Recipes
Fried Beets and Carrots
2 T olive oil
1 t. cumin
2 medium beets, scrubbed, quartered & sliced 1/4 inch thick
2 medium carrots, scrubbed & sliced 1/4 inch thick
Tamari (or low sodium soy sauce)
OPTIONAL:
Beet tops, fresh spinach, S
Flash-cooked Greens with Garlic
1¼ lbs fresh spinach, watercress, snow pea shoots, or other greens1 tsp canola or corn oil8-10 cloves garlic, cut into paper-thin slices1½ tbsp rice wine or sake½ to ¾ tsp salt
Tear the stems from spinach; if using o
Eggs and Greens
Some folks, knowing that greens are oh so good for you, still struggle a bit with new ways to get them in their diet or with finding new ways to cook them after getting them in the CSA box every week. This is one of our favorite meals. Great for real
Creamy Spinach Soup
- from The Minimalist Cooks at Home
1 lb. spinach
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 c. chicken stock
1 cup light cream, halfandhalf or milk
a tiny grating of nutmeg
salt and freshly ground black pepper
chopped parsley or mint
Fresh Greens Pasta Pie
6 ounces vermicelli
2 T. butter or margarine
1/3 c. Parmesan cheese
5 eggs
2 t. oil
1 small onion, chopped
2 c. chopped fresh spinach, chard, collards or other greens
1 c. shredded mozzarella cheese
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Boston Brown Bread
Boston Brown Bread
Brown bread descends from thirded breads, rustic farm breads made of coarse grain meals and mineral-rich sweeteners—hearty, rural fare that fortified against cold temperatures and calorie depletion, following in the tradit
Old-Fashioned Cornmeal Mush
Meet your new breakfast favorite, served with hot milk, maple syrup, and dried blueberries.
Butternut Squash Fries
1/2 butternut squash kosher salt cooking spray ketchup, to serve Directions: Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees. Peel and de-seed your butternut squash. Slice squash in half. Cut it up into french fry shapes. Place on a cookie sheet sprayed with non-s
Simple Buttered Antebellum Quick Grits
For this recipe, you will need a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan (ideally, one with gently flared sides called a Windsor pan), a small saucepan, a fine tea strainer, and a wooden spoon.
1 cup Quick Grits
Spring or filte
Poured Polenta
introduction
There is polenta you spoon, and polenta you spear. What accounts for the difference? Evaporation, my dear Watson. This recipe represents the stouter point on the continuum, polenta cooked long enough to settle into a slab once
Piccolo Farrotto
If you know risotto, you know farrotto. Farrotto mimics risotto's cooking paths, and borrows its luxuriously simple ingredients. Farrotto captures risotto's profound comfort quotient. But they are ultimately rather different.
Simple Buttered Carolina Gold Rice Grits
Plumper, rounder, meatier than the term "grits" suggests, rice grits are also more elemental, more satisfying than almost any dish. They are made to be sauced.
Cool & Crunchy Radish and Spring Turnip Salad
Ingredients 12 small radishes, thinly sliced 3 small salad/spring turnips, thinly sliced 1/4 teaspoon toasted sesame oil 1/2 teaspoon rice vinegar juice of half a lime 1 tablespoon chopped chives coarse kosher or sea salt, to taste
Direction
Grilled Beets
Recipe Courtesy Veggin'
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4 medium-sized beets
1 Tablespoons olive oil or canola oil, or more as needed Salt and freshly ground pepper
1. Prepare a medium fire in the gril
Native Blue Corn Johnnycakes
Time: 10 minutes to make the batter, 20 minutes to cook all the cakes.
Johnnycakes must be the fastest griddle cakes on the planet. Traditionally made with Rhode Island Whitecap flint cornmeal, enough liquid to wet their whistle, and not a whole l
Antebellum Coarse Yellow Grits
Time: In a slow cooker with no overnight soak, two hours and 10 to 15 minutes; in a saucepan with an overnight soak, 50 minutes; in a saucepan with no soak, 90 minutes.
Created in the tradition of the stone-ground, hand-milled grits of the Antebe
Flour Tortillas
Time: 1 hour
Think of the flavorless sandwich wraps you’ve ordered and choked down—the ones that crack like old wallpaper and taste like it, too. Think of the silly supermarket spinach and tomato tortillas trying to make up in color w
Polenta Croutons with Pan-Seared Vegetables
Time: 1 hour to cook polenta, additional 45 minutes active prep time
This is a poured polenta recipe, meaning that the polenta is cooked to a stout consistency on the stove, poured onto a greased slab (in this case, an 8-inch baking pan), chilled,
Rice Waffles with Honey Butter
Time: About 10 to 15 minutes to make the batter, plus overnight to rise it; 5 minutes to make the honey butter; 5 minutes or so to cook each waffle.
A waffle is a good-looking specimen, far sexier than the dowdy pancake. It has a crisp, Prussi
Neapolitan-Style Pizza
Time: 5 minutes to mix the dough, overnight to retard it, and about 6 hours intermittent work the following day.
Equipment Mise en Place For this recipe you will need a digital scale, a large mixing bowl, a whisk, a wooden spoon, a plastic dough s
Classic Separate-Grain Rice
Time: 15 minutes to cook and 10 minutes in the oven to dry
Left to its own devices, new-crop rice like ours—rice that is milled and cooked within four months of harvest—will cook to a sticky finish. But it doesn't have to. This recipe
Wilted Spinach with Lemon and Pine Nuts
Ingredients:
1 large bunch of spinach, about 12 cups of leaves 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 1 or 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 2 teaspoons f