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We found this savoury one-bowl meal in Greene on Greens by Bert Greene. You could use this week’s garlic scapes instead of the garlic clove. Start with a pinch of cinnamon - the flavour is subtle.
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Thursday, 21 June 2012
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Moroccan Grated Carrot Salad
Whitsend’s first carrots of the season are coming soon! This recipe, from Claudia Roden's The Book of Jewish Food, looks especially nice when you combine carrots of different colours.
Monday, 18 June 2012
Pasta with lentils and kale
Recipe from 2011
What to do with this week's kale? This recipe is a good starting point. To make life easier, cook the lentils the day before, or use canned lentils or some other kind of canned beans instead (drained and rinsed). This recipe is derived from Moosewood Restaurant Cooking for Health.
What to do with this week's kale? This recipe is a good starting point. To make life easier, cook the lentils the day before, or use canned lentils or some other kind of canned beans instead (drained and rinsed). This recipe is derived from Moosewood Restaurant Cooking for Health.
Monday, 11 June 2012
“Farmer! There’s a worm in my squash, a fly in my peas, and a weed in my salad!”
New life on an old line. It happens. At Elmtree, the other interns and I giggled that this was the customer’s assurance that the food was pesticide and herbicide free. However, that kind of response to a complaint would not be very customer friendly.
Shortly after harvest, all produce is either swished or submerged into ice-cold well water. The main reasons are to knock off any additional soil; and to take the “ground heat” out of the produce - allowing it to last longer during transit and storage in your fridge. It is at this stage that we can separate clover leaves, etc. from the cut and come again greens. However, some will get through. I found a very fine example of well-fed, carefully watered, wholesome sprig of ragweed masquerading as Shinginku. Fortunately, I found this before it made it into my salad.
Bugs in the food are treated somewhat differently. We put a couple drops of organic vinegar into the water before submerging the produce – a trick I learned during my internship. This causes bugs to fall off or let go of the leaf they are riding on, and they usually fall to the bottom of the tank or float off. So finding six (or more) legged creatures in your greens should not be too commonplace. Let me know if you find otherwise.
So please remember that we do our part to keep your food free of little annoyances, and bear in mind that there is far worse than finding a “fly in your soup”.
Talk to you later,
Bob
New life on an old line. It happens. At Elmtree, the other interns and I giggled that this was the customer’s assurance that the food was pesticide and herbicide free. However, that kind of response to a complaint would not be very customer friendly.
Shortly after harvest, all produce is either swished or submerged into ice-cold well water. The main reasons are to knock off any additional soil; and to take the “ground heat” out of the produce - allowing it to last longer during transit and storage in your fridge. It is at this stage that we can separate clover leaves, etc. from the cut and come again greens. However, some will get through. I found a very fine example of well-fed, carefully watered, wholesome sprig of ragweed masquerading as Shinginku. Fortunately, I found this before it made it into my salad.
Bugs in the food are treated somewhat differently. We put a couple drops of organic vinegar into the water before submerging the produce – a trick I learned during my internship. This causes bugs to fall off or let go of the leaf they are riding on, and they usually fall to the bottom of the tank or float off. So finding six (or more) legged creatures in your greens should not be too commonplace. Let me know if you find otherwise.
So please remember that we do our part to keep your food free of little annoyances, and bear in mind that there is far worse than finding a “fly in your soup”.
Talk to you later,
Bob
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