Gardening With What You Have & Green Garlic and Leek Soup
You’re supposed to make a garden plan–mapping out what’s going to go where so that the season unfolds productively with plants following the right plants and planted in the right combination and with...
View ArticleGreen Garlic, Butter, and Parmesan
. . . with eggs, or fresh pasta, or fish or beef or beans, or toast. . .! I can think of few things that would not be enhanced by the combination of these three things. I know I wrote about green...
View ArticleCook-With-What-You-Have Fried Rice
Leftover short-grained brown rice, peas, eggs, bacon, ginger, onion, carrots and green garlic. . . .made for a very tasty fried rice. A student of mine turned me onto a classic (as I learned) way of...
View ArticleWhen Time is Short – Chickpea Avocado Salad Sandwich
Cooked chickpeas are mashed together with avocado, cilantro, green onion and lots of lemon juice. Eat by the spoonful, on/between toasted bread, in a tortilla, as a dip. . . .you get the point. It’s...
View ArticleSummer Simplicity and Frenzy
Faux deviled eggs (plain boiled eggs topped with aioli), boiled new potatoes and beet and avocado salad. Herbs, hardboiled eggs, salads, fresh fruit, bread, cheese. . . .zucchini and green beans...
View ArticleSummer Lentils and Beans
French green lentils with summer squash, bacon and parsley and plenty of vinegar and good olive oil. It’s hot in Portland and getting hotter. We’re not so used to this here. I have been feeling a deep...
View ArticleCauliflower Pasta “Risotto”
The cauliflower at the Portland Farmers Market and Hillsdale Farmers Market this winter have been so sweet and beautiful. My father always told me not to over promise or over sell or just not be so...
View ArticleWhy Not? Add a Spoonful . . .
Brothy Pinto Beans with Harissa and Parsley of Harissa to my plain bowl of brothy beans for lunch? Why not do the same a few days later with chickpeas and top them with garlicky sautéed mustard greens...
View ArticleSquash Rice Fritters + Cilantro Yogurt Sauce
Previously frozen brown rice thawed and mixed with roasted squash and seasonings makes for a delicious fritter. Mid last week I had one section of that beautiful, giant squash leftover. I had unearthed...
View ArticleThe Idea of a Salad
A salad picked and arranged by my son Upon hearing the word salad my son’s face reveals disgust or despair or just plain irritation. He actually eats bean, grain or pasta or potato salads and in a...
View ArticleLast Gasp of Summer
I know it’s fall–it looks, smells and feels that way here in the Pacific Northwest–but the giant tomatoes I’m still hauling in from the garden and that keep showing up in my CSA share are ever so...
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