Asian Noodle Salad with Napa and Daikon
Asian-Inspired Noodle Salad with Napa and Daikon This recipe deserves a bit of a backstory as well … and I’ll write a separate entry on this another day. But, in brief, over the past month or so, I’ve...
View ArticleMy CSA Challenge
From dizzying back to the future ride of the last post, we go back to the future-past: aka the Prequel. This post promises to be sweet … or forecast the sweet experiments that will follow in my CSA...
View ArticleRoasted Red-Kuri Squash Salad with Walnuts in Maple-Mango Vinegrette
Inspiration comes in all forms. In this case, it is a squash from my CSA share that has been tempting my creativity for a few weeks. I’ll confess, until this squash (delivered by agricultural storks)...
View ArticleRösti-Potato Quiche with Caramelized Leeks
If you’ve had potato pancakes (or some version thereof), love fondu, and think the inventors of raclette should simplify things by getting rid of a kitchen applicance you use once every two years, I’ve...
View ArticleMy CSA Challenge – 2013 Edition
For those of my readers that have been with me since last fall, you’ll recall that I I jumped into the world of Community Shared Agriculture (see my CSA Confession to learn more about CSA’s in general)...
View ArticleMy CSA Challenge – Share #2
If the number of recipes that emerged from week number one is any indication, the CSA Challenge – 2013 Edition is off to a great start. I’m feeling inspired and challenged and my tummy is happy. Pretty...
View ArticleCSA Adventures … Mystery #1
No, that’s not a typo — I didn’t mean CSI. That is CSA as in “Community Shared Agriculture” aka “community supported agriculture.” And perhaps this year, we can even think of it as “community shared...
View ArticleCSA Adventures … Mystery #2
Not every adventure needs to lead down a new path. In the inaugural mystery, “we” got to play with Hakurei turnips. That was a yummy adventure indeed. Next up is something that may not be as much of a...
View ArticleCSA Adventures … Mystery #3
So the next lesson in mysteries is that sometimes you have to look outside your borders to find adventure …. My challenge in maintaining this even into the third installment of the series is that I...
View ArticleCSA Adventures … Mystery #4
So this adventure series hasn’t turned out exactly as I was expecting — though I guess that is the whole point of any adventure. My let down is that it just hasn’t felt that adventurous, at least to me...
View ArticleCSA Adventures … Mystery #5
Some mysteries are supposed to be tough — so here’s one to challenge all your ardent veggie lovers out there. “Who Am I?” And no, “I am not a misshapen pumpkin… but I am a gorgeous colour inside.”...
View ArticleCSA Adventures … Mystery #6
From green, to red, from orange to yellow, the colours of the garden are breathtaking, like a dissected fall foliage that you can eat. How great is that? However, it would seem the mysteries of the CSA...
View ArticleRoasted Red-Kuri Squash Salad with Walnuts in Maple-Mango Vinegrette
Inspiration comes in all forms. In this case, it is a squash from my CSA share that has been tempting my creativity for a few weeks. I’ll confess, until this squash (delivered by agricultural storks)...
View ArticleRösti-Potato Quiche with Caramelized Leeks
If you’ve had potato pancakes (or some version thereof), love fondu, and think the inventors of raclette should simplify things by getting rid of a kitchen applicance you use once every two years, I’ve...
View ArticleMy CSA Challenge – 2013 Edition
For those of my readers that have been with me since last fall, you’ll recall that I I jumped into the world of Community Shared Agriculture (see my CSA Confession to learn more about CSA’s in general)...
View ArticleMy CSA Challenge – Share #2
If the number of recipes that emerged from week number one is any indication, the CSA Challenge – 2013 Edition is off to a great start. I’m feeling inspired and challenged and my tummy is happy. Pretty...
View ArticleCSA Adventures … Mystery #1
No, that’s not a typo — I didn’t mean CSI. That is CSA as in “Community Shared Agriculture” aka “community supported agriculture.” And perhaps this year, we can even think of it as “community shared...
View ArticleCSA Adventures … Mystery #2
Not every adventure needs to lead down a new path. In the inaugural mystery, “we” got to play with Hakurei turnips. That was a yummy adventure indeed. Next up is something that may not be as much of a...
View ArticleCSA Adventures … Mystery #3
So the next lesson in mysteries is that sometimes you have to look outside your borders to find adventure …. My challenge in maintaining this even into the third installment of the series is that I...
View ArticleCSA Adventures … Mystery #4
So this adventure series hasn’t turned out exactly as I was expecting — though I guess that is the whole point of any adventure. My let down is that it just hasn’t felt that adventurous, at least to me...
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