If you’re trying to work more veggies into your diet or reduce the amount of meat you eat, stir frying is a great option. You can pack TONS of vegetables in and use just a little bit of meat and it will taste delicious. There really isn’t a recipe here, just a technique. Use anything you have hanging around, but do all your prep work before you start cooking. This is critical. Stir fry . . . → Read More: How to Stir Fry
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We had a lot of leftovers from Saturday’s celeriac polenta. Lindsay came up with a great idea to use it up: pan-fried polenta cakes for breakfast. We tried two versions. We went savory with the first batch, to which we added salt, pepper, and smoked Spanish paprika. This really worked. The smoked paprika really came through. We ate it with poached eggs, fresh pepper, and a black finishing salt. With the second batch we . . . → Read More: Using Up Leftover Polenta: Pan-Fried Polenta Cakes  3 comments - (Comments are closed)  Techniques  All-Natural Breakfast, celeriac, Dark Days Challenge, leftovers, local flour Lindsay and I always make sure to have at least half-dozen eggs in the fridge. As an aside, we make sure to buy good eggs from healthy chickens, usually from Knoll Krest, Flying Pigs Farm, or Grazin’ Angus Acres. More about our eggs in a future post. The primary reason that we make sure to keep eggs on hand is that when we have leftover vegetables that are getting long in the tooth, we . . . → Read More: How to Make a Frittata – The Cook’s Leftover Disposal 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Techniques Brussels sprouts, celeriac, frittata, golden turnip, leftovers, potatoes, roasted vegetables, watermelon radish I turned our local/seasonal food wheel over to the first week of January. This is it. Dark Days ahead! Our local food wheel sees three more months of winter (click for larger version). According to the wheel, from now on only the following will be available, and not in peak (i.e., in storage). According to the wheel, this condition lasts through March: Potatoes Onions Cabbage Beets Carrots Rutabaga, Turnips Parsnips Shallots Winter Squash . . . → Read More: According to the Local Food Wheel, it’s Officially “Dark Days” One comment - (Comments are closed) Techniques farmers' market, how to eat locally, how to eat seasonally We already covered the how-to’s of roasting vegetables in our techniques section. Since it’s such an easy meal, I made a winter version last week while Lindsay was away. We had some vegetables that we had neglected and needed to use up. I took some pictures to document some of the atypical winter ingredients and cover a few helpful tips. Ingredients Roasting potato mix (back left) Brussels sprouts (back right) Watermelon radish (front . . . → Read More: Roasted Vegetables – Winter Version and Misc. Techniques One comment - (Comments are closed) Techniques Brussels sprouts, celeriac, golden turnip, potatoes, Root Vegetables, watermelon radish |
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