Archive for July 2006

Heirloom Season

by Annie N on July 31, 2006 (0) Comments

This morning I got up at 7am, biked all three bridges of lower Manhattan (BKLYN/MANHATTAN/WMSBRG), cruised to the farmers’ market, and bought these beautiful locally-grown heirloom tomatoes. I showed them to a customer at the ...

Mint Meal! July 19th

by Annie N on July 30, 2006 (0) Comments

Wow! Ten guys in one class! A large crowd meant we could tackle the five-recipe menu I had planned: zucchini pasta with mint and rocambole garlic, a salsa salad with spearmint, cucumber granita with mint ...

Buy local!

by Annie N on July 30, 2006 (0) Comments

Seasonal Sushi

by Annie N on July 23, 2006 (1) Comment

Today we discovered some succulent purslane growing wild about the yard, pressing its flat, fingernail-sized leaves in a starfish shape to ...

Eat Flowers!

by Annie N on July 23, 2006 (0) Comments

July 5th Lesson Summary

Making an edible-flower-salad is easy. First, we washed all our greens in a salad spinner. Kevin cut the caps off the strawberries. Madeline’s good design eye put together the lettuce around ...

Garlic! Pesto! Perfect!

by Annie N on July 23, 2006 (0) Comments

June 28th Lesson SummaryPrepping a garden bed and preparing pesto

Wednesday was a beautiful day, hot and sunny. In the early morning, I biked to the Greenmarket in downtown Manhattan to pick up some fresh ...