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Category Archives: cooking
Winter Fare
Ah…winter soups…
Everything but the kitchen sink, right? Continue reading
Posted in cooking, food, winter
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Tomatillos are Tasty
Scott invented a new tomatillo dish. It’s savory and spicy, with browned pork. Continue reading
Posted in cooking, tomatillos
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Burgandy Beauties
Royal Burgandy Beans!
These lovely beans are dark purple, but bright green just under the skin. The purple pigment is a built-in indicator of done-ness in the kitchen – the whole bean turns green when ready to eat. Often I steam my beans, or put them through a light boil. The purple slowly fades to green. When we sauteed them the other day (with our freshly harvested garlic – YUM!), some spots were cooking and others were not – creating these gorgeous purple-and-green patterns on the beans. We left some of them with purple blotches, but they were indeed not quite cooked!
Queso de cabra
All this time I’ve spent trying to perfect mozzarella (which turns out about 50% of the time) and I’d never tried the much easier goat cheese!! I bought 1 QT of pasteurized goat milk at Trader Joe’s and finally decided … Continue reading
Posted in cooking, DIY, homemade cheese
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