Peach Salsa

I went a salsa canning kick earlier this week. Unlike the 10 lbs of tomatoes I bought 2 weeks ago for $2.50, these 10 lbs (this time for $5) actually got almost all used BEFORE I had to cut off large chunks due to stupid fungus. I’m going to make these recipes VERY bare bones. [...]

Bucky’s Butchery

I hesitate to write this post. Because doing so means the place may get more business. And then I’ll have to share. And I don’t like sharing good bacon. I want it all to myself. But when the bacon email goes out, I get there early and I buy in quantity (probably more next time). [...]

Montys Blue Plate Diner

We had dinner at Monty’s Blue Plate Dinner last night. The ManBeast was in the mood for “American” food, in other words, a burger. A search on Yelp turned up Monty’s with a few good reviews that their food was actually decent. Add in a gluten free menu (pdf), and we decided to give it [...]

Crimini butternut squash risotto

Tonights dinner is Herb rubbed Sirloin Roast with crimini butternut squash risotto. I’d write about the roast, but you wouldn’t honestly get anything more from me than you can with that link (other than to MORE than halve the salt, and if you don’t like spicy, dial back the cayenne, and its perfectly edible if [...]

Dinner, now with pictures!

This time, I actually remembered to try to take pictures both before AND after cooking my dinner! I was on my own for dinner tonight, so I decided to embellish a little bit and make myself something nice. Here’s what I started with (ok, well, most of the ingredients): I picked up a 0.8 lb [...]

Butter Chicken

This is honestly the first Butter Chicken recipe I’ve come across that actually tastes close to what I think Butter Chicken should taste like. I think it could still use some spice modifications, but this will be a make every once in a while recipe. The recipe is from Mark’s Daily Apple. Below I’ve written [...]

Saute mix

Some of you will remember from last year my love of the saute mix from Harmony Valley that came in my CSA boxes. I’ve been missing that with my CSA this year with Vermont Valley. So I decided yesterday to venture to the farmer’s market to fix that. Now, I could have simply gone to [...]

Veggie Stir Fry

I wasn’t sure what side to put with the nut crusted pork last night, and I wasn’t really in the mood for salad. So I went half primal. I made a veggie stir fry to be served over rice. The SO had his serving of carbs, while I was able to minimize it and eat [...]

Gluten Free Pizza

I’ve been using this recipe for gluten free pizza for quite some time. It comes out pretty good, but it was time for a change. I couldn’t decide on one recipe, so I combined recipes and techniques. This recipe from the Gluten Free Cooking School was the base recipe, but I used Gluten Free Mommy’s [...]

CSA season has started!

CSA season started for me last Thu. I picked up my first box from Vermont Valley Community Farm. Included in my first box was spinach, salad mix, turnips, lettuce head, chives, radishes, rhubarb, and potatoes. We also got a small basil plant. Me being me, I’ve already hit the salad hard core and am almost [...]

Eating seasonally

Eating seasonally in Wisconsin can be hard for part of the year. While much of the rest of the country is celebrating spring vegetables, spring is really just starting here. And that was in full evidence at the Farmer’s Market this morning. While I’ve seen tons of recipes popping up for asparagus, as the quintessential [...]

Eat local

There are a few things I’d like to write about, and hopefully they won’t be too disjointed. — I’ve come to realize that I don’t really have a lot of extra time right now. I don’t have time to sit and really research what I feel I need to in terms of my diet and [...]

Vermont Valley

I’ve chosen a CSA for this year: Vermont Valley. They were my second choice last year, but there are a few reasons why I decided to go with them this year. One is the shorter season. The fall season of Harmony Valley was really wasteful for me. I’m not quite sure why, but I figure [...]

New CSA

I’m on the hunt for a new CSA for 2010. I took a look at MACSAC’s list for this year and narrowed it down to 12 farms so far. And seeing as a few have March 1st deadlines for cheaper prices, it looks like I need to be deciding sooner rather than later. If you’ve [...]

What’s left to use

I’ve got a ton of stuff sitting out on the porch that really needs to be used up. Tons of squash. turnips galore baby beets rutabega celeriac parsnips carrots daikon cabbage sweet potatoes sunchokes onions, a metric ton garlic If you any suggestions for what I can do with these, I’m all ears. I want [...]