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Thank You Thursday: Salsa Verde recipe 10 November 2011 9:53 am

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Today’s thanks are to Juan, a field manager at Groundwork Organics (the farm where we participated in an awesome CSA back in Eugene) who shared this recipe, and his boss Sophie, who wrote it up in the CSA newsletter one week when they gave us tomatillos… so delicious. Anyway, this is maybe just a little modified from that version, but not much. If you’re curious what any of this looks like, I refer you back to yesterday’s post. This sauce is especially good on chilaquiles or any other application of Simple Savory Black Beans, but for some reason I have never tried it on brown gack. Clearly, further experimentation is warranted (and science rules)! (more…)

Wordless Wednesday: Salsa Verde 9 November 2011 9:53 am

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Tomatillos. (more…)

Saying goodbye to Eugene. 25 August 2009 7:08 am

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I wrote this piece for an assignment on personal essays and memoir in my food writing class last fall, and it isn’t exactly true anymore — I have had a few more last Saturdays in Eugene since the one described here. It’s still emotionally true, perhaps more so than ever now, and it’s appropriate, since Peter is saying goodbye to Eugene this morning and coming home to New York City, at last, with his shield, not on it. Congratulations, love. See you soon.

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My last Saturday in Eugene, Oregon was pretty well perfect, thanks to a chance encounter with some carrot greens. I spotted them in the totebags of a pedestrian on the bike path south of the Lane County fairgrounds. She was on her way home from Saturday Market; Peter and I were riding our tandem to coffee after a morning of blueberry picking with Kevin and Laurel. It was August second, and thanks to those greens, I remembered it was our last chance to go to Saturday Market before our move. So after coffee, pastries, and a stumper of a New York Times crossword puzzle, we said goodbye to Kevin and Laurel. They rode south, and Peter and I went north, to our last Saturday Market for a long time. (more…)

Monkey Monday: post-Thanksgiving edition (with obligatory pictures) 26 November 2007 10:46 pm

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The very short version goes like this: we ate sooooo well last week! First, and completely unrelated to Thanksgiving, I feel obliged to brag about the fact that Peter and I made éclairs:

Yay Peter!

I made the pastry cream and chocolate glaze from recipes in The New Best Recipe; Peter made the pâte à choux from a recipe he found online, and cut a corner off a plastic bag to make an impromptu pastry-filling thingy (the backup plan was to use a turkey baster, but we’re really glad it didn’t come to that). The results? Delicious. Not unlike our awesome Thanksgiving dinner, which (being vegetarian) also did not involve a turkey baster in any way, as you’ll see if you click past the break: (more…)

Monkey Monday: pop quiz edition 10 September 2007 9:33 am

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Dear readers: If I had a recipe for delicious beet salad, and a story about how learning that recipe got me in big trouble, which would you rather read first: the recipe or the story? What if the story had monkeys in it? Just wondering. In other monkey news for this week, I had a bad fruit day on Saturday, How to Pick a Peach by Russ Parsons gets a mixed review, and (more…)