It would probably make more sense to do my CSA posts on the day when I actually get the box. Unfortunately, that day is also RPG night, so I’m usually pretty busy, and then don’t get to it over the weekend. Sorry ’bout that! Here’s the CSA box for this week: Kristina got the beets […]
How I Spent My Summer Evening
With all that food coming from the CSA, we’re starting to have a bounty of goodness over here. Which is great — but things need to be eaten or otherwise dealt with. So this is what I did this evening: These are bread-and-butter zucchini pickles from Linda Ziedrich‘s The Joy of Pickling. This is only […]
What I did with my CSA box this week
This week’s box contained the following: Kristina got the chard and beets and some of the rest of the other food. We used the oranges, carrots, and radishes as part of the 4th of July party — orange wedges and a veggie tray that also included cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, and cucumber. Veggie dip was a […]
As promised, a brisket update
General verdict: tasty! Specific verdict: Uncle Pasto and I need a bit more learning on how to control a smoker fire. No no no — nothing bad happened. We were using the charcoal from the bottom of the bag, and it seems the smaller pieces burn hotter than the larger ones. We had a hard […]
Kitchen Lit: Books I Can’t Live Without
Today’s post is brought to you by the inimitable W. Park Kerr and Norma Kerr, the founders of the El Paso Chile Company, and their book, The El Paso Chile Company Texas Border Cookbook, is a book I cannot live without. Now, it’s Texan, and the portions reflect the same. If you prefer portion sizes […]
MISSION CRITICAL: Temple Garden Chowder
One of the downsides to taking a three-day vacation when you’ve got a CSA … OMG, what do you do with all the food when you get back? I’m glad it’s been June-Gloomy today, because this would NOT have been made in hot weather. But it successfully used up a whole pile of veggies I […]
And sometimes things don’t always go wel
I didn’t realize when I finished watering the pots by hand on Thursday that I turned off the water at the tap instead of at the hose. Ooooops. /: What this meant is that I got home to a slightly peaked-looking garden, and a bunch of my San Marzano tomatoes had gotten a case of […]
Oh yeah, that zucchini salad
I did promise a post about that too, didn’t I? Last post for the night, and then I’ll be mostly caught up. (: Thanks for bearing with me! So like any crazy person who plants zucchini, we’ve already got plenty growing off of just one plant. And of course, there’s some in the CSA box. […]
PB&C
Nope, that PB doesn’t stand for peanut butter. It stands for parsnip and bacon. The C is for carrot, and together, they make a pretty awesome sandwich. We’ve been doing a lot of sandwiches lately in the Pasto household — they’re tasty and quick to put together, but you can still dress them up to […]
Peach-Ricotta Open-Faced Sandwiches
A few months ago, I read a cookbook called ‘wichCraft, by Tom Colicchio and Sisha Ortuzar. It’s based on the menu of the restaurant of the same name. The book’s pretty cool — the pictures are gorgeous, and what recipes I’ve tried out of it have been tasty. The emphasis, obviously, is on sandwiches and […]