Julie | August 31, 2010

A crowd-pleaser from my childhood: baked balls of stuffing mixed with onion, spinach and melty cheese.

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Tags: bake, bread, greens, mozzarella, spinach

Julie | August 23, 2010

Chard stems and okra pickled in vinegar are my contributions for this week’s Preserve the Bounty challenge.

Category: Appetizers, Foodblog Events, Sides, Snacks, Veggies and Salads | 1 Comment »
Tags: chard, garlic, greens, okra, pickle, preservation, vinegar

Julie | August 21, 2010

Home-cured salmon isn’t nearly as scary or complicated as I thought it would be! We loved this gravlax with scrambled eggs, in corn soup with okra croutons, and straight off the board.

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Tags: bagel, corn, curing, dill, egg, farmer's market, fry, okra, salmon, salt

Julie | August 18, 2010

Barbecue beef sandwiches with my homemade sauce and sandwich rolls, and coleslaw with a dressing made from homemade mayonnaise and yogurt—self-sufficiency can be a beautiful thing.

Category: Baking, Dinner, Sides, Veggies and Salads, World Cuisines | 1 Comment »
Tags: barbecue, boneless ribs, braise, bread, cabbage, carrot, coleslaw, mayonnaise, rolls, sandwich, Southern, spread, yeast

Julie | August 16, 2010

In the second week of the Preserve the Bounty Challenge, we preserved fruits and vegetables in fat and oil. My approach was three flavorful compound butters: basil, peach-praline, and tomato-garlic.

Category: Foodblog Events, Fruits, Sides, Veggies and Salads | 2 Comments »
Tags: basil, broil, butter, cucumber, drying, pancake, peach, praline, preservation, salmon, saute, spread, tomato

Julie | August 15, 2010

My first batch of cucumber pickles, lacto-fermented with fresh garlic and dill.

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Tags: cucumber, dill, farmer's market, fermentation, garlic, pickle, whey

Julie | August 12, 2010

Peach butter is transformed into a sweet and tangy barbecue sauce for slathering on roasted chicken. I rounded out this Southern-inspired meal with braised collard greens and super-cheesy potatoes.

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Tags: barbecue, braise, Cheddar, cheese, chicken, cream, greens, Gruyere, peach, potato, roast, sauce, Southern, spread

Julie | August 9, 2010

My very first attempt to lacto-ferment cabbage into sauerkraut, as part of the Preserve the Bounty challenge.

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Tags: cabbage, farmer's market, fermentation, nourishing, preservation, salt, whey

Julie | July 30, 2010

Chicken breasts with a creamy almond sauce and an accompanying hash of potatoes, morel mushrooms, and fresh fava beans.

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Tags: almond, chicken, farmer's market, fava bean, mushroom, onion, potato, rosemary, shelling beans

Julie | July 21, 2010

Tucking golden beets into a creamy porcini mushroom risotto with sage-buttered salmon was an excellent way to acclimate my palate to their earthy flavor.

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Tags: beet, porcini, rice, risotto, roast, sage