We don’t eat a lot of cake in the Haggerty household. It’s just the two of us, and we don’t particularly eat a lot of anything, especially sweets. Which is too bad, because I love to bake and can be quite good at it. So when I DO decide that a cake is forthcoming, it [...]
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Now serving: disappointment cake
Posted in CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged baking, cake, chocolate, chocolate cream cheese frosting, cooking, cream cheese, CSA, food, freezer, fridge, refrigerator, sweets, zucchini, zucchini bread on September 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As Pictured Below: Bowlful of Melon
Posted in CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged cantaloupe, CSA, farm, food, melons, photograph, watermelons on August 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Banana melon, some 15 inches long. It tasted like a really sweet cantaloupe. I am SO tired of melons that taste like cantaloupe. What ever happened to old-fashioned watermelons that were sweet, juicy and red inside?
Autumn is such a tease
Posted in CSA, Home, Photographs, tagged August, autumn, cat, CSA, fall, fireplace mantel, gourd, Halloween, marshmallows, Pier 1, trick-or-treat, trick-or-treaters on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
No, Pier 1 Cat, it is NOT fair for something that is so reminiscent of fall to arrive in the CSA box during the hot, hot first week of August. We should be double-checking the marshmallow stocks and finding new ways to dodge trick-or-treaters with this gem on the fireplace mantel.
Tomato Envy
Posted in CSA, Eats, tagged CSA, food, grandparents, tomatoes on July 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m finally getting tomatoes in my CSA box–they seem exceptionally late this year. Another farmer occasionally sets up shop out of the back of his pickup truck in the same parking lot where I pick up my goods every week, and I’m more likely than not to add some extras to my produce selection from [...]
More eggplant excitement
Posted in CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged cooking, CSA, eggplant, eggplant Parmesan, food, garlic, Italian, pasta, sun-dried tomatoes, tomato on July 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I can’t believe I ignored eggplant until this summer. This weekend’s creation was much simpler than Eggplant Parmesan, taking probably a third of the time to make and leaving me with no baked-on cheese to scrub away. I was worried that my half-Italian, tomato-living husband wasn’t going to touch the weird-looking Eggplant Pasta Sauce that [...]
The Enigmatic Eggplant
Posted in CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged cooking, CSA, eggplant, eggplant Parmesan, farm, food, grandfather, Martha Stewart, recipes, summer, tomatoes on June 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The first CSA haul of the summer and I’m already faced with the unknown: eggplant. I guess because my grandfather never grew eggplants, I hardly ever ate them and certainly never had to figure out how to cook them. Indulging my tendency to try things that are probably a bit too complicated, I settled on [...]
Seriously, buy a salad spinner
Posted in CSA, Photographs, tagged Brady Bunch, CSA, food, greens, OXO, salad, salad spinner, Swiss chard on June 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Listed among Things I Never Thought I Would Buy: a salad spinner. They always seemed very Carol Brady, although I guess they were really more Alice Nelson since Mrs. Brady didn’t do much of the cooking on that show. I digress. I spent last summer washing, drying and trying to properly store a weekly mess [...]
CSA time draws near
Posted in CSA, Eats, tagged childhood, cooking, corn, crops, CSA, Dennison's Family Farm, family, farm, farmer's market, food, grandfather, husband, ice cream, Iron Chef, LocalHarvest, mississippi, Mother Nature, South, strawberries, summer, tomatoes, watermelons on February 25, 2010 | 9 Comments »
OK, I know I sound like a shill, but you should totally buy a share in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program this summer. I had the best time last year with my weekly pickups from Dennison’s Family Farm in Elora, Tenn. It really did turn into my own version of Iron Chef, having to [...]
As Pictured Below: An Unbouncy Tigger
Posted in As Pictured Below, CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged CSA, farm, food, heirloom, iPhone, melons on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This fragrant beauty was packed in the latest CSA box. The Tigger melon is an Armenian heirloom variety, and is sweeter than any melon I’ve ever tasted. It’s about the size of a softball, with the consistency and flavor of a cantaloupe. It was almost too pretty to eat. But I persevered.
Is it hot in here, or is it just this awesome poblano souffle?
Posted in CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged baking, co-workers, CSA, dehydrator, food, homemade, iPhone, photograph, souffle, vegetables on July 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m up to my neck in CSA vegetables: Swiss chard, zucchini, cucumbers, poblanos, cherry tomatoes, squash and more. I made tiny souffles (my first ever) on Friday night with a recipe for Poblano and Cheddar Cheese Souffle from the 5 Star Foodie Culinary Adventures blog. I give credit to the Inspired Bites blog for helping [...]
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