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kumquat-meyer-marm

Kumquat & Meyer Lemon Marmalade with Chile & Kaffir Lime

7 February 2014 by local kitchen

It’s been all marm, all the time around here for the last week or two, what with Meyer lemons, Rio Red grapefruit, and blood oranges, kumquats and Kaffir limes all rolling around my counter tops. And trust me, there are worse things than having 40 lbs of California and Texas citrus perfuming the kitchen in the midst of a snowy, snowy Polar Vortex New York winter. I’ve been enjoying a lot of citrus fresh: grapefruit for breakfast, blood orange as an afternoon […]

Categories: canning, citrus, preserves, preserving • Tags: canning, cooking, food, preserving, winter

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caramelized-fennel-pizza

Caramelized Fennel & Bacon Pizza

4 February 2014 by local kitchen

I had the weirdest dream last night. (Wait; don’t run away! You’ll notice I did not start out with “Dear Penthouse Forum, I never thought this would happen to me…”). After a snowy afternoon of baking beet brownies and watching Kitchen Nightmares, I went to bed and had a dream about Gordon Ramsay. (Did I not just tell you that Penthouse Forum was in no way involved? Get your mind out of the gutter. Take mine with you.) In my dream, […]

Categories: 100% local, cheese, fennel, main course, pizza, whole wheat flour, winter • Tags: cooking, food, local, pizza, recipes, whole grain breads, winter

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chip-dip

Leftover Love: Chips + Dip

29 January 2014 by local kitchen

Well here we are folks: Day 7 of our Week of Leftovers. I’ve managed to post every day for a week, which is a small miracle in itself; and I’ve managed to come up with some inventive ways to fashion a week’s worth of meals out of celeriac soup, slow-roasted beef and a pot of beans. I hope you’ve enjoyed this little peek into my leftover-obsessed fridge. A week out, the last of the beef has gone into chili, the […]

Categories: appetizer, beans, condiments, parsley, snack, vegetarian, year round • Tags: beans, cooking, food, leftovers, local, quick & easy

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chili-jacket-potato

Leftover Love: Beef & Bean Chili Jacket Potato

28 January 2014 by local kitchen

On Sunday I decided that it was time to put the remaining chipotle beef into a stew, something I could freeze if it looked like we weren’t going to eat it all before it threatened to spoil. Since I had already cooked up a pot of Lina Sisco’s, and had sautéed all of the leftover chopped veg from our taco lunch, it was about the easiest chili ever: brown the beef in spices for a minute or two, deglaze with […]

Categories: 100% local, beans, beef, main course, winter • Tags: beans, cooking, food, local, recipes, winter

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huevos-rancheros

Leftover Love: Huevos Rancheros

27 January 2014 by local kitchen

A quick one today, as our Sunday was all about leftover lasagna, sneaking bites of spicy beef from the fridge, and popping popcorn for a Downton Abbey-Sherlock marathon. I did, however, manage to whip up some huevos rancheros for lunch. Leftover corn tortillas, the leftover taco vegetables that were already sautéed and in the fridge, beans that I had cooked on Taco Day, salsa verde, and even the leftover egg white from yesterday’s Swiss chard pasta. It all came together […]

Categories: beans, breakfast, eggs, vegetarian • Tags: cooking, food, local, quick & easy, recipes, vegetarian

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chard-lasagna

Leftover Love: Swiss Chard Lasagna with Celeriac Bechamel

26 January 2014 by local kitchen

“Soup in a lasagna,” I hear you say. “She’s finally gone completely ’round the bend.” Perhaps, Grasshopper. Perhaps. But I submit to you: what is a creamy, velvety celeriac soup anyway if not essentially a savory, vegetable-heavy white sauce? And, while technically not a bechamel, as the sauce is not thickened with a roux but with celeriac soup, “celeriac bechamel” sounded much better than “savory vegetable white sauce.” Branding, my dears: branding. Leftovers need it. Not that this lasagna needs […]

Categories: 100% local, carrot, celery, cheese, fennel, kale & leafy greens, main course, vegetarian, whole wheat flour, winter • Tags: cooking, food, local, recipes, vegetarian, winter

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beef-tacos

Leftover Love: Blue Corn Tortillas + Chipotle Beef Tacos

25 January 2014 by local kitchen

 When you have a big hunk of spicy slow-roasted steak in the fridge, along with a host of crunchy vegetables, thoughts inevitably turn to tacos. This is not a bad thing. Making your own corn tortillas isn’t hard, even without a tortilla press; it’s just a little time-consuming. But the flavor is really incomparable to store-bought varieties (at least the varieties I can find in my neighborhood). And when you have superlative slow-roasted spicy beef and fresh from the farmer’s […]

Categories: beans, beef, corn, main course, winter • Tags: cooking, food, leftovers, local, recipes

