I good stuff last week at the farmers market. Looks like squash and cucumbers are starting to come strong with lots of fun varieties. Yellow Crookneck Squash Green Pattypan Squash Yellow Pattypan Squash Miniature white cucumbers Kirby Cucumbers
Do you know the impact of your bottled water?
Fast Company has an in depth article on the impact that bottled water has. It brings to question the practicality of shipping a bottle of water half way around the world. In most cases it takes a staggering amount of energy to bottle and ship water, and it ends up being of no better than […]
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Quinoa Salad With Citrus Dressing
Cold grain salads are a perfect side dish in the summer. They are light and refreshing. Quinoa is a grain grown in the Andes and is a staple there. It is packed with good stuff! You can add it plain, but it taste great dressed up in this salad. It would be perfect side for […]
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Lamb Salad with Arugula and Gorgonzola
So what do you do with the leftovers from making an entire leg of lamb… Lamb salad! Lamb has a pretty strong flavor so you need a salad that can stand up to it. We went with Arugula for the greens. Spinach or perhaps something like mustard greens. We also added gorgonzola and red onions. […]
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Garlic, Rosemary Roast Leg of Lamb
Some dishes take a little chutzpah to pull off. I think large roasts fall in this category. First off, buying a large enough amount of meat to roast usaully cost a lot of money. Secondly, when you make a roast you are usaully making it for a lot of people. This means if you mess […]
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Food 101 Graduates
Food 101, Washington Post’s long running food science column, is calling it quits. Food 101 was a great column written by Robert L. Wolke that answered food questions with a bit a science and a lot of wit. Wolke’s writing was always very accesible but he never dumbed things down and always got to the […]
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Food Reading Roundup
Here are all the good food articles I have come across recently: The Washington Post has a pretty in depth look at imported Garlic. Apparently the FDA and USDA do a pretty poor job of examining food imports. They go on to look at garlic imports, and how they have increased over the years. They […]
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Tomato Salad
You know summer is just around the corner when the quality of tomatoes picks up. We have been getting and eating lots of tomatoes from the farmers market that is right around the corner from us. We have done some complicated things with them… but if you have good tomatoes, you just can’t beat a […]
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Garlic Allioli
Garlic Allioli (Spanish Aioli) is really just a homemade garlic mayonnaise… a really tasty mayonnaise! The traditional version is made with just oil and garlic in a mortar and pestle. However that takes forever. You can make it a lost faster in a blender, or food processor. If you have a stick or immersion blender, […]
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Easy Cubano Sandwiches
Cubano sandwiches are great… but who has roast pork loin and Cuban bread lying around? You can still capture alot of what makes these sandwiches great if you just leave those ingredients out and use some more common ones. Pressing this sandwich is part of what makes it great. We have a panini press, but […]
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