I confess that before I kicked carbohydrates I used to slather this incredible chutney onto crackers loaded with goat cheese. It’s quite irresistible and makes a great hors d’oeuvre for a dinner party. But it also works as a traditional chutney with your favorite spicy Indian food, bringing intoxicating flavors of ginger, red pepper, cinnamon. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'preserving'
Green Tomato And Apple Chutney
September 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Recipes, garden
Tags: canning·green tomatoes·preserving
Preserving Eggplant In Olive Oil
September 3rd, 2009 · 14 Comments · Recipes, garden
Thank the genius who discovered that eggplant (other things, too) can be stored almost indefinitely when covered with olive oil. My wife normally does not care for eggplant–she especially dislikes the texture–but we served this preserved eggplant at our wedding and have held a special fondness for it ever since. I like to pull out [...]
Tags: eggplant·olive oil·preserving
Potted Cheese
November 13th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
When I’m throwing a party and not feeling very rich I often put a potted cheese out for hors d’oeuvres. This is one way to turn an economical slicing cheese into something exotic looking that spreads on a cracker.
Potted cheese is simply cheese grated and marinated in beer, then spiked with dried mustard and [...]
Green Tomatoes
August 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I have thirteen tomato plants growing in our garden, which means that a portion of my daily rounds entails admiring all the green tomatoes as they grow huge on the vine and anticipating what an avalanche of ripe red tomatoes we will soon have.
But then I think of some of our favorite tomato preparations [...]
Tags: garden·green tomatoes·preserving·summer
Yes, We Have Potatoes
February 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
All winter I’ve been digging periodically in our potato bed and coming away with spuds wonderfully preserved underground. There was still one small area untouched and I wondered if it could still yield edible potatoes. Was this possible?
Finally, the rains stopped long enough for a look-see. I plunged my forked spade into the soil and…out [...]
Tags: preserving
Tomatoes Gone but Not Forgotten
November 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
A stillness overtakes the garden as the plants pass their prime. Or maybe it’s just lack of expectation that removes all tension from the air. The fall crops–lettuce, radishes, arugula, greens–are ready for occasional harvesting. But all the jubilant growth of summer–the real fireworks in the vegetable patch–are missing. The tomatoes, for instance, are [...]
Tags: preserving·tomatoes
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.
