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Posts Tagged ‘herbs’

Chioggia Beet and Chervil Salad Recipe

Chervil is a winter-hardy herb that likes to self-seed. It grows on its own in my front yard every spring. The flavor is a cross between parsley and fennel—an anise-like sweetness and potent green taste that create an astonishing alchemy with sweet and earthy beets. I like Chioggia beets in this dish [...]

Pink Turnip Soup and Hearty Spring Salad

Recipes 3/9/09
Staring out at the falling, melting snow, I’m eating leftover quiche and thinking about the good food I made for dinner last night.
Menu for an Early Spring Dinner:
Pink Turnip and Potato Soup
Hearty Spring Greens with Radish, Carrot, and Lemon-Shallot vinaigrette
Broccoli and Goat Cheese Quiche
Cara Cara oranges and candied Cocktail Citrus rind

I can’t take [...]

Magnificent Mushrooms and a Book Recommendation

Well, it only used a couple of ingredients from Sunroot Gardens, but it was amazing, so here goes…
Do you ever pick up a loaf or two of dumpstered bread and then wonder what to do with it?  Stale bread is good, but the problem with it is that it gets a little staler every day, [...]