From the monthly archives:

August 2010

The summer of snow peas

August 28, 2010

I told Paul that June was too late to plant snow peas. (Not that we could have planted them sooner; we had put together the two new raised beds in our front yard in May, and finally had them filled with topsoil and compost in early June.) But peas are one of Paul’s favorite vegetables, [...]

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Local Roots CSA Week 12

August 25, 2010

This week’s Local Roots CSA box brought us: Bunch of carrots Celery (Yay!) Bunch of baby bok choi Broccoli Several cucumbers (including the lemon ones that I love) Ozette fingerling potatoes Arugula Dill Green Beans One zucchini And, finally (by which I mean at long last)… One very large heirloom tomato Hooray!

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Local Roots CSA Week 11

August 17, 2010

In the Local Roots CSA box waiting on my front porch this afternoon I found: Bunch of beets Bag of arugula! Yay! Bunch of tatsoi Bunch of pretty purple radishes Bag of mixed salad greens Head of garlic Several small round cucumbers Bag of basil! Yay! One long green cucumber Two large yellow zucchini We [...]

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Green tomato and crab po’boy

August 12, 2010
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Some foods are as beautiful as they are delicious: perfect strawberries, a golden roast chicken, fresh green spears of asparagus. Some foods make up in taste for what they lack in looks… such as this fried green tomato and Dungeness crab po’boy that I picked up from Where Ya At Matt at the Queen Anne [...]

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Local Roots CSA Week 10

August 10, 2010

A couple of years ago, I documented each week’s produce from our CSA with Local Roots Farm. This year, I’ve been a slacker. It’s week 10 of the CSA, and I’m taking my first photo of the vegetabliciousness that arrived on our front porch today. This week’s box contained: Bunch of carrots (Yay!) Couple of [...]

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Sunday supper

August 8, 2010
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These days, I’m cooking almost entirely from our weekly Local Roots CSA box, our freezer full of chickens and On the Lamb beef, and the goodies we pick up at our neighborhood farmers market. Today, vegetables were threatening to take over the refrigerator, so I chopped up a bunch of them to make a quick [...]

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Begging at the back door

August 7, 2010
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When we got Mamie, our California White hen, several months ago, she was extremely skittish, and watched from a distance as the other chickens came running when I called them for treats. After a few months of settling in to the flock, and discovering that a human in the back yard generally means good things [...]

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Green beans

August 6, 2010
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This was the first harvest from new our raised beds: a small handful of green bush beans and one perfectly golden and sweet Sungold tomato. There will be another small batch of green beans ready to be picked tomorrow. It’s early days yet for everything else…

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