Living local in Eugene, OR
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 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 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 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, Salads on Dec 10th, 2008
Unlike our President Elect, I love beets. And this is my all-time favorite beet recipe. I have tried others and always wish that I had just made this one. If you haven’t tried beets in years or only know beets from salad bars - this is your recipe.
The beets are roasted, which is the easiest, [...]
