I’m so behind in so many things, but here, nevertheless, are some updates as some items of interest. Of course, I haven’t read my RSS feeds in days, but I’m doing what I can. Updates Perhaps you remember the following items from a couple of weeks ago: Meryl makes a good case for me to [...]
Entries from October 17th, 2008
Roundup: Updates, news…and still lagging
October 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Eating out, Roundup
Great green tomatoes! Bring out the canner and cake pan! (And the relish tips…)
October 15th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Food preparation, Food selection, local food, recipes
When life gives you green tomatoes, you might as well make Green Tomato Cake and Green Tomato Chutney. Some people would also make Green Tomato Pickles. I probably should have. Here, in any case, is the story. The setup Sure, I told my sister. I’ll take some of your green tomatoes. Don’t just throw them [...]
Sign of the season: first soup and a quiz!
October 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Tools, recipes
I broke out the soup pot the other day about the time I turned on the furnace for a little while. By the end of the day, the house was still fragrant from the chicken soup, my belly was warm with it, and I had excellent leftovers in the refrigerator, too. This is a wonderful [...]
Tags:chicken·chicken soup·soup
Ornamental quince create cooking puzzle
October 9th, 2008 · 4 Comments · local food, recipes
Bring me your quince recipes. Please! My latest foraging score is my neighbor’s quince, which I’ve determined is not real quince but, rather, ornamental quince. (As an indication of my lack of quince sophistication, the ornamental variety is the only one I previously knew about.) I think it’s Pseudocydonia, however, rather than Chaenomeles (aka Japonica), [...]
Applooza loads me with apples, and I like it!
October 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Farmers markets, local food
Applooza came to the Lawrence Farmers Market last weekend, and what a treat! Apples, apples and more apples burdened the vendors’ tables, and former market apple mainstay Laurie Walters answered questions under the market tent where 18 varieties of apple (by my count) were available for tasting. Walters (in red sweater) talks apples. I tried [...]
Recipe mashup (and mixup) yields individual tartes Tatin
October 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Food preparation, local food, recipes
After years of attraction to, but avoidance of, tarte Tatin recipes, I finally gave in the other day so as to use my latest free food—old-fashioned, gritty pears from my neighbors’ tree. Angela & Michael have a prolific pear tree that had been heavy with fruit but was nearing the end of its production. I [...]
Tags:free food·fruit desserts·pears
