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A busy week provided Jennell at Delicious Potager the opportunity to do Sunday dinner up right. I think Sunday is a perfect day for an afternoon puttering in the kitchen, creating a feast. Serving up local ‘New York’ strip steaks, grilled potatoes with blue cheese and chicken wings, I’d say she succeeded with flying colors!
This week At the Farmer’s Market took us through the steps to whip up what I could only count as a simple and elegant feast of braised short ribs atop a creamy polenta. Braised in red wine and garnished with blue cheese crumbles, it sounds like ultimate celebration of winter. rich and golden homemade broth JLGB [...] The Midwest: El (Fast Grow the Weeds) posted another simply delicious meal. Homemade bread and butter with soup made from the “bean starter” in her canned food stash. The bean bases she makes are a great way to get good soup quickly (great idea El!) and this one ended up with carrots, leek, celery, kale, garlic [...] See that big 103 over there? [edit: you can't see the Seattle Times image anymore because they took it down, so I did too. Suffice it to say, it was 103F here on Wednesday] Yeah, it’s been a brutal return home from our week in Minnesota. We broke all kinds of records yesterday, and while [...] Preserving season has arrived with the red stained fingers and sweet ping of strawberry jam. I know there are people that will tell you to wait until berries get cheaper to make jam, but I’m not one of them. I think that the first berries of the season make the freshest tasting jam. I always make [...] Romanesco broccoli straight from the garden, to be lightly steamed. The smallest of the broilers butchered yesterday. A 2 pound 5 ounce hen, just bigger than a cornish game hen. Spatchcocked Butterflied and destined for the grill. But first, Hood Canal oysters picked up at the farmers market, grilled with a bit of local butter, homegrown [...] Between snow and visitors and life in general I hadn’t made it to a market since before Christmas until yesterday. We’d been relying on the freezer, the small farm stand down the road and the few things we can get at local shops. It was restorative to arrive at the U District market yesterday and find [...] |
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