Local vegetables :

Local (And Slow) All the Way: Rabbit And Horticultural Bean Stew

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Every ingredient to this particular dish was local: the beans, the onions, garlic, carrots, celery, leeks, mushrooms, rosemary, thyme, sage and oh, yeah, the rabbit. Oh, wait a minute: the white wine isn’t from Athens, but it is[...]

Sweet Bay Scallops with Vegetables

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If you like scallops, there is none better than the sweet bay scallops harvested in the panhandle of Florida. The open harvest season for the public is in the summer months but scallops are available all year. Bay scallops are white with a[...]

Spaghetti Squash with ground beef and vegetables

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Last week was a weird week in cooking. Let me explain! Like every Saturday, I went to the store and bought groceries. I bought a lot of what I normally bought but for some reason, last week when I would get ready to plan dinner, I couldn't find[...]

Another Reason to Visit a Farmers' Market - Heirloom Vegetables

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In case anybody needed yet another reason to visit their local Farmers' Market I have another one for you - heirloom vegetables. When you think of carrots what do you think about? An orange carrot? What about a yellow carrot or a purple one[...]

Mystery Gourd

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Snake gourd, I think Bones bought these pretty gourds from one of the farmers exhibiting at BVI Farmers’ Week last Saturday.  The farmer called them snake gourds but didn’t offer any direction on how to prepare them[...]

Locavore

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It has been quite a long week, and I’m beyond thrilled that tomorrow is Friday! We have a no-students-present institute day, which are always fun. Not that I don’t love my students, but sometimes it’s nice to hang out with[...]

Meatball

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Happy New Year!!!! Happy 2011!!!! I am looking forward to another WONDERFUL year! I set Resolutions - don't keep em!   This year though... I am going to be able to keep mine.  Here is what 2011 has in store[...]

Locavore

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It has been quite a long week, and I’m beyond thrilled that tomorrow is Friday! We have a no-students-present institute day, which are always fun. Not that I don’t love my students, but sometimes it’s nice to hang out with[...]

Home Grown

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. This post is for anyone who has ever dreamed of owning an olive grove on a sun-drenched Tuscan hillside or a vineyard in the Loire Valley. And this post goes out to all of you who prefer not to be up with the chickens, who hate dirt[...]

Radish Chips

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This past weekend I wanted to try another vegetable that I have not tried in a while. Mainly just to see if I would like it any better than when I was a kid. This week I bought radishes from the market. Radishes.... what to do with radishes. They[...]