Living local in Eugene, OR
Posted in Preserves on Feb 23rd, 2009
It was Matt’s birthday last week and trying to do a mostly homemade gift, I decided on homemade beef jerky, homemade butter, and some locally crafted spirits. The butter didn’t turn out great, but it looks cute in the pig mold from Matt’s mom. You are thinking that I should have come up with something [...]
Posted in Desserts on Feb 19th, 2009
I got this recipe from my very dear friend Drake almost 10 years ago when I asked him how he wanted to celebrate his birthday. Not known for being subtle, he replied by handing me an index card with this recipe on it. Since then, I have baked it once or twice a year and [...]
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 Bread, Weekly bread on Feb 10th, 2009
This is installment number three of the bread project. Despite being on the couch or in bed most of the day with flu-like symptoms, I managed to bake a couple loaves of cornmeal bread. It turned out a little more dense than I expected, most likely because I didn’t let it rise quite long enough [...]
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Salads, Vegetables - cool weather on Feb 9th, 2009
We still have a month before the first day of spring, but this is the best description for something with peas in it. We brought this dish to a community potluck honoring our local farmers and it was gone before we made it through the line (sorry no photo of the final dish). I’ve made [...]
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 Bread, Weekly bread on Feb 2nd, 2009
I can hardly believe that I made this bread with my own hands and my own oven. Perhaps it is the Irish in me that can’t resist anything with potatoes… I am not going to overanalyze - I love this bread.
Looking to expand my bread horizons, I visited my favorite place to buy cookbooks - [...]
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 Bread, Weekly bread on Jan 26th, 2009
This is my first attempt at making kneaded bread and the first post of a somewhat regular (weekly-ish) bread baking project I have decided to work on. The project came about when I realized how little I know about grains, despite my passion for locally grown beans and grains. I have made the infamous no-knead [...]
Posted in Desserts on Jan 25th, 2009
I know… black bean brownies - what the heck? But they are really, really good. Matt proclaims they are the best brownies he has ever had - not too fudgy, but not cake-like either. I agree with his assessment. With all of our recent bean meals, I was looking for something a little different than [...]
