I need your help. I haven’t gotten my Thanksgiving meal assignment(s) yet, but I’m worried I’ll get asked to bring a vegetable side dish again (and I don’t mean carrot and celery sticks). It’s not that I don’t like vegetables; quite the contrary. It’s just that I tend to prefer simply and freshly cooked vegetables, [...]
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Make-ahead vegetable challenge
November 13th, 2007 · 14 Comments · Food preparation, Food selection, recipes
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Soup time is here
November 6th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Healthy eating, local food, recipes
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 [...]
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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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Herbs come in for the winter
October 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Food selection, General, local food, recipes
On the expectation of frost, I brought my potted herbs in Saturday night. It isn’t a huge collection—rosemary and bay laurel—but they’re wonderful to have around. I gave up the rest of my herb growing years ago, as encroaching shade and the appearance of herbs in my Rolling Prairie bag made the effort largely wasted. [...]
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Doughing in the roll
October 23rd, 2007 · 5 Comments · Food preparation, recipes
Last weekend, my nephew at long last cashed in on his Christmas present—a cooking session with Aunt Janet to go along with the vintage aprons (made by my grandmother for my sisters and me when we were children) and wooden spoons (matching; no fights) I gave him and his sister. To my great pleasure, they [...]
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KC Market gets cookbook treatment
October 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments · local food, recipes
The City Market in Kansas City, Mo., the area’s oldest (to my knowledge) ongoing farmers market, marked 150 years this year, and a local cookbook honors the occasion and the goods sold at the market. Julienne Gehrer—an avid cook, Hallmark Cards editor and entrepreneur—has written In Season: Cooking Fresh from the Kansas City Farmers’ Market, [...]
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