Recipe: Garlicky Green Beans in Balsamic-Honey Glaze 31 August 2007 11:26 am
Posted by Tracy in : seasonality, garden, vegan, recipes, eating, vegetarian, cooking , 4 commentsFor those of you who like your recipes in straightforward rather than epistolary form, here’s the “what you need and what you do” remix of the dish described in the open letter to green beans I posted on my birthday. I’ve labeled it vegan even though it uses honey, because that’s one animal ingredient my very favorite vegans go back and forth about. You could probably substitute agave syrup if you’re really strict, but I’d be even more interested to see a variation that used molasses, because I’m curious to see how all that dark syrupy goodness would interact with the balsamic vinegar, oh yes. Anyway, it’s recipe time. (more…)
Recipe: Green beans with Asian flavors 30 August 2007 5:28 pm
Posted by Tracy in : vegan, reviews, garden, travel, recipes, vegetarian, restaurants, friends, eating, cooking , add a commentThis tasty treat is based on some green beans I got at a little deli in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island in Washington State during our bike trip around Puget Sound last August. I’d rummage through my notes on that trip some more in the hopes of rediscovering the name of that deli, except that I’m almost 500 miles away from them, visiting friends in Davis, CA for the weekend. Whee! But anyway, on to the recipe. (more…)
Another wacky Wednesday, this time with picture! 29 August 2007 11:00 pm
Posted by Tracy in : local food, garden, pictures, friends, cooking , add a commentSo on Sunday (Kitchen Garden Day), Peter broke out some truly Tom Sawyer charm to recruit his hapless officemate Jon into helping us paint the house, and Jon took a truly excellent picture of the preparations for the delicious dinner we all shared that night (and which I bragged about on Monday): (more…)
An open love letter to green beans. 28 August 2007 12:03 pm
Posted by Tracy in : seasonality, garden, local food, summer, vegan, recipes, eating, CSA, vegetarian, cooking , add a commentOkay, so this is a cut-and-paste from my Open Letters project, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Besides, it’s my birthday, so I get to do whatever I want, including slack off a little. I wrote this letter in 2006, before that year’s pole beans kicked in and I learned that they are the secret to finally growing enough green beans to bring some inside, but all the parts about the love are still 110% true. And the recipe sneakily concealed in this epistle is so darn tasty that I may even write it up as its own entry someday. (more…)
Monkey Monday: my birthday came early edition 27 August 2007 11:02 pm
Posted by Tracy in : vegan, garden, summer, vegetarian, eugene, friends, eating, restaurants , 4 commentsMy birthday isn’t for a little under an hour in this time zone, but it feels like I’ve been celebrating for days. As previously mentioned, my parents are visiting, and today I got home from work just in time to watch Peter put the final brushes of blue paint on the trim of our newly yellow house. Yay! (Every time my parents visit, they do a project. This one is extra awesome.) Also, yesterday was Kitchen Garden Day and we had a fabulous dinner, and we also ate a super-delicious family-style dinner at Iraila the night before that (Saturday). The festivities will really kick into gear with a total lunar eclipse that’s just a few hours away (more astronomy nerdery here), but that’s not exactly edible (except in the Cookie Monster song “If Moon Were Cookie”) so the rest of this post will be about more delicious celebrations and my plans for making this Green Bean Appreciation Week. (more…)
