An open love letter to green beans. 28 August 2007 12:03 pm
Posted by Tracy in : CSA, cooking, eating, garden, local food, recipes, seasonality, summer, vegan, vegetarian , 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 : CSA, cooking, eating, local food, recipes, seasonality, summer, vegan, vegetarian , 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…)
How to cook a giant mystery squash (only very arguably a recipe) 23 August 2007 11:29 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking, eating, eugene, garden, kitchen gear, local food, pictures, recipes, summer , add a commentStep one is to make a silly blog post about a ridiculous stray squash that followed your partner home from a pile marked “FREE” by the side of the road somewhere, no joke. (And now I will stop saying “you” when I mean “me” because it’s confusing as heck to write and I’m up past my bedtime after a long day that involved bringing my mom to work, also no joke, but I may write about it eventually.) (more…)
Wednesday wackiness: giant squash and more. 22 August 2007 12:00 pm
Posted by Tracy in : CSA, local food, pictures, school , add a commentBut first, a little bit of nearly unrelated wackiness:
* * * * *
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
* * * * *
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…)
Monkey Monday: distracted by visiting parents edition 20 August 2007 8:19 am
Posted by Tracy in : advice, agriculture, eating, friends, garden, local food, news, restaurants, vegan, vegetarian , add a commentI’m going to do my best to keep the posts coming this week, but my parents are visiting from New Jersey and among other things we’re going to be painting the house (and celebrating my birthday and a badass lunar eclipse, eating a family-style dinner at Iraila and seeing Ratatouille again, but definitely not in that order) and in general that means I’m going to be a bit distracted, to put it mildly. But Monkey Mondays are fun and easy, right? I can just blather one off in no time at all? (She said, writing from New Jersey on Friday afternoon, not knowing when she’d get the chance again what with most of the weekend jet-setting across the country for a very dear friend’s 70th birthday party, and back again with parents in tow… yay for scheduled posts, I tell you what!) Here goes…. (more…)
