Posts Tagged ‘vegetables’

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

Support Your Local and Regional Growers, Save Cash

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Fresh ZucchiniSo, Wednesday was market day.

And, by market I don’t mean a trip to the nearest strip-mall supermarket with cart corrals, though I shop at Giant and Safeway like everyone else.  It was walk-to-market day.  I work from home one day a week, and every other Wednesday I’m afforded the luxury of my own private branch office in Catonsville, MD.  Not only to I get to save 20% on my commuting fuel consumption, I can walk or ride to somewhere interesting on our “main street” at lunch time.

Every Wednesday morning, from May to November, we have a local farmers’ market.  It’s small, it’s in the community center parking lot, but it’s better than just about any grocery store’s produce department. All vendors must grow or produce for themselves all of the goods they sell.  No “faux-farmers” offloading trucks of greenhouse tomatoes from produce distributors; these folks grow it, care for it, pick it, and truck it to your community.  We use the farmers’ market a lot.  When I’m home on Tuesdays instead of Wednesday, Theresa makes the trip to gather the goods.

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