Last weekend I saw the first tomatoes of the season at the Palo Alto farmer’s market! Greenhouse-raised? perhaps. Unusual variety? not so much. Super delicious after over six months without eating a fresh tomato? absolutely…
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Summer Squash and Roasted Tomato Timbales
May 12th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Basil, Cheese, Delectable Dairy, Honorable Herbs, Most Popular, Summer Squash & Zucchini, Tomatoes, Veritable Vegetables, Weekend Projects
Homemade Tofu
May 1st, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Around the World, DIY Food Projects, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Legumes, Most Popular, Veritable Vegetables, Weekend Projects
I can’t say for sure what possessed me to decide to make homemade tofu. Most likely it’s because I’ve heard tofu called both ‘one of the most natural and healthful’ as well as ‘one of the most processed and adulterated’…
Quick Purple Kohlrabi Pickles
April 22nd, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, DIY Food Projects, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Kohlrabi, Most Popular, Preserves and Pickles, Veritable Vegetables
Ever since I bought Linda Ziedrich’s book The Joy of Pickling, I’ve had pickles on the brain… not the typical pickles one usually imagines — you know, made with cucumbers, puckering-ly salty, sour, sweet, or vinegar-y…
Coffee Companion, aka Homemade Coffee Mate
April 2nd, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Delectable Dairy, DIY Food Projects, Most Popular
My last remaining vice in the high-fructose-corn-syrup-laden, partially-hydrogenated, machine-cuisine world I’ve been gradually opting out of is, believe it or not, French Vanilla Coffee Mate. Eww, gross! you’re probably thinking…
Potato Gratin with Caramelized Fennel and Leek
March 27th, 2008 | by Jen | published in Cheese, Delectable Dairy, Fennel, Honorable Herbs, Leek, Most Popular, Potatoes, Thyme, Veritable Vegetables, Weeknight Recipes
It’s official: Spring is in full swing here in Los Altos Hills, California — the days are getting noticeably longer, the pea plants in my garden are exploding with fresh peas, and the winter greens (collards & kale) have bolted to seed…
How to Freeze Homemade Biscuits
March 22nd, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Grand Grains, Most Popular, Weekend Projects
I *love* homemade, fresh from the oven biscuits. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, with tea or an afternoon snack, freshly baked biscuits go with so many things. A typical biscuit recipe makes between 16 and 24 biscuits…
Nettle Soup
March 20th, 2008 | by Jen | published in Around the World, Most Popular, Nettle, Veritable Vegetables, Weeknight Recipes
Let me guess, you’ve never cooked with nettle before? Well, NOW (early spring) is the time to try it! Nettles seem to resist mass cultivation, and only grow wild or semi-wild, and only during a short period of the year. In the words of…
Honey Roasted Rutabaga
March 16th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Most Popular, Rutabaga, Veritable Vegetables, Weeknight Recipes
In all honesty, I’d never given rutabagas much thought until quite recently. Besides beets, root vegetables aren’t really my every day go-to’s, but I’ve started experimenting with turnips, parsnips, and rutabaga…
Seedlings are sprouting!
March 15th, 2008 | by Jen | published in DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Most Popular
After being delayed multiple weeks by ice storms, the seeds for my summer garden finally arrived! I had been waiting with baited breath, and got to planting within a day of receiving the package. All of the seeds are heirloom varieties…
Moroccan Salt Preserved Citrus: Blood Oranges and Meyer Lemons
March 6th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Lemon, Most Popular, Orange, Preserves and Pickles, Weekend Projects
Yaarrrr! It be citrus bounty week here in Los Altos Hills, CA… I gathered m’self about 10 schhwarly pounds of home-grown blood oranges and meyer lemons (from a co-worker and a neighbor, respectively). Ahh…
