Tag Archives: recipes
When Life Gives You Strawberries
My recent experience with ice cream is interesting to me not so much from a local foods perspective, although local foods were involved, but because of the creative challenge of cooking with what’s on hand. The other day some dear … Continue reading
Potato Pancakes: Variations on a Theme
It may be April, but it’s still a bit wintry here in northern New England, with patches of snow all around and cold, brown ground wherever there isn’t snow. So, alas, the spring greens are weeks away and local meals … Continue reading
Cabbage and Roots Soup
There is a farm just down the road from where I used to live that has a winter CSA. They provide a weekly basket of winter storage vegetables — cabbage, carrots, turnips, beets, celeriac, potatoes, yams, onions, garlic — making … Continue reading
A Basic Quiche Recipe
Quiche is fairly easy to make and is a good way to cook with local ingredients. Here’s the basic recipe that I use: 4 eggs 1 1/2 cups milk 1/2 to 1 cup grated cheese salt and herbs to taste … Continue reading
Bean and Beet Stew: Another Use for Sweet Potatoes
Those sweet potatoes just keep coming and coming. This week I used some in an adaptation of Ukrainian Bean and Beet stew. This is a recipe from one of the Moosewood Cookbooks: Low Fat Favorites. My copy of it wore … Continue reading
Roasted Roots
I’m still working my way through that large bag of sweet potatoes from the CSA. The other day I decided to roast them in the oven with other root vegetables. When you roast root vegetables, you can greatly reduce the … Continue reading
Making Gypsy Soup
I got a large bag of sweet potatoes from the CSA this week. So I decided to make gypsy soup. You might remember this recipe from the original Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen. If you happen to have a copy of … Continue reading
Bread Pudding +
I love anything custard-y, so bread pudding is high on my list of things to make. It’s a really versatile dish that can be made sweet or savory and varied with all sorts of additions, so it can easily be … Continue reading
Zucchini Bread
Autumn has come and with it the end of what-am-I-going-to-do-with-all-this-zucchini season. Earlier this week I used my one last, lone zucchini to make one of my favorite treats – zucchini bread. This quick bread freezes well so it is a way, though … Continue reading
Elderberry Muffins
Another thing I am going to miss when my house sells is the elderberry bushes. There was a great crop this year. Here they are, just beginning to ripen. Even though they were turning ripe right around the time that I … Continue reading
My Edible Backyard 