This week at the farmers market: 1/24/2009

This week my friend Amy emailed me to see if I wanted to go to the farmers market together today. I wasn’t feeling too optimistic about what we would find there, but I hadn’t seen Amy in ages, so I figured why not? We tried a bunch different sheep’s milk cheeses. I got a piece [...]

Split Pea and Barley Soup

On New Year’s Day I made a big pot of pea soup. It was delicious. The barley adds a nice chewiness, and the bacon is just added at the end, so the bacon naysayers can have theirs plain, leaving more pork of the rest of us.

This week at the farmers market: 6/28/2008

Hi! Sorry! I’m back now! I’ve been a little distracted by my new job. I haven’t cooked much of anything lately. I ate frozen Trader Joe’s taquitos all week and I’m ashamed to say that much of produce I bought at the farmers market two weeks ago was found rotting in the bottom of my [...]

Chicken Stock

I’ve been saving up chicken bones and vegetable scraps in my freezer, and this past weekend I made a big pot of chicken stock. It takes all of 15 minutes to get it going, and then you can just leave it to cook itself for a few hours. You’ll end up with a freezer [...]

Red Lentil Soup

I’ve never been a big fan of lentil soup. I kind of can’t deal with those big brown lentils. It’s the texture. But then a couple months ago I saw this recipe in the New York Times. It reminded me of the delicious lentil soup at the Middle Eastern restaurant around the corner from my [...]