Archive for the ‘Food and Flora’ Category
Lavender Blueberry Soup
Manissa wasn’t so keen on this soup, because she loves blueberries so much it seemed a pity to alter them so throughly. But I like the rich–almost tart–mulled flavor of ...
Eggplants with Spicy Shallot-Tomato Sauce
God, aren’t eggplants gorgeous? This sauce is really easy–and with the tasty addition of tumeric, a nice vacation from the wide range of Italian basil & tomato twists on cooking. Eggplants ...
Fried Green Tomatoes and Basil-ly Red Tomato Sauce
In about a week or two, worried for the approaching frost, a lot of farmers are going to start selling you something you wouldn’t normally buy (except for that really cute movie)–green tomatoes. We have ‘em in our garden, and once they get frost-bite and turn brown and rot, ...
Golabki!: Stuffed Cabbage
This Wednesday at market, I was given a cabbage. The last time I interacted with cabbage was six years ago, when I saw it being fed to manatees in Tampa, ...
Easy Tasty Rice with Plums
I had leftover wild rice (actually a grass!) and a bunch of sweet, slightly brusied plums from the Tompkin Square farmers’ market. Here’s what happened.
Lightly butter a pan. Throw in the cooked rice. ...
Butter-Fried Pumpkin Gnocchi
A foray along our garden fence through the forest of basil and tomatoes that guard it revealed, hurrah, our first fall pumpkin. With any squash, my first move is always to cut it in half, put it on a pan with a 1/2″ of water, throw it in the ...
Pacific Rose Apple Crepes
My last fortnight in New Zealand was among the best of the whole three months! I stayed with Pam and Gary of Pukekohe. We used these Pacific Rose Apples (Pam’s tree at their ...