Ramen – Mother Dish Technique
Ramen is a very versatile dish which can be used with seasonal ingredients any time of the year. Here is a template that you can use to highlight whatever is coming from the garden or the farmers’ market.
CSA – 2021, Week 2
CSA 2021, Week 2: This week Elysian Fields Farm sent us sweet potatoes, carrots, green garlic, lettuce and kale!
Frittata Mother Dish Technique
Frittatas are delicious egg casseroles that are equally appropriate for the breakfast table and the dinner table. The fact that they are quite flexible from the ingredients perspective makes me classify them as a mother dish. Learn to make a basic frittata, and you can make fresh, seasonal ingredients the star of the dish any time of year.
Collard Run-up and Green Garlic Frittata
Inspired by two wonderful examples of spring produce, the Collard Run-up and Green Garlic Frittata.
About Run-Ups
Run-ups are the name that Eastern Carolinians use for the flowering stalks of brassicas not so well known for their flowering stalks, and run-ups are delicious!
Risotto Mother Dish Technique
Risotto is a mother dish. To master a mother dish means that you can take what you know and use it to make a huge variety of dishes. I make risotto a couple times a month, always leveraging ingredients that are in season, regardless of the season. This is the only risotto recipe you will ever need!
About Risotto
Let’s talk about risotto; both traditional risotto and how I’ve come to make risotto using brown rice and the oven.
Introduction to Aromatics
Aromatics are vegetables that provide deep layers of flavor and aroma when chopped or crushed and then heated. They are the basis to an overwhelming variety of savory dishes.
CSA – 2021, Week 1
A brand new CSA season just started. I plan on posting about the contents each week. So here we go, Week 1 of 30: Spinach, Collard Greens, Carrots, Hakurei Turnips and Green Garlic. Continue on for the details…
Fried Rice with Hakurei Turnips and Green Garlic
Ingredients: A bunch of Hakurei turnips with their greens One Green Garlic About 4 cups of leftover rice One or two Carrots Some Chinese Sausage A couple Eggs An all finger pinch of Cashews A nob of Ginger A few Scallions Soy Sauce Oyster Sauce or Hoisin Sauce High Smoke Point Cooking Oil Toasted Sesame […]
Introduction to mise en place
Mise en place is all about getting ready to cook. For the home cook, embracing mise en place can mean the difference between enjoyable, rewarding kitchen success and messy, stressful kitchen failure.
A Lot About Alliums
Botanically, the allium family is the king of aromatics: Onions (red, yellow, white, sweet), garlic, leeks, shallots, scallions… These are all alliums.