Dear Katie, I too have continued to cook but stopped writing about it. Forgive me! To be fair, we did need to take a brief hiatus to meet up in southern California, which was lovely. I’m getting back to it because I made something so fantastic that Eric immediately asked me if I was going… Read More The Ultimate Tomato Sauce
Dear Charlotte, It’s been a bit more than busy back in the ‘Ham, and while I haven’t stopped cooking, I have stopped writing about it. I want to tell you about some amazing chili I made on Monday, though. Unfortunately, I’m a little short on pictures because I had my brother and his girlfriend over… Read More Crickets
Dear Katie, The day has finally arrived! I’ve started getting CSA shares. I was expecting that the farm might need a few weeks of ramping up, but right out of the gate, we got two overflowing boxes of veggies! I started this post last week so I was going to talk all about the first… Read More Finally!
Dear Katie, My apologies for the hiatus. As is often the case, life got a bit crazy. But I’m back, and I’m making amends – not only for my absence, but for the beet pancake. I felt bad that I led you astray with that one. So when I saw you still had beets on… Read More Mea Culpa
Dear Charlotte: I took your advice and went for the Coq au Vin…with some liberties. I’m calling it Coq au Katie which looks really stupid when you type it out, but sounds less so when you say it aloud. The hardest thing for me cooking is knowing when to deviate from the recipe, and when… Read More Coq au Katie
Dear Katie, I’m sorry that the beet rosti didn’t work out! The recipe does have a somewhat narrow sweet spot, so I suppose it was sort of mean of me to suggest it as a first attempt at cooking beets. I hope you’ll give it another go if you get beets again – feel free… Read More Cooking with Wine
Dear Charlotte: I got started a little late (as in last night) in trying to do the rosti. It didn’t go so well. In fact, I’m not including any pictures here. I’m not sure what it was that I messed up (timing? heat? butter?) but it was just a giant mess. I did like four… Read More Failed Experiment
Dear Katie, I’m glad the soup was a success! It looks delicious and I appreciate all of the pictures of the process. Rainbow carrots are as tasty as they are gorgeous, and I think that might be one of the prettiest rainbow carrots I’ve seen. I was afraid that the soup might be time consuming… Read More Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
Dear Charlotte: You managed to find a recipe that required four (!) of the items in my box. The Moroccan Fava Bean Soup was a tremendous success! (Shoot, I think that word is banned now.) More than half my life ago, I took a trip to Morocco and have been in love with everything… Read More Moroccan Fava Bean Soup
Dear Katie, I’m excited to embark on this culinary collaboration with you! I must admit that I’m jealous that your CSA has already started. I’ve got probably another month or so before I start getting my shares. I want to take you through my thought process because I think it speaks to the level of… Read More Week One Ideas