Archive for September, 2007
eating local
the last day of summer
The weather may be 85 degrees and muggy outside, but inside Kitchen Conservatory, it is ginger-spiced! Today we baked the gingerbread pieces for all the houses for our Gingerbread House classes in December. Since we make 200 houses, and each house has six pieces (four walls and two roofs), we baked 1200 pieces of gingerbread. […]
Do you need to add another item in your kitchen? Yes, if it enables the creation of delicious food. I once dined in a Parisian restaurant on a beautiful plate of “vegetable spaghetti”: carrots, zucchini, yellow squash, and potato that were deliciously dressed and charmingly presented. I was hooked; by what mystery did the chef […]
Our bees are really, really angry and who could blame them. Today, we took away from them their whole summer’s work, so we could enjoy the fruits of their labor — honey.
The late, hard frost in April damaged our bees because they could not feast on their favorite food: cherries, apples, and other beautiful flowers. The bees scavenged for […]
Today we dug up our potatoes. Cut a freshly-dug potato and they crackle and snap like a crisp apple. The taste of a fresh potato will spoil your taste buds against the commercial potatoes held in storage for months. Fresh potatoes, boiled until tender, are so creamy they hardly need butter, but, of course, I added […]
Fresh basil (locally grown) is now available at Kitchen Conservatory. Come by and pick up a bouquet for $2, since there is no such thing as too much basil. Even if you don’t use it in cooking, the sweet aroma of basil makes a lovely centerpiece. Or use the basil in this salad to remember summer.
Tuscan Grilled […]