Leftover Night: Local Edition
Playing blog catch-up with some light meals based on local produce from our home garden and farmers' market.
Playing blog catch-up with some light meals based on local produce from our home garden and farmers' market.
A May garden update, and a trip to the Denver Urban Homesteading farmer's market.
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.
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!
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…
Creamy wild rice and mushroom soup is paired up with a very unusual scone recipe calling for ricotta cheese in place of butter.
Hitting the farmer's market in the rain, and a stir-fry of ground pork, green beans, and peppery radishes.
You can't beat a brown-butter cake made with pantry staples and studded with chunks of melty bittersweet chocolate and juicy pear.
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 potatoes are a colorful take on starch; plus, rockfish fillets braised quickly in a rich sauce of tomato, silky leeks, and creamy hull peas.
My introduction to purple hull peas, braised with bacon and onions for a Southern-style side, and steeped into purple-tinged jelly.
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.
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.
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…
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.
My first batch of cucumber pickles, lacto-fermented with fresh garlic and dill.
My very first attempt to lacto-ferment cabbage into sauerkraut, as part of the Preserve the Bounty challenge.
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.