Archive for the ‘Food and Flora’ Category
Sundried Tomato Pesto
To celebrate the beginning of tomato season, Growing Chefs took the stage at the New York Botanical Garden’s Conservatory Kitchen. With the help of two young gardeners, Julia and Janine, we put together a child-friendly sundried tomato pesto.
Easily-Grown Salad
Here’s a perfect starter food for all beginning gardeners: salad. Sow your tiny lettuce and radish seeds now, and in just over 30 days, your window box will have everything you need but the dressing! I ordered my seeds from ...
Senposi Curried-Rice Wraps
Senposi (sen-poe-sigh), a Japanese, collard-greens-like leaf, has a new incarnation as a tortilla today. After cooking up some curried rice with ...
Sunshine Kabocha Cheesecake
Now here’s a powerhouse conglomorate that I can feel good about: the dairy products of Ronnybrook conjoined with the organic goodness of Kira (Evolutionary Organics)’s squash. Traditionally concocted with pumpkin, this recipe let me explore the lively “sunshine ...
Penne with Braised Squash and Winter Greens
Come the cold, winter greens sweeten as their sugars, normally expended in flower production and growth, are held tight inside their freezing leaves and stems. This recipe can be locally enjoyed fresh until January, when our upstate farmers ...
Carrot Pizza
This weekend’s culinary adventure was a cooking party with a secret ingredient. Twenty-four hours before the party began, our host reveled we were to battle for the palate with carrots. Fall icicles of sweetness (too much? But so true!) in dizzying orange, white and ...
Recession-Depression Soup
With the Dow heading south like a migrating goose, the fall theme for my kitchen is soup. A cheap and effective way to stretch vitamins and flavor into a worthy recipe, soups can be made easily, with little ...
…Pickle Me, Too!
Shel Silverstein once wrote a great poem about three adventurers, Ickle Me, Tickle Me and Pickle Me, setting off into the sky in what appears to be a battered high top sneaker. I loved that the tiny brothers were clinging to the shoe despite its peeling sole and raggedy ...
