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Broccoli Packaging?

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

My semi-weekly farmer’s market trip beget a lovely head of purple broccoli. I personally dislike most tree-like vegetables, but hubby likes them. So, the intrepid cook (that’s me) went on an internet hunt for good broccoli recipes. I found the following on a recipe:
“Cook the broccoli as directed on its packaging.”
Holy Crap! Packaging? Seriously?

You can see the entire recipe here:

http://www.broccolirecipes.net/easy-quiche.html

BTW, I also found this ingredient:
“1 (1 pound) loaf processed cheese food, cubed”
Okay… I know that this is just Velveeta, but seriously? Yuck.

Still sounds appealing? The full recipe is here:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Broccoli-Cheese-Soup/Detail.aspx

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Mid-August Farmers Market Bounty

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Here is a photo of some of the food I got at the Catonsville Farmers Market on a Wednesday in mid-August. The dark purple pods are okra. You can also see yellow and red peppers, corn on the cob, onions, peaches, beans, garlic and maybe some other kinds of produce.
The other photo is some of the August vine-ripened tomato harvest from our garden. So fresh and so good!

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Theresa’s Decadent Chocolate Cookies

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Click below for an awesome chocolate cookie recipe. I searched and couldn’t find a recipe for really rich and decedent chocolate cookies, so I developed this one. The texture has the best of both worlds – cookies and brownies. Enjoy!

The second page includes a chart of scoop/disher sizes. Ice cream scoops come in many sizes for a variety of applications. Who knew? Alton Brown recommends using a #20 disher to scoop his cookie dough onto the cookie sheets. I researched what that meant and gathered the info to share with you all.

Theresa’s Decadent Chocolate Cookies

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Colorful Carrots

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

I bought these colorful carrots at the Farmers Market few weeks ago.  I served them with cheese ravioli.
The second photo shows them cut up so you can see the color was different on the inside.

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More Pickled Beets

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Beets On the Way to Being Pickled

Beets On the Way to Being Pickled

These colorful beets from the Farmers Market were so pretty that I wanted to share them with you. This photo was taken just before stirring all of the ingredients. This will be my second batch of pickled beets. I am using the “Red Turnip Pickles” recipe from American Home Cooking.  You can see it here: http://totallyrandomfiesta.blogspot.com/

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Cold Crop, Warm Heart

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Red Cabbage by Jeff Werner used under Creative Commons licenseIt’s foggy and chilled outside, the end of November, and a steady, cold, drizzling rain is falling.

The lazy days of summer have given way and passed through the gentle days of a Mid-Atlantic October.  Now comes the dreary onset of a Maryland winter.  Around here, we always have to pass through the damp mid- to late-November rains to get to the cold, crisp clear winter days.

Today’s a day for a comforting, warming meal.  Tender greens and light summer flavors are out of season.  In cooler climes, this is the time of year most of us should start changing over to the flavors that sustain until warmer days return.  Root vegetables, potatoes, brassicas like cauliflower, kale, brocolli, and cabbage.  Now’s the time to break out the canned and preserved bounties of our summer gardens.  The flavors are changed, but provide a reminder of what to look forward to next year.

I’m going to tell you how to take the humble red cabbage, much-maligned vegetable that it is, and transform it into pure autumn.  All you need to do is slice it coarsely, combine it with some diced Granny Smith apple, and pan-braise it in an acidic liquid in order to keep its color.  Short cooking times keep it from becoming the red mush we remember from bad childhood meals, and a finish with butter transforms the dish into a glorious representation of fall flavor.

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