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CSA Weeks 9 and 10: Full-on summer

No baby yet! Week 9: -Corn -New potatoes -Purple cabbage (a frilly, pretty one) -Tomatoes -Summer squash -Thyme -Green peppers -Cavolo nero! Oh, August. You make dinner so easy. I steamed the corn and cut it off the cob, and mixed it with some of the basil compound butter I made a few weeks ago [...]

CSA Week 7: Compound butter and fabulous corn

The disaster of the previous week’s corn was forgiven once we ate this duo. Oh man, was it good! The haul: -Beets! -Corn! -Kale! -Basil! -Beans! -Zucchini/summer squash. I wasn’t going to get to the basil before it turned black and sad, so I decided to make a compound butter that I could freeze. I [...]

CSA Week 6: Oh, right. Zucchini season.

We were at the lake for the first part of last week, thanks to many of you fabulous people. More on that after the vegetables. Ben went to pick up the share after we got home on Tuesday, while I lay flat in the air conditioned bedroom and bemoaned the lack of lake outside our [...]

CSA Week 5: No, I won’t turn on the stove.

Ok, I just looked at the 10-day forecast and there’s no break in sight. The heat, it is here to stay. The stove, it is staying off as much as possible. This week’s share: -Lettuce -Garlic -Peas -Summer squash -Cucumbers -2 cabbages (one was a swap for MORE cilantro) -Eggs We’ve been out of town [...]

CSA Week Four: Fast “cooking” for hot days

Still very green in CSA-land: -Lettuce -Kale (2 bunches; I traded my cilantro for kale in the swap box: BEST SWAP EVER) -1 turnip -1 kohlrabi -Zucchini -Peas -Eggs It was crazy hot earlier this week, and I wasn’t feeling particularly prone to extended cooking sessions. I still had a handful of cabbage from a [...]

Summer food: Variations on a theme

(No CSA this week; we were out of town and a neighbor picked up my share.) As if pregnancy hadn’t already made me an incredibly lazy cook, summer really lowers my level of ambition in the kitchen. As I flipped through photos from the last couple months there were two things I kept falling back [...]

CSA Weeks 1 & 2: Back to the greens

Summer! Forget Memorial Day. Despite the calendar and no matter how freakishly cold or hot it is, the first CSA pick-up of the season marks the beginning of summer for me. Last week in the first installment, I brought home a light and chlorophyll-packed bag of greens: -Kale (I scored an extra from the new [...]

Trip report: Sweet tooth

I’m in a major blogging rut, having lots of trouble writing anything up. But I have tons of photos from the trip that I always planned to share with you, so how about I just jump back in and share a few tasty experiences per post until I can bear to actually write about what [...]

Travel inspiration: Pea salads for spring

Hi! We’re back. We got back a week ago, but you know how that always goes. If you want to take a look at where we were and what we were doing, from my perspective (which means with very few pictures of me!), check out this Flickr set. One lucky thing about this pregnancy is [...]

Easy peanut noodles for lazy people

Noodle Quest got under my skin, and one night after deciding to try Smitten Kitchen’s adapted-from-GOOP ginger dressing, I thought I’d whip up some cold peanut noodles to round out the meal. My mom used to make something similar, and I’d eat as many as I could out of the bowl before getting my hand [...]