Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
When one of my favorite sources for recipes offered a chance to review a copy of their new cookbook that shares the name of the blog, Meatless Meals for Meat Eaters by Miriam Barton, I jumped at the chance. The Lentil tacos from the site are a fixture in our taco Tuesday line up and…
Steak again! Totally stole this cauliflower steak idea from Lynn at the Actor’s Diet. I thought it was a genius way to serve cauliflower. I added in my own genius using it as a tool to eat massive amounts of Romesco Sauce. Seriously I can not get enough of Romesco sauce. Or of roasted cauliflower. The…
Still facing a fridge of leftovers. Unrelated, my camera is on the fritz. Likely I changed some setting that resulted in crappy pictures. Maybe I need a new camera. Likely I just want a new camera. Back to leftovers. The bottom portion of our fridge is jam backed with CSA vegetables that I need to…
Friday’s kitchen time produced a delicious evening. The spicy goat cheese was just the start. A lasagna tart the finish. Another simple dish that is full of flavor. The recipe comes together quickly and definitely has weeknight potential. Don’t let a homemade crust scare you off. Lemon zest in the crust adds an expected brightness…
The warm summer days have become those rainy cold fall days, though we did get a nice final summer weekend to put it to rest. The main season of our CSA deliveries have ended and the fall deliveries have begun. Here are some of my favorites from the summer… Summer Squash “Lasagna”. This is an…
Just as all the sweet peppers from the CSA were taking over my vegetable drawer I got this recipe for Massa de Pimentão (Sweet Red Pepper Paste) in my email. Isn’t the result wonderful looking… I mixed a few spoonfuls of the paste with grated cheese. Fancy pimento cheese. Spread it on bread and transformed…
I pulled out the majority of our garden. Always a sad day. Overall the garden was not a huge success this year. We did get some huge and delicious tomatoes, but we did not get a ton of them. The cherry tomatoes were so small it made them a total hassle to pick and I…
The fresh tomatoes in the CSA box of course make me so happy but so does getting lettuce again. Juliet Tomatoes Slicing Tomatoes Specialty Tomatoes Eggplant Hot Peppers Lettuce Basil Nothing going to waste this week. The tomatoes and peppers were of course used in the peach and pepper recipes, any leftover tomatoes along with…
Purple, red, green — this week’s CSA box was gorgeous… And the scent of the basil was to die for, and we got tons of it. There were a lots of goodies this week, here is what it included… Juliet Tomatoes Sun Gold Tomatoes Slicing Tomatoes Eggplant Broccoli Green Pepper Lettuce Basil I am so…
I made enough lentils this week to feed a small village, not sure what the heck I was thinking. After eating them all week I still had a good amount left. Lentil burgers it is! Red onions were stored from our pre-vacation CSA box that I wanted to get used up. I was hoping to…