Life is funny. There you are, making your Giambotta, marveling at its resemblance to its first cousin Ratatouille, when along comes Caponata. It seems that the Sicilian version of Caponata introduces something in a brine, like olives or capers. Some are arguing that if it isn’t Sicilian, it isn’t Caponata. I’m reserving judgment until I [...]
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Giambotta
In Pixar’s movie, Ratatouille, the food critic is dismayed at being served a peasant dish, ratatouille. But as he tastes this dish, made so well, so lovingly, with the perfect co-mingling of flavors, he experiences a complete transformation. It could happen. Then there’s giambotta, an Italian vegetable stew, and first cousin to ratatouille. I don’t [...]
Sport Hill Farm 2011 CSA – Week 8
Wow, this past week went fast! Here was the bounty from my Sport Hill Farm CSA last week: 4 zucchini 2 of either zucchini or yellow summer squash 1 head of green cabbage 1 cucumber 1 bag of tomatoes 1 head of escarole 2 cauliflower heads 1 bunch of kale 1 bunch of salad turnips [...]
Fried Squash Blossoms
It was a fairly unexciting food week with most of the greens getting sautéed with garlic scapes and olive oil and stored away for the dark days. However, I did make fried squash blossoms and that’s something you don’t see every day. . I made a batter using: one egg (Woodbury Laid) 2 Tbsp of [...]
Eat Local CT Challenge Week 3
For Sport Hill Farm’s Eat Local CT Challenge, I made a broccoli quiche and… Broccoli lettuce soup! The pie crust had a great flavor—my new flour mix is a winning combo. The soup was interesting and tasted mostly like coconut. Sources pie shell Red Fife flour from Curtis Eck (HT Lisa) and Soft White Winter [...]
Cooking lettuce
I’m still swimming in lettuce from last week’s CSA. I can’t seem to make a salad dressing that I like. So, I’m going to fess up here: I’ve been cooking some of the lettuces. (Go ahead and gasp if you must.) Fact is, some lettuces are okay to cook and Red Romaine is one of [...]
Crock-pot rotisserie chicken and salad
I made a crock-pot rotisserie chicken for Patti Popp’s Eat Local CT Challenge along with a salad with a (sort of) Thousand Island dressing. I happened upon a recipe for crock-pot rotisserie chicken at one of Kimberly Hartke’s blog carnivals. Obviously I spend too much time with Engineers because I thought there was a new [...]
