Cold temps signal soup time, which means it’s finally time to put some of my locally grown butternut squash to work in my favorite butternut squash soup. It’s delicious, colorful, fairly teeming with vitamins and almost certainly low cal, although I don’t have a nutritional analysis. The only part I’m not crazy about is peeling [...]
Entries from November 6th, 2007
Tomato reporting for favicon duty
November 5th, 2007 · No Comments · General
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, I went with the tomato for my favicon. If you use Firefox or Safari, you’ll see it in your browser’s address line and, if you add it to your bookmarks, in your bookmarks list. It’ll show up eventually if you don’t see it now in the address line, although [...]
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Pickled okra: Part 2
November 4th, 2007 · No Comments · Food preparation, recipes
Today was the day: I opened the okra that I pickled recently. The results? Mixed, I’d say. The plus side: The okra had a nice, crisp texture and quite good flavor, except for… The minus side: Wow, were they salty. Must have made some computation error when revising a recipe down to a single half-pint [...]
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Last harvest, and looking to winter
November 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · local food
Picked up my last bag of the season from Rolling Prairie Farmer’s Alliance this week. As usual, the produce is (are?) things of beauty. Seems as though the peppers were late in coming this year (which would be understandable considering our late spring freeze and rain) , but they’ve been plentiful at the end. The [...]
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