Cooking

Pumpkins- from Patch to Porch

10.08.2011 Baking

The word October is practically synonymous with pumpkins- either word will evoke the images and smells we have come to associate with Autumn. The word pumpkin actually comes from the Greek pepon (πέπων), which means “large melon”and should come as no surprise to any gardener who has grown them.  Pumpkins are in the Cucurbitaceae family, which also includes [...]

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Makie Doll Guest Spot: September Stuffed Cabbage

09.20.2011 Cooking
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We are so excited about today’s post! We did a guest post for our friend’s blog Makie Doll. The post is a delicious stuffed cabbage recipe that uses the freshest seasonal veg we could find at this weekends market. So follow us over to Makie Doll today and check back tomorrow for our feature on [...]

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Open Faced Avocado Sandwich With Sprouts, Pesto, and Hummus

09.14.2011 Cooking
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We are men of extremes. Most nights we have an artfully composed salad from the best and freshest organic ingredients we can put together. Some nights we even eat salads out of giant serving bowls because we have so much kale in the bowls we need room for other stuff. On nights when we get [...]

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Beans Are Good. . .For You

09.01.2011 Cooking
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There are some ways in which we were destined to become vegans. We both really enjoy vegetables and even when we were eating meat it was the arugula or broccoli rabe or baby bok choi that really got us salivating . There were also some ways in which we were Ill-equipped to become vegan. One [...]

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Last Supper

08.27.2011 Cooking
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The world is ending and we are doing the same thing we would usually do on a Saturday night, curling up with the dogs and making a nice vegan dinner. We pulled the kohlrabi out of the garden yesterday simply to salvage the greens. We did not get anymore beautiful bulbs of kohlrabi like we [...]

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Mr. Babies’ First Canning- Part 3

08.24.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving
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If you’ve been following our canning adventures you know that it hasn’t all just fallen into place. WT did his last away gig for the summer season last week and when he returned there was a counter full of tomatoes and boxes of canning tools. Now we just needed to make sauce and can it. [...]

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Mr. Babies’ First Canning- Part 2

08.16.2011 Canning, Drying, and Preserving
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OK. We ran into one major problem. If you read part one you know that we had our heart set on procuring a pressure canner and setting forth on our canning adventures. It turned out that no kitchen stores in NYC selling pressure canners are open weekends. There were endless displays of water bath canners and [...]

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Fennel, Carrot, and Sun Dried Tomato Pasta in Coconut Cream

08.11.2011 Cooking
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After putting so much love into the sun dried tomatoes, we have a bag of red deliciousness staring us in the face every time we open the fridge. Last night I wanted something sweet and tangy with a little spice. This is what I came up with. Ingredients: Minced garlic (to taste- we can’t ever [...]

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Radishes, who knew?

07.19.2011 Cooking
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These are radish seed pods. It’s what happens when you don’t harvest the root and let the plant go to seed. They taste just like a radish with the added pop of a sugar snap pea. You can sautée them, as well, but they lose most of their flavor in the process, so why bother?

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Chilled Glass Dinner

07.02.2011 Cooking
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When you have a garden you frequently find yourself with an over abundance of a particular vegetable or fruit. I suppose this may qualify as the gardening equivalent of a luxury problem, but I’m hoping you won’t hold that against me and keep reading. The fruit in this case is the cucumber. I had already [...]

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