Living local in Eugene, OR
Posted in Garden on Mar 31st, 2009
I have been feeling guilty for not posting more updates recently, but our kitchen has been kind of a boring place. We have been cooking, but mostly stuff that we’ve already shared with you. Most of our time and effort has gone into the garden.
This past weekend, we started prepping the blueberry bed. The native [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Fruits, Grains & legumes, Markets & farms on Mar 27th, 2009
After purchasing twelve blueberry plants this week, I had blueberries on my mind. Luckily, we still have lots in the freezer from last summer. This recipe is a healthy breakfast treat, a great alternative to our standard toast with butter and jam. It has almost no sugar in it, just a little brown sugar for [...]
Posted in Garden on Mar 25th, 2009
We have watched a lot of NCAA basketball the last week, but we have also spent a lot of time in the yard. After planting the 11 fruit trees, we decided to tear up more grass and plant about a dozen blueberries. When he wasn’t watching basketball last weekend, Matt was shoveling away sod to [...]
Posted in Vegetables - warm weather on Mar 17th, 2009
With seeds germinating in the garden, I’ve begun to panic that our freezer will still be full of last year’s bounty when summer arrives. This dish nearly marks the end of our green beans, but we still have tons of corn, a couple quart bags of wax beans, one bag of peas, and countless bags [...]
Posted in Salads, Vegetables - cool weather on Mar 16th, 2009
Inspired by the stir fried corn recipe posted last week on Culinaria Eugenius, I decided to work on our corn stash with this salad. To use local ingredients and what we had in our refrigerator, I adapted the recipe from Blue Ginger and substituted crab for lobster and leeks for fennel. I am sure any [...]
Posted in Meat, Vegetables - cool weather on Mar 12th, 2009
I am no stranger to porchetta. I grew up in Northeastern Pennsylvania where porchetta/porketta sandwiches can be had at most any deli. I always ordered mine with provolone and hot peppers on a hoagie roll. So good. Although the concept is similar, this porchetta is a bit more upscale than the more humble NE PA [...]
Posted in Garden, Markets & farms on Mar 11th, 2009
All eleven fruit trees arrived within a couple days late last week, so we have been digging a lot since last weekend. So far, we have seven of them planted - with two pears and two cherries left to plant. The Danube cherry and Mirabelle plum were purchased from Raintree and the rest were purchased [...]
Posted in Bread, Grains & legumes on Mar 8th, 2009
We are on a roll with bread - two successes in a row. And this one was by far the easiest. It’s perfect for anyone that wants to make homemade bread, but doesn’t want to wait for it to rise. Irish soda bread is considered a quick bread, which means that it uses baking soda, [...]
Posted in Grains & legumes, Weekly bread on Mar 7th, 2009
We are back on the bread wagon, at least for this week. I actually made (or tried to make) bread the last couple of weeks, but the results were disastrous in one case and just kind of blah in another. I tried to make English muffin bread and it didn’t rise at all so I [...]
Posted in Grains & legumes, Markets & farms, Soups on Mar 6th, 2009
Matt has been feeling under the weather most of the week and chicken soup was the perfect antidote. The broth tastes much like chicken tortilla soup. It has a little kick from the dried chile and cumin, which I think is better for sinuses and dulled tastebuds than plain chicken soup.
The soup was also a [...]
