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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

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

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

White Bean & Roasted Turkey Soup

2 December 2010 by local kitchen

Heirloom beans, roasted Thanksgiving turkey, aromatics and sage = one delicious soup. Are you as tired of turkey as I am? While I do love the big bird, seven days straight and my body is screaming for a green salad, crisp, crunchy vegetables and anything-but-meat. So what do I do? Make soup, of course. Hear me out – it makes more sense than you think. I didn’t make it to the market last weekend, since we had so much food […]

Categories: 100% local, beans, carrot, fall, heirloom beans, potato, sage, soup, turkey, winter • Tags: cooking, fall, food, heirloom beans, leftovers, local, recipes, soup, turkey, winter, yellow eye beans