February 2012: Warm enough to shed outer layers of clothes
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One beet, two meals; plus fennel and potatoes
We’ve reached the time of the spring season when the weather can’t make up its mind, zigzagging from hot and sultry to cool and rainy. The heat is causing some of the tender greens to bolt, but it is also … Continue reading
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Tagged Beet, Cooking, fennel, gardening, greenhouse, hoop house, Hudson Valley, New York, Potato, salad, Slow Food, winter harvest
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Heat wave salad with raw beets and carrots
Like pretty much everyone else, we’re in the middle of a heat wave here in the Hudson Valley, and cooking is not a welcome activity. On our last workday, Logan mentioned that she liked to make a salad of raw … Continue reading
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Tagged Beet, Carrot, gardening, greenhouse, Hudson Valley, locavore, salad
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Kale salad with beet “croutons”
A nearby restaurant, Millbrook’s Aurelia, offers a kale salad that is so good that riots would ensue if it were removed from the menu. It has shredded kale (possibly blanched), currants, pine nuts, aged balsamic vinaigrette, and some shredded aged … Continue reading
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Tagged beets, Cooking, eating, greenhouse, greens, hoop house, Hudson Valley, kale, locavore, recipe, salad
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Winter Bounty, Spring Bounty
Last week I spent a half-hour at the greenhouse with my only company a newly arrived towhee who sang his exuberant refrain, “drink your teeeeeaaaaaa,” pretty much nonstop. The arrival of spring migratory birds and the greening of the Hudson … Continue reading
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Tagged garden, greenhouse, greens, high house, hoop house, Hudson Valley, Lettuce, salad, winter
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“A meal any way you look at it”: Cooking from the greenhouse
I asked people in our group how they’d been cooking from the greenhouse lately. Lydia said, “I am just a fan of sautéing some onions and garlic and throwing in anything we picked from the greenhouse. I cook it for … Continue reading
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Tagged Beet, Carrot, Cooking, food, garden, gardening, greens, high house, hoop house, Hudson Valley, kale, locavore, Mizuna, Radicchio, recipes, salad, vegetable, vegetables, winter harvest
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Two Super Bowls
Yesterday I escaped the house, a.k.a. The Igloo, for brunch with a friend. Then we headed over to the greenhouse, where I wanted to pick cilantro to put in a dip for a Super Bowl party we were attending. As … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooking, Dips, greenhouse, greens, party, salad, Super Bowl, winter
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