Pain et L'Artiste

I lack the patience of the artist in the kitchen, but I cannot see why baguettes should look identical. - Scotty Harris

CSA Report June 21, 2012

Lettuce, Lettuce, Lettuce, Scapes, Lettuce, Snow Peas, Lettuece, Letuce, Lettus. Green Leaves. What's the Frequency, Lettuth? Lettuce. Lettuce CUP.  Too much Lettuce on their minds . . .

Princess Leia Organic

The Latest Mental Floss

The Can.

CSA Report June 14, 2012

This week three leaf lettuces, radishes and baby turnips, broccoli, brocolini, mizuna, baby bok choy and baby kale, and arugula. Plus Garlic Scapes and dried chillies from last year's harvest. Stir fried veg tonight!

Anybody need lettuce?

(Ad)-Dressing the Summer

So this is this, and that is that:
And there's how you AD-DRESS A CAT - T.S. Eliot

I usually don't do recipes. They are a pain in the buttocks. At home I tend to cook by the seat of my pants, the outcome of each flavor profile guided by instinct and skill to match my mood at that particular moment. If you believe that I'd like you to consider this bridge I'm selling in Brooklyn.

The fact is that, while I know where I want to go and how to get there, I am too lazy to carefully measure so as to create the instruction manual for others to repeat my result. Every once in a while I do come up with something I really like and take the time.

Jedi Kitchen Tricks

A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it. - Jerry Seinfeld

If you know what you are looking at on the right, you might want to skip this.  Or not.  It's kinda fun.  

 I love kitchen tips - those handy ideas that make cooking easier, (and make you wish you'd thought of it yourself). This may have come from Alton Brown, or Sara Moulton. Cook's Illustrated is also a possibility. It used be really handy for these, but time and repetition have rendered them redundant - even silly. Not as bad as: To open jar, rotate top counterclockwise, perhaps. It just seemed that way whenI gave up my subscription after years.

Here's the scoop - most blender jars  have the same screw thread pattern as a standard Mason jar (not wide mouth). You can use a Mason jar as a small blender carafe or as a replacement for a dedicated spice grinder. Just screw the bottom ring, blade and gasket on as the jar's lid, invert and mount on the base. Shazam.

CSA Report June 7. 2012

The first pick-up of the 2012 includes leaf lettuces, radishes and baby turnips, broccoli rabe and brocolini, mizuna, baby bok choy and baby kale, and arugula. I think the rabe is going on the grill for dinner. Yum.