Posted in cooking, food, vegan, vegetarian, tagged balsamic vinegar, eggplant, onions, peppers, polenta, produce, recipes, tomatoes, vegan, vegetarian on October 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Last night, I had a date. A date with an eggplant.
Eggplant and I have had a touch-and-go relationship. Well, actually, there’s never been much touching. Maybe a one-night stand at my favorite Sri Lankan restaurant where they actually know how to prepare eggplant. Usually, though, my relationship with eggplant consists of me finding it in [...]
Posted in cooking, food, knitting, vegetarian, tagged beans, burgundy, Cascade 220, color, February Lady Sweater, knitting, tomatoes, vegetarian on September 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today’s blog post is brought to you by the color burgundy.
These are some cranberry shelling beans I bought at the farmers’ market. Check out the pods! I think they were referred to as “tongues of fire” beans, and I couldn’t resist. The beans have beautiful cranberry speckles when shelled. Unfortunately, the speckles disappear when cooked.
Pretty [...]
Posted in cooking, vegetarian, tagged eating vegetables, recipes, salad, tomatoes, vegan, vegetarian on September 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In the vein of talking about tomatoes a LOT, I offer you a new and innovative way to enjoy tomatoes!
After a few weeks of making soup out of tomatoes, eating tomatoes on bagels, making pie out of tomatoes, putting tomatoes on pasta, drying tomatoes (more later), I’m still not over them. Although I’m investing a [...]
Posted in food, sustainability, tagged color, conserving, embroidery, farmers' market, local food, peppers, purple, sublime stitching, tomatoes, vegetables on September 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Alarm clock goes off. 6 AM on a Saturday. Gross. I flop out of bed and manage to grab a hoodie and my keys through the fog of slumber. There are a few cats meandering the streets, but that’s about it. It’s early. It’s dark. I’m tired.
But I’m happy. Or I will be. Early Saturday [...]
Posted in cooking, vegetarian, tagged delicious things, soup, tomatoes on September 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A few days ago I attempted to make my way through my plethora of tomatoes by making a roasted tomato soup. I’m happy to report it was a success.
Evidence (and timeline) follows:
(Sorry for the blurriness — it’s not easy to take an oven picture!) About twenty minutes after this shot, the house started to smell [...]
Posted in cooking, vegetarian, tagged cooking, farmers' market, tomatoes on September 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I worked my first farmers’ market this weekend, helping out at the booth of a local organic farm known for their incredible dry-farmed tomatoes. It was great to give out samples (essentially enticing customers in, because apparently I am, as my co-worker put it, “more attractive than the two of them”) and see people’s reactions. [...]
