A Twist on Meat and Potatoes (or, Tofu and Potatoes...)

Whenever we pick up our farm share, it is always exciting when the red potatoes are in season. We try to grab as many of the small ones as we can for this recipe:


Olive oil heated in the skillet, with Full Moon Farm dill (dried and chopped) - potatoes are boiled and placed cut side down...














Potatoes are cooked until the cut side is very crispy - so delicious!!



Local beef sauteed in a mixture of marinades (this one here is beef marinade, yellow mustard, hot sauce, and maple syrup, along with red and green peppers) and tofu sauteed with Full Moon Farm swiss chard - a perfect compliment to red potatoes!

Corn-Tomato-Chicken Salad

A quick-ish dish for a week night.

Beautiful tomatoes (thanks Erica!)



Combine with barely-cooked corn, chicken (leg rather than breast, for flavor), and scallions.





There's a dressing, and it didn't emulsify quite right, so I didn't dress the salad proper, but it's actually quite good and important for the dish.

This is the tomato experience I'd hoped to have last year, but was *robbed* from me due to blight. This is a really great salad.

Broccoli Cabbage Tofu Noodle Stirfry, 2010-08-10

As I'm apt to do, this is kinda a hodge-podge of recipes when searching for "broccoli tofu stirfry".



The tofu was pressed overnight, marinated in soy sauce for a half-hour, then baked for like 30-45 minutes.



Broccoli steamed with some soy sauce and water. Napa cabbage sliced thin and stir-fried. Carrots grated and sliced. Some amazing garlic. Scallions at the end. Vermicelli noodles for a base.



In the middle, a wonderful thing happened.



I tried two sauces: our go-to garlic/ginger/sesame/coriander/peanut butter/rice-wine vinegar/siracha/maple syrup sauce and a sesame-oil, rice-wine vinegar/ground ginger sauce.



I did like the latter a lot, but for the left overs, I headed back to the peanut sauce for convenience and tasty-tastiness.

Share, 2010-08-10

Yay for the share this week. Ham! Sausage! Chicken! Spinach! Cuckes! Corn! Potatoes! Tomatillos! Tomatoes. And cherry tomatoes. And Willow Hill Farm Brebis. And some Magic Hat hI.P.A., which isn't part of the share except that Magic Hat's always been great to Full Moon Farm, and our pickup is in the Magic Hat parking lot, which gives me a great and convenient excuse to grab a growler while I'm there.

Nom nom nom.

Share for the week of August 3rd

Watermelon, kohlrabi, beets, carrots, onions, tomatoes, tomatillos, corn, scallions and feta. Aww yeah.

Broccoli and Corn Frittata

Audrey was out of town for part of last week, so I was looking for recipes that were both simple, and that she otherwise wouldn't want. Eyeing some broccoli and corn, I threw together a quick frittata.

Corn:



Scallion:



Our favorite Cabot Sharp Cheddar:



Some eggs and milk for volume:



Light cooking:



Egg-milked, baked, bound and broiled:



I'd have liked to steam or blanch the broccoli to get it a wee bit softer, while leaving the scallions and corn as fresh and crisp as baked for 25 minutes would allow. Regardless, this was a fine quick dish.

carnitas with black-bean and corn salad

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More photos on flickr.