This hearty cod and corn chowder with celery, young potatoes, sweet peppers, and fresh herbs is a delicious way to bridge the seasons.
Grilled Salmon, Fennel, and Corn with Dill Butter
From Erin Scott’s gorgeous Yummy Supper Cookbook, a recipe for grilled salmon, fennel, and corn on the cob with dill butter.
grilled lamb with haricot vert and coconut milk broth
Flavorful grilled lamb tossed with tender haricot vert and drizzled with a generously spiced coconut milk broth.
toasted millet and cauliflower fritters with mustard greens
Yesterday we had our third March snowstorm. What was predicted to be a dusting, changed to an all day, several inches type of affair. And somehow, blessedly, school was not cancelled. With the house to myself, I spent the morning watching the snow fall and cooking up some spring comfort food (even if the weather begged to differ). [Read more…]
jerusalem artichoke gnocchi with sautéed kale
I’m prone to think myself an expert on too wide an array of topics. Brian’s similarly afflicted, so in this way, and the fact that we’re both not the dollars and cents types, we’re a bad match. Or at least, he’s not the absolute yin to my yang. One way we both learned we knew much less than we had thought we did was moving to Virginia. In Brooklyn, artisan products and farm-fresh produce (that you buy from the farmer) are available almost any day of the week at one of the city’s Green Markets and also at local specialty shops like the Bedford Cheese Shop or the Meat Hook. Not only that, but because vendors range from Vermont to southern New Jersey, we enjoyed a particular food’s season longer as it stretched up the eastern seaboard. Here in a small city in central Virginia, vendors aren’t exactly flocking, so eating locally has a far more strictly defined meaning. That’s one of the main reasons we were thrilled to have signed up for a CSA. (Have you sent in your check yet?) [Read more…]