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Truly outrageous amounts of spinach
This is a photo of 3 of the 4 bunches of spinach which we got this week. I was thinking we'd use it all up at my birthday dinner (a dinner for 11 people) but we only managed to use half!!
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Asparagus
Before and after pix from the grill. We had them with pork chops from our meat CSA and wheat berry salad, left over from our memorial day grill with J and J.
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Totsoi
Tatsoi
Another tatsoi stirfry. The recipe comes from the Joy of Cooking, but we modify it so much that it's like a different dish.
Here's the
Stir-Fried Bok Choy With Mushrooms
4-6 servings
Joy of Cooking (3rd Ed.) page 349
Place in a small bowl:
6 dried black or shiitake mushrooms.
Pour over the mushrooms:
1/2 cup boiling water.
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CSA week 1
Here's what arrived in the first week's box. We ate the radishes with lunch on Wednesday (pickup day) and made the tatsoi into a stirfry (recipe to follow).
ASPARAGUS
FRESH HERBS: black-stemmed Peppermint
LETTUCE
SPICY GREENS MIX
GREEN ONIONS
KALE (Red Russian)
POTATOES, FINGERLING
RADISHES
SPINACH
TATSOI
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Does this thing work?
Gearing up to reinitiate The Chard Tart so I downloaded the iPhone app. Is chaos ensuing?
Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.
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CSA starting up next week!
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Bun in the Oven
We have actually already gotten two shares of our CSA this year already, but have been too busy to post. For those of you who don't already know, The Chard Tart is expecting a Tartlet, to be done baking in the next two weeks or so. So postings may be somewhat sporadic, to say the very least. -
Bread
I've been making a bread based on the infamous NYT recipe for a while now. Now there's a "2.0" version in the January/February 2008 issue of Cook's Illustrated. I found a few of their improvements to be worth adopting. I thought I might as well write out my own variant.
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