Long-term veggie storage can get fairly involved, with root cellars, sticking things in piles of sand, adjusting humidity, spotting and culling the spoiled, that sort of thing, or it can be as simple as tossing a plastic bag of small carrots, little guys that wound up at the … [Read more...] about Stored carrots for stew
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Beef meets kale
Yes, yet another thing to do with KALE! In a small fit of inspiration, I tore up a few fistfuls of baby Red Russian, and tossed 'em into the pot with carrots, onions, grass-fed beef shank, salt, pepper, garlic and water, slow-cooked for quite a while, six hours or more, adding … [Read more...] about Beef meets kale
May salad
[From 18-May-2013] No food styling, just salad! The first grown-this-season greens - romaine, butterhead, oakleaf/salad bowl letuces - picked by raiding half-grown plants for a few leaves apiece. Dinner. … [Read more...] about May salad
Empty shelves
[From 26-May-2012] OK, so it's only the result of a really good price on rice cakes, and emptied shelves aren't unusual during sales. Still, this time, standing in from of them, I suddenly imagined how fast ALL the shelves could empty, and wonder what we'd do right after that … [Read more...] about Empty shelves
Early share
[From 5-Jul-2013] This week's harvest basket, still greens, mainly: young curly and flat leaf kale, baby bok choi (autographed by a few flea beetles that made it under the cover), our Zippy Mix (today's version, mustards as always, with mizuna and some baby Chinese cabbage), … [Read more...] about Early share