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22/Jul/2007 17:05

Baked Goodies by Laura

When a friend invited me to a party on the 4th of July, I tried to come up with something worthy to bring. No one else had claimed dessert, so I figured I'd bake something. But oh, woe is me, I kind of suck at baking. I scoured the web for something easy and festive, and came up with a recipe for blueberry bars that is, I think, a real winner. I've made them twice so far this month (the second time was for a backyard BBQ), and with the right tools they're really quite easy. The recipe I based them on can be found here, but I made a couple of changes.

07/Jul/2007 20:05

Peas 'n Carrots by Laura

This week's farm share presented a wondrous bounty! Lettuce, mixed salad greens, collard greens, beets, carrots, garlic scapes, and one of my favorite veggies, sugar snap peas. They're only in season for a little while each summer, and good enough to eat raw (we sampled a few this way on Thursday, which is farm share pickup day). I decided to cook them very simply with the carrots and garlic scapes as a side dish for tonight's dinner.

For the main course, we thawed a convenient salmon fillet from Trader Joe's and Elliot made his favorite mustard glaze for it. Some jasmine rice and a small salad rounded out a tasty and fast dinner -- ready about 40 minutes after we started prep work, and the longest step was waiting for the rice to finish cooking in our rice maker.

01/Jul/2007 20:02

Farm Share Stir Fry by Laura

With a lot of new vegetables from this week's farm share and a few stragglers from last week, I decided to make a big stir fry to make use of a wide variety of fresh produce. After testing a sauce recipe and finding it lacking, Elliot struck out and made his own sauce on the fly. It was tasty!

This was my first time cooking with bok choy, which always seemed like an exotic ingredient. That's the nice thing about participating in a farm share; we've been exposed to some new foods without having to go out on a limb and buy them. Well, I suppose we did sort of buy them, since the CSA share isn't free, but so far it's been a fun surprise to let someone else choose our produce for us.

01/Jul/2007 16:20

Omelette for Dinner by Laura

Elliot has been out of town since last Friday, so I haven't been doing much cooking. Unfortunately, this means that much of last Thursday's farm share pick-up has been sitting around for the better part of a week. Tonight I stayed home and decided to cook something nice for just myself. I made an omelette out of the green garlic, garlic scapes, and scallions we received last week, serving it with some romaine lettuce (also from the farm share) dressed with balsamic vinaigrette, and Barokes wine from a can. (We bought the cans of wine because we can never finish a whole bottle, but I like to cook with wine in spite of the fact. When I opened a can for myself I discovered that even though the cans are rather small, they should not be consumed single-handedly on a Tuesday night.)

On to the recipes...