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March 2011

Mar
29
2011

The CSA Project: Butternut Squash Gnocchi

This ends round one of The CSA Project, which included recipes for Swiss chard and carrots, and not one, but two for butternut squash. (This recipe was influenced by two recipes found online, one for the gnocchi, the other for the sauce.) What you’re gonna need 1 medium, or 2 small, butternut squash (about 2 [...]

Mar
26
2011

The CSA Project: Curried Butternut Squash Soup

As I’m sure you recall, our last haul from the CSA included carrots, Swiss chard, and butternut squash. Here’s our first use of the squash… Don’t worry if you have a lot of butternut squash; it, and any hard winter squash, will keep for months in a cool dry place (not the refrigerator). I adapted [...]

Mar
22
2011

The CSA Project: Lentil Soup

This week’s haul from the CSA: carrots, Swiss chard, butternut squash. Here’s what we did with the carrots and Swiss chard. Stay tuned for the butternut squash. Even though it topped an unseasonable 70 degrees Friday, the veggies from the CSA this week are saying soup.  Carrots and Swiss chard are two of the main [...]

Mar
21
2011

The CSA Project

The questions we hear so often, “I’d like to join a CSA, but what do I do with all that food? How to I keep it from going bad? And what do I make of the exotic things I’ve never encountered before, like garlic scapes, celeriac, or sun chokes?” This year we are going to [...]

Mar
5
2011

Red Beet Eggs

Waste not, Want not… So what do you do with all that lovely beet juice after you have eaten your pickled beets?  In our house we make pickled eggs, or as Dan calls them, red beet eggs. It’s a fairly easy process.  Hard boil your eggs.  The best way to do this is to put [...]