INGREDIENTS: 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, at room temp. 5 small stalks green garlic, any rough spots trimmed, sliced into very thin rounds Kosher salt 1 ½ cups fresh or frozen shelled green peas 2 small heads of butter lettuce, washed and torn into pieces Freshly ground black pepper DIRECTIONS: Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a medium […]
Read moreHere’s a winter squash tip from Weston Lant at Lucky Field Organics. For a quick meal of butternut squash, halve and clean squash and place it cut-side down on glass plate in the microwave oven. Cook, testing every now and then, until squash is perfectly tender. Mash scooped-out flesh and season to taste. You might not even need any butter, […]
Read moreSummer is waning. The autumnal equinox falls on September 22. Make salad while the sun shines. Here is an easy-going chopped vegetable and bread salad called fattoush. If you can find powdered sumac, a tart, deep-red, Middle-Eastern spice, dust it over the finished salad. Similarly if you can forage some purslane, put that in, too. Both add a refreshing, authentic […]
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