March 31st, 2008 | by Jen | published in Blog Carnival
First of all, a big THANK YOU! to everyone who submitted posts for this month’s ‘Fresh From the Farmer’s Market’ blog carnival! The quality and breadth of this month’s submissions was fantastic! Below you’ll find videos, recipes, tips for foraging wild food, information about alternative milks, thoughts on local food and CSAs, and much more. […]
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…
March 25th, 2008 | by Jen | published in Blog Carnival
Thursday, March 27th is the deadline to submit something for the second ever Fresh From the Farmer’s Market Blog Carnival. Follow this link to make a submission or simply email me a link to your page at jen (at) modernbeet (dot) com Check out the first carnival edition here About the Fresh From the Farmer’s […]
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
March 4th, 2008 | by Jen | published in Blog Carnival
Welcome to the first (of hopefully many) ‘Fresh From the Farmer’s Market’ digests! Last month I asked people to submit their recipes, thoughts, photographs, sounds, etc that they found representative of the idea ‘Fresh From the Farmer’s Market’. I didn’t know what to expect, nor if anyone would heed the call for works — […]
I daydream a lot about cooking during the week, especially when I’m on the train. Its rhythmic...
Yesterday I inaugurated my new canning equipment -- a huge 12 quart stockpot, a canning funnel, a ma...
I read cookbooks to relax. There is no better way for me to unwind than to read a recipe, imagine t...
I have been craving some serious American food as of late. A week ago I had the overwhelming urge ...
A few weeks ago on the same France trip that introduced me to Feves au Lard Fume, Steven and I met u...
When I try to explain what tempeh is to a person who isn't familiar with it, it never ends up soundi...
I had a quiche epiphany the first time I tasted the quiche from Tartine Bakery in San Francisco. Th...
Besides the expected potatoes and cabbage, green garlic is one item that I have been coming across w...
Hands down, my favorite breakfast is two soft boiled eggs, a touch of butter, a piece or two of good...
The range of culinary emotions I've experienced living here in Germany for the past three months spa...
Long time no see! The recent Modern Beet silence has been due to the fact that I made an internatio...
I can't believe how easy it is to make gravlax. Or let me rephrase that statement -- I can't belie...
I was looking out my apartment window the other day when my gaze came to rest on a tree about fiftee...
Oh. My. God. This is the best pie crust I have ever tasted! So flaky. So moist. And oh the hin...
These past few weeks have been particularly busy and challenging for me. I changed jobs, spent two ...
Wilkommen nach Deutschland! Ok, full-disclosure time: I haven't yet made this myself, but I watche...
A while back, I got the idea in my head that I wanted to make my own sausage. Why? first and forem...
I was walking back from lunch the other day with my coworker Fritz, and he (very) jokingly proclaime...
Perhaps you would have chuckled if you saw me leaping into the air, grabbing at bunches of elderberr...
The annual zucchini proliferation is upon us! Last week alone I was given six large zucchini, which...