The Pelican Pantry
This Week's CSA Box (and How I'll Use It)
I'm not sure what happened this past week, but I seem to have a lot of vegetables leftover. (I know what happened: we ate out on Saturday night.) I'll use a fair number of them in tonight's dinner — a Japanese curry. But today is CSA day, so I'm feeling...
This Week's CSA Box (and How I'll Use It)
This past weekend, Kin and I bought an RV trailer. I immediately googled "RV trailer cookbooks" and was sort of appalled at the options. I mean, okay, there's a balance to be struck between opening up a can of whatever and heating it up on the little stovetop and constructing...
This Week's CSA Box (and How I'll Use It)
I'm on my own today — Kin is out of town until Friday and Kaia is up in Eugene visiting her mom and won't be back for 10 days. So the CSA is going to overwhelm me, I reckon. Here's what I'm expecting: 1 lbs Carrots 3 pcs Yolo Yolo...
This Week's CSA Box (and How I'll Use It)
According to the email from Riverdog Farms, here's what's in this week's CSA box: 1.5 lbs Carrots 1 lb Red Beet 1 lb Mixed Squash 1 hd Green Cabbage 1 hd Fresh Torpedo 1.5 lbs Sifra Potatoes 4 ears Sweet Corn 1 bu Red Bor Kale I'm cooking for three...
This Week's CSA Box (and How I'll Use It)
It's CSA day! I'm not sure what Frog Hollow Farms will have in the box this week, but I hope it's more of the plums. They were so delicious that I made plum simple syrup and a plum almond cake — twice. According to the email from River Dog Farms,...
This Week's CSA Box (and How I'll Use It)
It's Wednesday, and this afternoon, I'll go pick up our CSA boxes: one box of vegetables from River Dog Farms, one dozen eggs — also from River Dog Farms, and a box of fruit from Frog Hollow Farms. Based on their emails, here's what I'm expecting: Carrots Oregano Red Beets...
This Week's CSA Box (and How I'll Use It)
I'm still getting into the rhythm of posting these updates. We went out of town for a week, and as such, skipped two weeks of CSA pick-up. I have several stories I want to write about what we ate while on the road - breakfast burritos, anyone? - but for...
This Week's Menu
It's a short week of cooking as we're heading out of town on Friday. But before we go, this is what's on the menu: Sunday: Cheddar IPA Bratwurst Hoagie Buns Tater Tots Salad Braising Mix Monday: Char Siu Bao Tokyo Turnips Salad Tuesday: Sesame Chicken Meatballs Salad Wednesday: Kimchi Fried...
This Week's CSA (and Menu Planning)
It's CSA day! We subscribe to two CSAs: one vegetables, one fruits. We also get a dozen eggs each week from the former. It's slightly more than we can eat each week, and a lot of fruit goes into the freezer on Wednesday mornings, I admit. (But that gets used...
The Quarterly Rancho Gordo Bean Shipment
I finally gained access to the coveted Rancho Gordo bean subscription a couple of months ago. My second shipment arrived yesterday: snowcap, buckeye, marcella, garbanzo, vaquero, and lima beans, along with some Mexican oregano. I haven't ever cooked with the snowcap or buckeye beans before, so that's exciting. The marcella...