Remember the ornamental quinces? Well, they’re all cooked up and ready to eat, with a little help from apples (local), pears (local and free) and sugar. I got some ideas from Joy of Cooking and adopted the name of one recipe there to produce these sweet-tart and pretty preserves. Or maybe it’s jam. Or conserve. [...]
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Apples, pears join quinces for fall preserves
October 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Food preparation, local food, recipes
Braising makes for succulent grass-fed beef
October 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Food preparation, local food, recipes
If you’ve hesitated to try grass-fed beef because you’ve heard it’s tough, you might reconsider. Just be sure to braise it. “Low and slow” are the watchwords for grass-fed beef, such as the roast I got from my friends’ cattle. And braising is a nice way to cook on a chilly, rainy day. Can you [...]
Tags:beef·main dishes·meat·turnips
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), [...]
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