the answer is not attempt to make chile rellenos out of them. I got a bunch of banana peppers and other peppers from our CSA over the last two weeks. Well, I've been getting them for most of the summer, and passing them on to the other people with whom I share the share, but I figured I needed to suck it up and do something with them for a change. ( Read more... )

Or what I am not cooking with the remainder of my half-bushel of peaches. (Probably down to a peck right now.) My wrist and elbow really really hurt from canning all nights and weekends and doing repetitive motion stuff with my mouse and keyboard at work. (Lots of cutting and pasting lately ( Read more... )

A couple years ago I found a recipe in a magazine or online for zucchini and spaghetti noodles. It was really good, but I lost it and I haven't been able to find it again. Yesterday evening I decided to attempt to recreate something like it, and use up a lot of the veggies left over from our CSA share ( Read more... )

This recipe is heavily adapted from the recipe "Red Lentil Soup with Lemon" from the Cooks 101 website, as well as ideas from other websites for the same kind of soup. I've concluded that there are as many recipes for spinach and lentil lemon soup as there are Moms to make it "the way Mom used to make it." I'd been meaning to make it for a while, ( Read more... )

Wash 1 kg of turnips in cold water and dry them off. Peel the turnips and then cut them into centimeter-sized cubes. In a 10" size frying pan on medium to medium-low heat, fry 60 grams of cut-up bacon with 3 sugar cubes and one medium finely-chopped onion. When the onions just begin to caramelize, add the turnips along with caraway, salt, and ( Read more... )

Adapted from the Very Popular Bubble Tea RecipeOne box of Bascom's Imported Large Pearl Tapioca ( Read more... )

Heavily adapted from "Gina's Turnip Greens Recipe," by the FoodNetwork ( Read more... )