Spring is springing and soon we’ll be segueing from winter oven cooking to summer grilling. This carrot salad is another one of our more popular market sides and while it’s fantastic in summer when good carrots abound at your favorite farmers market, it makes a great side for spring dishes. For example, this will pairContinue reading “Grated Carrot Salad (Carottes Râpées)”
Category Archives: CSA Recipes
Million Dollar Pickles or Bread and Butter Pickles?
Cucumbers. There are a lot of them floating around right now. We picked up a bunch of pickling cukes, you know those smaller ones which look like pickles, so this week I decided to make some pickles. But not just any pickles. Million Dollar Pickles. At least that’s what my mom’s recipe book calls them.Continue reading “Million Dollar Pickles or Bread and Butter Pickles?”
Sautéed Pumpkin and Chestnuts
Pumpkins have been filling up our CSA box here at the end of the season, and aside from pureed soups and pies what else can you do with them? Well, pumpkin is squash so you can treat it just like any other squash by roasting, mashing, or sautéing. This week I came across an interestingContinue reading “Sautéed Pumpkin and Chestnuts”
Heirloom Candy Stripe Beets and Goat Cheese Salad
I’ve been wanting to do something with beets and goat cheese since our dinner at Bistrot L’Entrepont in Montreal where Cheryl had a beet and goat cheese mille-feuille. I played with that idea a little, but alas I just can’t get everything to come together as well as the chef did that night, so IContinue reading “Heirloom Candy Stripe Beets and Goat Cheese Salad”
What’s in Our CSA This Week: Lamb’s Quarters
Quick post today as we’re traveling for the holiday weekend. Lamb’s Quarters is one of our favorite seasonal greens. I had never heard of it until last year when it popped up in our custom CSA from Montalbano Farms. Curious about it I ordered some. It kind of looks like big parsley with its jaggedContinue reading “What’s in Our CSA This Week: Lamb’s Quarters”
Rhubarb Ice Cream
CSA time is here! In our first box of the season I ordered some rhubarb not quite knowing what I’d do with it. Cheryl pointed out I hadn’t made any ice cream in a while and since it was turning into summer (ever so slowly here in Chicago) it might be nice if I madeContinue reading “Rhubarb Ice Cream”
Braised Red Cabbage, A Perfect Autumn Side Dish
Red cabbage. Much sweeter than sauerkraut, braised red cabbage is the German restaurant equivalent of beans at a Mexican restaurant, always on the side of whatever dish you order. However, because of its sweet and acidy nature I think red cabbage is much more versatile than refried beans and it pairs well with many fallContinue reading “Braised Red Cabbage, A Perfect Autumn Side Dish”
Grilled Jimmy Nardello Italian Peppers
That’s right, it’s another post about the wonderful produce we’ve been getting in our CSA this summer. I think I’ve featured vegetables more during the past few months than any other time during the life of this website. This week’s interesting pick was Jimmy Nardello Italian Peppers, an heirloom pepper named after…Jimmy Nardello. Who’s heContinue reading “Grilled Jimmy Nardello Italian Peppers”
Dutch Beets in Our CSA Box – What are Those?
My wife posted a picture last week with the caption: ‘Living with Peter means you walk into your kitchen and think what is that and how the hell do you eat it? Dutch beets apparently. Not some weird radish/carrot/potato hybrid thing like I thought.’ Ha! Working with new vegetables like Dutch beets is just oneContinue reading “Dutch Beets in Our CSA Box – What are Those?”
Zucchini Tomato Basil Tart
My tomatoes are ripening, my basil plant is a bush, and zucchini are abundant. I think this zucchini tomato basil tart really captures the vegetables we’re starting to see come to markets now. It’s also a perfect summertime dish as a light accompaniment to any grilled meal or part of a lunchtime salad.
The Roaming GastroGnome 