Leftover Night: Local Edition
Playing blog catch-up with some light meals based on local produce from our home garden and farmers' market.
Tag Archives: farmer’s market
Notes from Above the Ground
A May garden update, and a trip to the Denver Urban Homesteading farmer's market.
Crimson Popcorn
Local heirloom popcorn is coated with a simple blend of peanut butter, honey, and sugar for a totally addictive treat like caramel corn that is neither too hard nor too gooey.
Squish, Part Two
My first encounter with the red kuri, a mild, firm-fleshed winter squash that translated nicely into both a creamy risotto and a pile of "pumpkin" pancakes. Happy Halloween!
Squish
After going a little crazy with winter squash varieties at the farmer's market, here are two squash dishes: simply roasted sweet dumpling squash, and butternut squash macaroni and cheese, with a rant about hiding food…
Doing Without
Creamy wild rice and mushroom soup is paired up with a very unusual scone recipe calling for ricotta cheese in place of butter.
In the Wet
Hitting the farmer's market in the rain, and a stir-fry of ground pork, green beans, and peppery radishes.
Basket of Bartletts
You can't beat a brown-butter cake made with pantry staples and studded with chunks of melty bittersweet chocolate and juicy pear.
A Fusion Fricassee
Fricassurry? Curricassee? Whatever you want to call this curried chicken fricassee with tender apples and salt-roasted fingerling potatoes, it makes a delicious autumn meal. Amazing where some collard greens can take you!
Purple Peas and Purple Potatoes
Purple potatoes are a colorful take on starch; plus, rockfish fillets braised quickly in a rich sauce of tomato, silky leeks, and creamy hull peas.
Purple Hull Peas
My introduction to purple hull peas, braised with bacon and onions for a Southern-style side, and steeped into purple-tinged jelly.
Outshone Again
A short discussion of farmer's market meat options and how it led to a meal of braised oxtail ragu, homemade gnocchi, and more importantly, some sublime roasted dragon beans.
Moroccan Rainbows
A satisfying meal for a rainy summer evening, these Moroccan meatballs, called kofta, are paired with a vegetable-packed tabbouleh-style bulgur pilaf and a nutty yogurt sauce.
Potential Energy
I’ve gone to the farmer’s market this summer more regularly than the past several years combined (it helps that my son is now old enough to come along on the hour-plus round-trip walk, and his…
Taking the Cure
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.
Dilly Dally
My first batch of cucumber pickles, lacto-fermented with fresh garlic and dill.
Vegetable Alchemy
My very first attempt to lacto-ferment cabbage into sauerkraut, as part of the Preserve the Bounty challenge.
One Potato, Two Potato
Sweet potato hash two ways, with two meals: Orange-fleshed with ancho, honey, and sweet corn for a Mexican-inspired meal; and white-fleshed with 5-spice and rice wine vinegar, served with Hawaiian pork.