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chipotle-beef

Leftover Love: Slow-Roasted Chipotle Beef

24 January 2014 by local kitchen

Next up in our week of Leftover Love, a meat component: a top round of beef, dry-rubbed with chipotle powder and an orange-rosemary salt, and slow-roasted on a bed of aromatic vegetables. When I pulled this top round steak out of the freezer in the morning to thaw, I had every intention of making beef tacos for dinner: I had cabbage, carrots and cilantro in the fridge, pickled chiles and salsa in the pantry, masa harina in the freezer, and […]

Categories: beef, roasting, winter • Tags: beef, cooking, food, leftovers, local, recipes

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celeriac-soup

Leftover Love: Celeriac Soup

23 January 2014 by local kitchen

I will never in a 1,000,000 years understand the hate-on for leftovers. What could possibly be wrong with having delicious meals in the fridge that you don’t have to cook? How does this not make breakfast stress-free? Workday lunches more economical and nutritious? Busy weeknight dinners a breeze? Are we so entranced by the variety of options available to us in the modern age – Mexican on Tuesday, Thai on Wednesday, Italian on Thursday – that we find eating the same […]

Categories: celery, soup, vegetarian, winter • Tags: cooking, food, local, recipes, soup, vegetarian

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fennel-salt

Candied Fennel Stalks + Fennel Frond Salt

17 January 2014 by local kitchen

I’ve been on a bit of a fennel kick lately: not that I would ever consider the dreaded “D” word, but it’s nice to have something crisp and fresh and sweet yet mildly grassy after the excesses of the holidays. Fennel is pretty amazing in that every part of the plant is edible: bulb, stalks, fronds, seeds and pollen; and while they all have that distinctive licorice-y flavor, each part of the plant tastes subtly different, and the overall flavor is […]

Categories: fennel, preserving, quick & easy, spring, winter • Tags: cooking, food, local, preserving, quick & easy, recipes

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couscous-fennel-kumquat-salad

Toasted Couscous Salad with Fennel & Kumquats

9 January 2014 by local kitchen

Can we talk about the tyranny of 5-ingredient recipes? I mean, what line of bullshit have we swallowed that makes us think that limiting a recipe to just five ingredients will make our lives better, simpler, or “down right irresistible?” Don’t get me wrong: we all know that the essence of good cooking is restraint. But to arbitrarily limit ourselves to only five ingredients (not counting salt, pepper, water, a splash of olive oil, a dash of lemon, a…..) out of […]

Categories: cabbage, celery, citrus, fennel, grains & legumes, quick & easy, salad, side dish, vegetarian, winter • Tags: cooking, food, local, quick & easy, salad, vegetarian, winter

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white-bean-soup

White Bean, Leek & Preserved Lemon Soup

3 January 2014 by local kitchen

Winter storm Hercules was a bust, in my opinion. While my friends in Boston got hammered with a foot and a half of the powdery stuff, we’ve got a mere 7 inches here in New York: hardly Herculean amounts. All sorts of bluster and school closings and road closings and State of Emergency declarings for what was, once upon a time, simply…. winter. It is, however, very cold & blustery, with air temps in the single digits and wind chill standing […]

Categories: beans, citrus, grains & legumes, heirloom beans, leek, main course, soup, winter • Tags: beans, cooking, food, local, main course, soup, winter

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2013-favorites

Favorite Posts of 2013

2 January 2014 by local kitchen

Happy 2014! I know some of you are back at work today (and those of you in the Northeast are wondering if the year’s first #snowpocalypse will send you home early) while some of you may feel that vacation is just starting: no more parties, no more traveling, no more commitments, just you, the couch and a pile of movies to keep you company. So, whether you are bored at work, wishing you were home playing in the snow, or […]

Categories: holiday, year round • Tags: 2013, best of, cooking, food, local, recipes

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stuffed-jalapeno

Roasted Jalapeños With Goat Cheese & Smoky Chile Cherries

31 December 2013 by local kitchen

My New Year’s gift to you: an actual “quick & easy” recipe that is spicy, sweet, creamy, smoky & delicious. Suitable for a rollickin’ holiday party or a quiet nibble at home and easily adaptable to cheeses you have in the fridge and preserves in the pantry. Roasting the jalapeños mellows their spicy bite (or you can include a mix of milder small chiles, as I have below), while a short roast and quick broil browns the cheese while maintaining […]

Categories: appetizer, cherries, fall, holiday, hot chile peppers, winter • Tags: cooking, food, local, quick & easy, vegetarian

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forage-and-feast

Foraging & Feasting + Giveaway Winner

12 December 2013 by local kitchen

Do you remember when I told you about a new foraging book, written by herbalist Dina Falconi and illustrated by artist Wendy Hollender, right here in Accord, NY? Well, I reached out to Dina and Wendy, who are also the publishers, Botanical Arts Press, and they were kind enough to send me a review copy and a copy to giveaway to one lucky reader. I was so excited to receive my copy and I was not disappointed: it is a […]

Categories: 100% local, foraging, wild foods • Tags: cooking, food, foraging, giveaway, local, preserving, wild food

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