It’s been a little bit hectic in the geek household and our blogging has suffered. We’ve been enjoying the CSA but haven’t made anything I would deem picture worthy. My fridge is full of food yet we’re going to a friend’s to eat. I guess this isn’t prime blogging season or something. I fully intended [Continue]
I know what you’re thinking, “but don’t you get farm-fresh veggies delivered by your CSA each and every week?” Yes, I do but what can I say, I’m a greedy geek. Sometimes the CSA just doesn’t provide everything I want to eat each week. I know this may come as a shock, but what else [Continue]
So it’s Daring Bakers time again, and wouldn’t you know it, I’m a day late again. This time around the challenge was a rich laminated yeast dough: The Danish Pastry braid. I’ve made both croissants and danish years ago in pastry school, but I’ve always shied away from making these at home. You see, laminated [Continue]
Once again I feel like the Iron Chef; I get secret ingredients each week and I get to come up with new and (hopefully) innovative dishes to tempt the taste buds and please the eater. Did I mention I’ve missed getting CSA veggies yet? This week’s secret ingredients were spring greens — lots of them. [Continue]
Friday was an exciting day, it was the first delivery of our new CSA veggies from Red Fire Farm. Being a huge food geek, I was excited for days before this and was counting down the days until the delivery. For the less geeky, a CSA is community supported agriculture – a local farm that [Continue]