Tag: cooking from garden

• Asparagus forever

  Would you just eat asparagus for every meal? asked Stoic the Vast when we had so much growing in the yard that I could easily have had it three times a day. Yes, said I. Who wouldn’t? Well, evidently, himself for one. We’ve got a wee bit in our new yard but, mostly, I’ll be…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 2, 2022

  Asparagus, simple goodness

  cooking from garden, healthy eating, Vegetables

• Why I can (and freeze and pickle)

  I enjoy preserving Stoic’s garden bounty (along with that of the Lynn St. Clair Orchard in Taylorsville) because it makes me feel like a good steward and because — of everything going on in my life — it’s the only process with a beginning, middle and end. I can actually see what I’ve accomplished, usually…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 8, 2019

  Cooking from the garden, Fruit

  cooking from garden, lemons, Oranges, Peaches, Sugar

• “Sensory strobe light” from a simple soup

  When I read a food article like Helen Rosner’s “The Female Chef Making Japan’s Most Elaborate Cuisine Her Own,” (from which I swiped “sensory strobe light”), I think I’m not trying hard enough. Very few exotic ingredients, so little “plating,” so much grabbing and going. But then I realize we’re lucky enough to eat really…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 21, 2019

  Flavors of the Earth, healthy cooking, Healthy eating for the whole family, Making new habits, Nutrition, Senior fitness, Simple foods, Soup, vegetables

  Barley, Beans, cooking from garden, Easy entrees, healthy eating, Kale, The New Yorker magazine, V-8 juice

• Best summer soup ever!

  “If I got this in an expensive restaurant, I’d be really happy with it,” said Stoic the Vast on first tasting this elegant and easy zucchini soup, adapted from a skinnytaste.com recipe. That’s our highest praise. If we’d paid real money for it (instead of “just” raising or buying the groceries), we’d still like it…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 4, 2018

  Cooking from the garden, Seasonal food, Simple foods, Soup

  cooking from garden, healthy eating, skinnytaste.com, Vegetables, zucchini

• Gregory Pardlo’s Air Traffic and zucchini tots (no, really, both of these things)

  Honestly, I was going to opine about zucchini and how thanks to Maggie M. at my YMCA, I’ve learned about zucchini tots which are just like tater tots, except, you know. Then this morning I finished  Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo’s “Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America” (Borzoi, 2018). A frequent…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 22, 2018

  Addiction, Depression and anxiety-related food issues, Food addiction, Food habits, Seasonal food, Sheet pan cooking, Willpower

  Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, cheese, cooking from garden, Gregory Pardlo, zucchini

• Shakshuka! What? It’s OK — you know the ingredients even if you don’t recognize the name

  The name for this Israeli dish sounds like a ’50s doo-wop group but learn it anyway. The name has its origins in the Arabic word for mixture and came to Israel with Jewish immigrants from North Africa. It’s a tasty, healthy meal with a kick. Also easy, did I mention that? The most challenging part…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  September 26, 2017

  Breakfast-brunch, Cancer prevention, Cooking from the garden, healthy cooking, Israeli food, Middle Eastern foods, Seasonal food

  cooking from garden, eggs, Garlic, healthy eating, Kale, onions, Tomatoes

• Fresh, fabulous figs

  We waited longer for figs than for a baby. The latter took just under 3 years; the former, more than 25. And this year, booyah!, we have figs. Figs to eat out of hand, figs to freeze for making preserves and figs to cook. Assuming figs grew in Eden (fig leaves, remember?), why would anyone leave,…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 23, 2017

  Cooking from the garden, Fresh herbs, Fruit, Pork chops, Rural life, Seasonal food, Southern food

  cooking from garden, Figs, gardening, healthy eating, onions, Thyme

• I’m as corny as Kansas in August, slow-cooker corn chowder without cheese

  We are covered up in summer squashes and sinking fast. Corn and tomatoes are advancing from the east (the garden). I spend more time in the kitchen these days than at any other time of the year because you can only give away so many zucchini and hot peppers. Stoic and I made two kinds…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  August 3, 2017

  Seasonal food, Slow cooker recipes, Soup, vegetables

  Chowder, cooking from garden, Corn, Garlic, healthy eating, Thyme

• Holy cow! Easy zucchini-tomato Parmesan

  Flipping between channels last night, I paused long enough on a PBS special about cancer research to hear an expert say something to the effect that obesity has finally passed smoking to be the #1 preventable cause of cancer!!! I think this was rattling around somewhere in my subconscious, but I’ve never heard overweight put…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 20, 2017

  Cancer prevention, Cooking from the garden, Food habits, Fresh herbs, healthy cooking, obesity, Seasonal food, Taking care of ourselves, vegetables

  basil, cheese, cooking from garden, nutrition, Tomatoes, zucchini

• And I don’t like chard . . .

    A young friend who’s working harder than any human bean should have to, says clients buying her family farm’s CSA subscriptions often ask what to do with chard. You can cook it like fresh spinach or you can take a couple of extra steps to fix this Lebanese Swiss chard from therecipehunters.com. It may…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  June 12, 2017

  Beans, Cooking from the garden, good food, healthy cooking, Local food, Seasonal food, therecipehunters.com, vegetables

  Canary beans, chard, cooking from garden, Garlic, Josephine’s Swiss chard and black eyed peas recipe, onions, parsley, Spinach