Provisioning: packing food for a road trip.
Rob and I have managed to carve out a life we love in our tiny corner of the world: We enjoy cooking at home, drinking wine, being outside together. So when we travel, we’re not all …
Tag: farmers’ market
This week at the farmers’ market.
One word: Strawberries!!! The first crop of strawberries showed up this week—not too many, yet, but they’re absolutely delicious. I had a bowl of sliced strawberries with vanilla nonfat Greek yogurt and a sprinkle of Turbinado …
This week at the farmers’ market.
We venture north for this week’s market recap, to the debut of Chicago’s Green City Market in Lincoln Park. Farmers from northern Indiana and Illinois, and from Michigan and Wisconsin brought spring produce, and some surprises. …
This week at the farmers’ market.
In spite of a record-breakingly rainy April, we’re seeing more local produce showing up at the farmers market at Findlay, and also at the Hyde Park Farmers Market, which opened its early season just today under …
Roasted vegetables, 3 ways.
When you cook for two as we do, it’s challenging to find creative ways to use leftovers. I look for ways to reuse, rather than reheat, leftovers. One night’s grilled steak becomes the next day’s steak …
Better than store-bought: Growing your own garlic.
A handwritten sign at the Hazelfield Farm stand at the farmer’s market read, “Garlic, for cooking or planting.” I’ve quickly come to realize the benefits of cooking with local garlic—the cloves are intensely flavorful without being …
How to preserve summer tomatoes.
After a long, incredibly hot and dry summer here in the Midwest, it seems like it’s only now, in late September (on the Equinox, no less) that the tomatoes are really in full swing. We’ve been …
Summer corn and tomato pie.
There are two food-related (obsessed?) blogs that I wish I wrote: 100cookbooks.com and smittenkitchen.com. Neither fails me whenever I bookmark a recipe. So when I spotted this recipe for Tomato and Corn Pie on smittenkitchen.com earlier …
