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Tagged charts, pizza, recipe, statisticsWe’ve had a great crop of cucumbers so far this year. All from 8 plants, four pickling type and four English cucumbers, bought at Doug’s Grocery in White Oak at the corner of Ringold and Brooke Roads. We’ve been eating cucumber salad all week and I started some cucumbers for pickling yesterday. We’ll taste the [...]
Tagged cucumbers, pickles, RecipesWe were going to a friend’s pot-luck party, had plenty of summer squash from our CSA, FACSAP, and the lavender was blooming in the garden. So the hunt for a summer quash or zucchini bread recipe an a lavender butter recipe was on! Here is what we came up with. We used a variation of [...]
Tagged lavender, Recipes, summer squashHere is a recipe for Strawberry Coffee Cake, that is very close to the one I just made. It turns out to be a very delcious and satisfying cake. The second recipe is for pizza dough from the NY Times. The ‘trick’ in this one is to let the dough rise overnight. I always figured [...]
Tagged pizza, pizza dough, strawberry, strawberry coffee cakeThis recipe is slight modification of one from Frank Stitt’s Bottega Favorita: A Southern Chef’s Love Affair with Italian Food, another impulse check-out from our local library, CRRL. We enjoyed it and will definitely make it again. I used: 1 tablespoon organic Spanish olive oil 2 tablespoons organic butter 1 heaping cup of sliced spring [...]
Tagged asparagus, bottega favorita, mint, pasta, peas, penne, recipeThis recipe is from Organic and Chic: Cakes, Cookies, and Other Sweets That Taste as Good as They Look by Sarah Magid. I checked the book out from the library on a whim. The shortcakes turned out to be very good, with mint from the garden, local strawberries, and some nice cream from a good [...]
Tagged mint, recipe, shortcake, strawberryWe took Lynn’s spring break to go to New Orleans. Upon Neva’s excellent suggestion we had muffulettas at Central Grocery. That’s a really good sandwich with a topping of Central Grocery’s olive salad, which is modified giardiniera. When we came how we just had to try our hand at making our own giardinieria. We started [...]
Tagged giardinieraHere are two dictionaries dealing with cooking terms. I’ve found them both useful when I come across a new term in a recipe, or a descriptive term that I want to get right. Cooking Dictionary, Glossary and Terms directory. collection of glossaries (tags: cooking definitions food glossary glossaries) A: Page 1: Cooking Terms: RecipeTips.com Glossary [...]
Tagged cooking, dictionary, glossaryAfter many years we are blessed with a very good butcher in Fredericksburg, Olde Towne Butcher. This recipe doesn’t come from them, but the ribs do. as they can, they supply grass fed and/or local meat. They’re friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful Cooks.com – Recipe – Sauerkraut And Country Spare Ribs good, long-cooking recipe (tags: recipe [...]
Tagged country spare ribs, recipe, sauerkrautWe tried the recipe for Baked Artichokes with Onions, Lemons, Black Olives & Mint and took it to our friend’s house to share with some excellent chicken they made. The recipe is from “The Zuni Cafe Cookbook: A Compendium of Recipes and Cooking Lessons from San Francisco’s Beloved Restaurant.” The picture here was taken at [...]
Tagged artichoke, lemon, mint. onion. olives