More kale from the garden! And some swiss chard from Highland Orchards. Just right for this recipe I saw on the NY Times cooking site – Ligurian Kale Pie – a free-form pie with an olive oil crust. This is a very simple looking food, but don’t be deceived, the taste was fabulous! It was light…
Category: Main Dish
Calzone with Tomato, Kale and Cheese Filling
This is a great time of year; veggies in the garden are coming in, typically one at a time. This week it is the red russian kale. I have plans for some fun, different dinners. Tonight it was calzones. The filling on this was great, we had to force ourselves to stop eating it before…
Garden Fresh Fried Rice
I was not in the mood to fuss over dinner tonight. I didn’t even want to cook, but I had a lot of fresh veggies calling to me: broccoli and bok choy from my garden, asparagus from Filasky’s Produce, and sundry other veggies including carrots, celery, and onions. I decided on a stir fry, the next…
Roasted Cauliflower Melt
I had 8 cauliflower plants growing in my garden. The operative word being “had”. I went out one morning to find the tops eaten off of every one of them. All that was left were the base leaves. Incorrectly, I blamed the bunnies and tried to figure out how they were getting into the garden,…
Ramen with Quorn and Bok Choy
Before I made this, I was pretty confident that it would be good, but I didn’t realize it would be delicious! I used a recipe for spicy ramen with beef an bok choy from Food Network Magazine as the base to kick off from, but because I was using Quorn and cooking for a 6 year old,…
Spaghetti with Kale and Garlic Chips
My early harvest items dictated our dinner tonight. I harvested the heirloom kale (which looks more like chard, but tastes like kale, but you can use the stems like chard). Because of the similarities to chard, I decided to use it in a dish I normally make using chard – Spaghetti with Swiss Chard and…
Pasta with Crispy Breadcrumbs and Broccoli
First harvest – broccoli, kale, spinach, and some bolted bok choy. Time to start cooking from my garden again! When I think Geoffrey Zakarian, kid-friendly dishes is not what comes to mind. But his Elbow Macaroni with Crispy Breadcrumbs and Broccoli is exactly that. This was a big hit, simple flavors but tasty enough for the adults…
Yotam Ottolenghi’s Chicken with Caramelized Onion & Cardamom Rice
I have an admission to make, this is not a dish about cooking locally; although the chicken is locally raised. I would have included this recipe even if the chicken wasn’t local, it is just THAT good! Don’t be fooled by the lack of bright colors, this “chicken and rice” has an abundance of flavor….
Penne with Asparagus, Snap Peas and Kale
My garden is planted! Still some more mulching to do, but otherwise it is done. Now the fun starts…weeding! This year we have, from bottom to top: strawberries (outside the picture), garlic, Jerusalem artichokes, parsley, bok choy, leeks, red Russian kale, carrots, spinach, cauliflower, tarragon, broccoli, okra, some weird heirloom kale, basil, edamame, jalapeño, eggplants,…
Asparagus, Tomato & Fontina Frittata
I am happy to say that it is still asparagus season in Delaware. So when I was at the farm market today, I bought about 3 lbs! Get ready for a few asparagus posts – if they turn out well, that is. I love asparagus frittatas. This on is a slight riff on Giada De…
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