while we were on vacation. In my half I ended up with acorn squash micro greens zucchini purple hull peas cucumbers eggplant jalapenos I’ve never dealt with purple hull […]

The summer CSA is coming to a close. Only three week’s left! This week we got: watermelon butternut squash bell peppers cherry tomatoes cucumbers microgreens zucchini banana peppers sweet corn mustard greens Supposedly this is the end of the sweet corn so I need to make the most of it. Maybe I’ll make a roasted […]

So zucchini has been a prominent feature in the last two week’s CSA boxes and I’ve been having trouble using it up. The classic answer to “what do I do with so much zucchini” is make zucchini bread. However, there were two reason this wouldn’t work for me. I needed vegetables to go with my […]

I’ve been getting a CSA box since the spring and some weeks I can’t use up all the vegetables. This often happens because I’m going out of town for work or there is just a plethora of one thing. To deal with this I’ve been using measures that my mother and grandmother taught me growing […]

I was planning on making grilled pork chops and vegetables for dinner tonight. However, when I got home from the gym thunder was starting to rumbling which didn’t bode well for outdoor cooking. When it rains here it POURS and it looked like we were going to have a monsoon style downpour. Luckily I have […]

[singlepic id=228 w=320 h=240 float=left] I got figs in this weeks CSA box and decided to make a couple galettes with them. I seriously needed redemption after last week’s Cherry Galette mishap. I had acquired fresh flour so that was a non-issue. However, I confidence was slightly shaken because rolling out the crust last time […]

It is CSA box pick up day again and as usual each week is an adventure. This week I got: eggplant butternut squash cherry tomatoes cucumbers zucchini bell peppers jalapenos peppers figs The big hurray! of this week is the eggplant which I’ve been seriously craving. Saturday afternoon I’m going to fire up the grill […]

If you have an inexpensive, fatty and chewy piece of meat to cooking you can uses a variety of techniques to make it tasty. A few techniques that I use are marinating, slow cooking or a combination of the two. In the winter time slow cooking is probably your best option. You can do this […]

[singlepic id=227 w=320 h=240 float=left] Tonight I had intended to make breaded chicken breast and some grilled vegetables but after a very long work day I just wasn’t up for pounding and breading the chicken. So I decided I’d make Pasta Primavera with Chicken instead. One of the things I like about this type of […]