Tuna and chickpea salad with golden cherry tomatoes.
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Shopping: none
This salad was tossed together with a can of tuna from the pantry, an opened can of chickpeas in the fridge, a few slices of red onion and some Dr. Carolyn tomatoes from the garden. It was displayed on this week’s green salad [...]
Entries from September 2008
Lunch
September 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Tags: lunch·salad·sustainable fisheries·tuna
Kids Pickle Watermelon Rind
September 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
When I asked the kids in one of my “food appreciation” classes if they’d ever heard of pickled watermelon, one girl eagerly raised her hand.
“My grandmother always has some for Thanksgiving,” she said. And gradually we learned that each year she travels with her family to grandma’s house near Huntsville, Alabama, for a traditional [...]
Tags: pickles·watermelon
Pickled Okra
September 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
I recently heard from two friends who had very different reactions to the jars of pickled okra I had given them. One exclaimed how wonderfully spicy the pickles were. The other wondered why hers were so mild.
I puzzled over this for a while, then realized that one of these friends had received a jar [...]
Neighbors Sharing Venison
September 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
Having a front-yard kitchen garden brings us into contact with all kinds of admirers. People stop on the sidewalk to talk about the garden they remember from their grandmother. Or about their own garden. Drivers stopped at the traffic signal on the corner shout encouragement and questions out their car windows. “What you got growing [...]
Penne with Leeks & Roasted Cauliflower
September 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Don’t look now, but I think I detect the flavors of fall creeping into the menu.
I like simple pasta dishes. The whole wheat varieties have arrived at a point where you no longer have to fear they’ll have the flavor and texture of cardboard. They really are extremely good. I also like robust flavors [...]
Tags: cauliflower·leeks·pasta
We’re In Martha Stewart Living
September 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
At the time of the Civil War, there were around 800 commercially viable varieties of apples in this country. Now there are perhaps 30, although you will find even fewer at the market at any given time. What a come-down for a noble fruit that arrived here with the colonists and once was considered [...]
Tags: apples·Martha Stewart
Kids Put Up Simple Dills
September 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
High on my list of priorities is finding a simple, satisfying recipe for vinegar-brined dill pickles that will store in the pantry for a long time. For purposes of my “food appreciation” classes, it would also help if the whole process–from cucumber to finished pickle jar–could be accomplished in less than an hour.
Well, this [...]
Guilty Pleasure on the Jersey Shore
September 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
We couldn’t very well make travel plans to the International Pickle Day festival in New York without visiting our friend Tom. Tom recently traded his condo digs in New York City for a house in Red Bank about an hour south on the Jersey Shore. In addition to having an incredibly well-preserved main street, [...]
Pickled in New York
September 15th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
I swear I am not making this up: There is an International Pickle Day festival and we were there this past weekend in New York City. This celebration of brine and fermentation is presented by the Lower East Side Business Improvement District and the New York Food Museum. An entire block of Orchard Street [...]
Tags: festivals·New York City·pickles
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
