September 2009
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Peckled Pippers.
(for Dan)
A là Jean Andrews, from Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums:
1. Wash the fruit. 2. Prick with a fork or toothpick. 3. Soak the pods in salt water for 24 hours. Use 1 part pickling or dairy salt* (do not use table salt) to 15 parts water. 4. Remove the pods, rinse them in fresh water, and place them in a mesh bag†. 5. Put the bag of peppers into boiling water and boil for 3 minutes. 6....
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Mash Notes
So I broke out the green mash recipe at the new gig today. I’m working on recipe for [redacted], which calls for an accompanying sauce, and I figured I’d give it a try in the test kitchen. It went over pretty much as I’d expected: most tasters liked it a lot, but reckoned that it might be a little too exotic for publication, and would likely end up on the cutting room floor....
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Porcini Bread & Bread Pudding
Welcome to all you Chronogrammarians. Stay tuned, I should have these recipes up real soon. In the meantime, you might want to look over my basic bread recipe, off which they’ll be riffed.
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CSA Solutions #247: Squasha Ganoush
It’s that time of year again, when we are up to our ears with vegetables from our CSA (Lindentree Farm in Lincoln, MA). Sadly, thanks to Phytopthera infestans (nice going, Wal-Mart), tomatoes are not a component of this August bumper crop. Instead, we are faced with a glut of yellow and green summer squash. While pretty to look at in the harvest basket, they are no fun to make use of, just...