Monkey Monday: post-Thanksgiving edition (with obligatory pictures) 26 November 2007 10:46 pm
Posted by Tracy in : seasonality, pictures, garden, local food, baking, dessert, friends, eating, CSA, cooking , add a commentThe 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:
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
Posted by Tracy in : monkeys, seasonality, CSA, books , 2 commentsDear 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…)
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…)
Recipe: Roasted Summer Vegetables 24 August 2007 9:55 pm
Posted by Tracy in : seasonality, local food, summer, vegan, recipes, eating, CSA, vegetarian, cooking , add a commentThis is an approximation of the roasted vegetables I made for dinner on Wednesday night, based on a recipe I wrote up on Everything2 way back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the earth. My favorite cookbook reference for roasted vegetables (and many other things, of course) is Moosewood Restaurant New Classics, specifically the Roasted Vegetables for Pasta and Roasted Winter Vegetables recipes, although my version of their Moroccan Roasted Vegetables was a big hit at Sundance (but the story of that particular stalker will have to wait for another time). Anyway. Those recipes are particularly useful when I’m not sure how thick to cut up various vegetables, but mostly this cooking method is super-forgiving, and I make a lot up myself as I go along, without really measuring anything. So take my amounts with a grain of salt. (more…)
Wednesday wackiness: giant squash and more. 22 August 2007 12:00 pm
Posted by Tracy in : local food, pictures, school, CSA , add a commentBut first, a little bit of nearly unrelated wackiness:
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Dear Internet friends,
My GRE test prep software came in the mail and I need to borrow a Windows computer to use it. If you are in Eugene or know anyone in Eugene who might be willing to lend me such a device, please email me (tracyfood at gmail dot com) and I promise that my gratitude will be delicious. Thanks already.
Love,
-Tracy
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And now, the aforementioned giant squash:
As always, if the picture isn’t big enough for you, click on it for the appropriate Flickr page. (more…)
