What do you do when you’ve got a small cabbage head and a bunch of small carrots from your CSA? Not to mention that your mother bought you half a nagaimo (Japanese mountain yam) and a couple of chayote squash for no reason? Soup! And I must be absolutely mad to be making soup on a [...]
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A (mostly) white vegetable soup recipe
Posted in csa, home cooking, recipes, soup, tagged chayote squash, csa, food, nagaimo, recipe, shiso, soup on July 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »
shiso/wine/soy sauce chicken with steamed veggies
Posted in csa, edible garden, home cooking, tagged ancient wisdom modern kitchen, baby turnips, chicken, edible garden, food, kohlrabi, perilla, shiso on June 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As for last week’s CSA, I steamed my baby turnips and kohlrabi. I peeled the skin off the kohlrabi but I should have peeled a little deeper. It was quite fibrous and hard to chew. Flavor-wise, the two veggies are very similar: very clean tasting and a sweet. I preferred the turnips over the kohlrabi. [...]
edible garden, no. 2, 2011
Posted in edible garden, tagged basil, borage, edible garden, herbs, nasturtium, rosy chives, shiso, tarragon on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Borage – I hear it tastes a bit like cucumber and that it’s good in companion planting. I’ve never had it before so this is in my garden mostly for curiosity.
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