Living local in Eugene, OR
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 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 [...]
Posted in Grains & legumes, Markets & farms, Salads on Mar 2nd, 2009
I am still reeling from an amazing weekend and will hopefully be posting a recap of Organicology and our visit to Beast in a future post. For now, I will share a great recipe, again out of the Heirloom Beans cookbook. The recipe recommends Wren’s Egg beans, but I used Ayers Creek Farm borlotto lamon [...]
Posted in Grains & legumes, Salads, Vegetables - cool weather on Feb 11th, 2009
Whenever I think that it’s time to take a break from legumes, I see a recipe that I have to try. The most recent one was recently posted by Deb at Smitten Kitchen, who learned about it from Molly at Orangette, who found it in a cookbook. Phew! They each tweaked the recipe a little [...]
Posted in Grains & legumes, Vegetables - cool weather on Feb 6th, 2009
My very easy to please husband objected to soup this week. I can’t imagine why he is sick of soup - we have only eaten soup several times a week for the last three months. Determined to have a bean meal and keep marital harmony, I needed a non-soup recipe. Looking through the Heirloom Beans [...]
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Garden, Grains & legumes, Salads, Vegetables - cool weather on Jan 31st, 2009
Its been a relatively quiet blog week for us so I wanted to finish the week with something really good. It was supposed to serve 4 but we ate almost all of it for one dinner. I didn’t even give Matt a chance for the leftovers.
It is another recipe from Heirloom Beans, which I continue [...]
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Grains & legumes on Jan 20th, 2009
We kicked off our new President’s inauguration with oven fried buttermilk chicken thighs, roasted sunchokes, and farro with spinach. Part of the Dark Days Challenge is to try a new vegetable in January. We finally got around to adding something new to the mix with the sunchokes (also called Jerusalem artichokes) that I purchased at [...]
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Grains & legumes, Soups on Jan 19th, 2009
Somehow we managed to accumulate about 3 pounds of local black turtle beans and the freezer is still ejecting random bags of frozen corn or green beans whenever I open it, so the quest of using our local food stash continues.
I had this recipe from Smitten Kitchen marked in my favorites since the fall when [...]
