Caregiving from my kitchen
First, of course, this is not an actual Asian recipe – all the usual disclaimers about being authentic to Anne’s Kitchen and New York City 21st Century Fusion. It’s also not a real stir fry, though it borrows heavily from that technique. I don’t actually …
You may have noticed that we have been getting tomatoes… Our CSA farm grows many fields of tomatoes, well aware that this is something the Customer Likes. We even got tomatoes the year Blight hit the Northeast badly – by some luck (and some good …
Quickly cook tender, delicious okra whole so that it isn’t slimy! Like many of us, I first encountered okra in gumbo, where the mucilaginous quality contributes to the recipe. (If you don’t use okra, you use gumbo filé to accomplish the same thing, though …
It started with the tomatoes. We have slicing tomatoes for salad, and plum tomatoes for cooking, and we have feasted on fresh, ripe tomatoes. I refuse to buy pink plastic blobs hauled across the continent the rest of the year – we just eat canned …
We have cucumbers. We certainly do have cucumbers… I’ve put them in tabbouli, and we’ve had them sliced, and I plan soup (why is it Soup when I make it with cucumbers, and Smoothie when I make it with peaches?) and it’s just the beginning …