new recipes with a new baby

I made a recipe I’ve never made, for something I might not have thought you could make at home, and it was still compatible with having a new baby. (Possibly even more than the roast beef, which required a lot of slicing to put it away when we should have been sleeping – but it [...]

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charcuterie addiction

A few months ago, I got my first try at sausage making. Soon after, I borrowed Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn’s Charcuterie from the library, made salt cod from it, drooled some more over the recipes, renewed the library book, forgot to return it, paid the fine, and, concluding that the book really needed to [...]

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adventures in brining

Last weekend, I started brining my first corned beef – my first adventure in home-cured meats. Only since I haven’t had it since I was a kid, and since it was a chance to get a hunk of meat from Chestnut farms for just a dollar, I brined a tongue tip, and not a brisket. [...]

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Waste not, want not

I’ve been defrosting a chicken from Chestnut Farm – all of our meat from there comes frozen, and we defrost it when we need it. (Well, a few days ahead of when we think we’re going to need it… but sometimes this doesn’t work out as planned!) Unfortunately, this means that when it’s possible to [...]

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a delicious contradiction

I often make a generic “stir fry” to which I add various Asian seasonings we stock in the kitchen regularly. It’s a great way to use some assorted vegetables from the farmshare, and whatever protein you have lying around ready to use. But I rarely try to make it from a recipe – once you [...]

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