Kale is this year’s “It” vegetable. A nutritional powerhouse with sudden cachet. How to include it on your Thanksgiving table? Here is a robust dish, good for potlucks. Creamy and cheesy, it may win over ever even ardent leafy-green haters in your family. Creamy Kale Gratin (Serves 4) 8 oz. kale, thick stems removed, rinsed and chopped (about 8 cups) […]
Read moreOne final tomato recipe before summer tomatoes peter out – a creamy tomato soup, using just a few spoonfuls of cream. Potatoes give this soup its smooth, soothing texture. Add some crisp cheesy croutons and you have yourself a warm bowl of comfort food. Serves 4. Tomato soup with cheese croutons 1 large white onion, finely chopped ¼ (quarter) cup […]
Read moreThere is a t-shirt you can buy online that reads: Eat More Kale. We couldn’t agree more. (Sign of our times: the Vermont T-shirt-maker has been challenged by fast-food company Chik-fil-A. A contemporary David and Goliath story, if ever we’ve seen one.) Kale is excellent steamed, sautéed, braised—or crisped to make chips (check out these recipes). Tiny tender leaves are […]
Read moreShelling beans—in the cranberry bean family– appeared at Moonlight Alpaca’s table last week. (Look for them this week!) Their slightly bumpy pale green pods are mottled with crimson streaks. Inside you’ll find fat shiny alabaster beans, marbled with pink, almost too pretty to cook. The beans lose their looks as they cook, turning tan outside, but their interiors quickly […]
Read moreIt’s heirloom tomato time. Tomato heaven. Peachtree Circle Farm even has a small yellow tomato that’s fuzzy. Close your eyes and cup it in your hand; it could be an apricot. Bite into it – and it’s most definitely, assertively, a tomato. For this week’s recipe, choose a variety of tomatoes, including cherries, with an eye for different shapes, sizes, […]
Read moreHere’s a recipe for the summer crop of garlic arriving at the market. Slowly braised, new garlic becomes soft as butter, and tastes nutty and sweet. As fresh garlic cures in the coming weeks, the bulb’s protective covering will gradually become drier, and the cloves a little less creamy. Braised fresh garlic 4 fat bulbs of fresh hardneck garlic with […]
Read moreTuscan kale has many names – lacinato, cavolo nero, dinosaur kale (because of its leathery-looking leaves.) Despite its tough looks, it makes the best kale salad. What’s more, with the help of a little olive oil, this flavorful kale wilts down surprisingly fast in the pan. It also loves other robust flavors like garlic and anchovy, kicked up with chilli […]
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Our first recipe of the season features poached eggs. Add a poached egg and a simple sandwich becomes brunch or supper. If you suffer from fear-of-poaching, you might want to try this method. As a general rule, the fresher the egg, the easier it is to poach neatly. Older eggs with watery whites have an annoying tendency to become ragged. […]
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 […]
Read moreSue Bourque returns this week for another Buy Fresh Buy Local food demo. Sue is a registered dietician and nutrition educator with the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, Those of you who’ve seen Sue in action before, will also know she’s an accomplished cook. This time, she’ll be giving a tomato tutorial, and Gazpacho soup is on the menu—an American-style Gazpacho, […]
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