As the new semester looms I am finishing up my class materials and doing some advance meal planning for busy weeknights. When you are tired and there is little time to cook, it is easy to fall into the carry-out trap, and I really want to avoid that as much as possible. This is a [...]
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Curried Almond Palmiers
Palmiers are those delicate puff-pastry butterflies that are sweet, flaky, and make it seem like they should be really low calorie. If you start with some frozen puff pastry (and I always do) you can make a wide variety of fast, easy, appetizers or desserts that look like you worked all day in the kitchen. [...]
Curried Cabbage with Gulf Shrimp
It’s the time of year when meal planning revolves around “let’s see what shows up in the C.S.A. box and plan from there.” The beauty of this is that I love to invent meals based on what is on hand, and having a lot of fresh produce means we eat really well in late summer. [...]
Coconut Curry Fish
There’s a tiny restaurant in Estes Park called Nepal’s Cafe, and they make the best Fish Coconut Curry, ever. Mine is frankly not as good, but I am getting closer with each try, and this was was pretty fabulous. I would eat this every day if I had a personal chef to whip it up [...]
Street Food Series: Bunny Chow
Bunny Chow has nothing to do with lettuce. According to Troth Wells, author of The World of Street Food, this dish of lentil curry served in a container of bread had its origins in apartheid policies. Segregation rules meant that restaurants could not serve “colored” people, so curry shops came up with an ingenious take-out [...]
Last C.S.A. Share of the Season
Yesterday I picked up our last shares of 2010–some winter squash, a bag of potatoes, some nice leeks, beets, apples, and some of Grant Farm’s amazing cherry wine. I will admit to a little bit of C.S.A. burnout at this stage in the game, but we are totally sold on the concept and we will [...]
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