Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
A great variety this week. We were headed out to a tailgate so I used the tomatoes, peppers, and onion to make a quick fresh salsa. Just zipped it in the food processor with some garlic. The Broccoli was simply steamed and used to bulk up my breakfast omelets. A good chunk of the hot…
More tomatoes, woohoo! More sweet peppers, not so much. I have to find a way to make use of these soon. I roasted and stuffed some last week for dinner but that only used up a few. I used up a few more on our Italian beef sandwiches. Beef, sweet with heat, wet! The sandwiches…
Gosh, I didn’t really cook this week. I have been eating leftovers from last week and from Sunday’s celebration. Leftovers are easy enough to throw together when the husband is on the road. The most cooking I did was throwing together a mish-mash of vegetables and potatoes from this week and last to make my…
This week’s CSA box was a manageable size, thank goodness since I am still playing catchup from last week. Not to mention the tomatoes and peppers coming out of my garden. The goodies in this week’s box won’t last long… Slicing Tomatoes Black Cherry Tomatoes Specialty Tomatoes Tomatillos Hot Peppers Onions Eggplant Lettuce The black…
So many good vegetables, so little time. I am having a rough time keeping up on the great vegetables each week. I despise them going to waste so I am really making an effort to avoid that from happening. I had a ton of basil still left from last week’s box and I already have…
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…
We are on the road and missed weeks 15 & 16. Our friend and her family enjoyed the CSA goodies while we were gone. We missed the start of the tomatoes, but there are plenty more of those coming. We did dig into the vegetables in oil that I made a few weeks back. They…
We are headed out of town today so once again the goal is to prep the vegetables to enjoy later. Here is what I had to work with… Summer Squash Torpedo Onions Eggplant Garlic Dill Red Cabbage I decided to preserve the onion, garlic, squash and eggplant in oil. Summer Vegetables in Oil adapted from…
More great stuff to work with this week. Vegetarian The How to Cook Everything app I bought has been a big help finding great ways to the use the vegetables each week. Cabbage Head Lettuce Onions Kale Japanese Eggplant Zucchini Summer Squash Flat Leaf Parsley Eggplant was a surprise, I roasted some to make a…