entrees Archives - A Way To Garden https://awaytogarden.com/category/recipes-cooking/entrees/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Sun, 17 Jul 2022 09:47:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 9651199 zucchini recipes and vegetable-bounty strategies, with ali stafford https://awaytogarden.com/zucchini-recipes-and-vegetable-bounty-strategies-with-ali-stafford/ https://awaytogarden.com/zucchini-recipes-and-vegetable-bounty-strategies-with-ali-stafford/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2022 21:03:35 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=51874 YOU KNOW HOW the vegetable garden goes. One day, there are just two green beans ready to pick, and then there are 62 all at once. Famine, and then feast. Some of that can be moderated by growing different varieties with different days to maturity or with smaller succession sowings of each crop. But no matter how much planning, it’s not a predictable assembly line—and neither is what you’ll get each week if you subscribe to a farm share or CSA. Like: hello, radishes every week, plus more kale than I can keep up with. So what to do with whatever produce comes your way? Cookbook author and food writer Alexandra Stafford offered some tactical advice and also prepared us for the onslaught of zucchini with creative and delicious recipes. Ali creates the Alexandra’s Kitchen website and companion e-newsletter at alexandracooks.com—and a whole extra, free, weekly seasonal email, too, called the Farm Share Newsletter, which is giving me more ideas each week for what to do with what the garden, the CSA, and the local farmstand have to offer. She’s the author of the hit book “Bread Toast Crumbs.” Plus: Enter to win a copy of the book by commenting […]

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]]> https://awaytogarden.com/zucchini-recipes-and-vegetable-bounty-strategies-with-ali-stafford/feed/ 187 51874 springtime recipes & d.i.y. salad dressings, with justin chapple https://awaytogarden.com/springtime-recipes-d-i-y-salad-dressings-with-justin-chapple/ https://awaytogarden.com/springtime-recipes-d-i-y-salad-dressings-with-justin-chapple/#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2022 13:16:26 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=51548 FINALLY, the first fresh flavors of spring are starting to show up at the farmers’ markets, and before long in our gardens, with more to come every unfolding week. Chef and cookbook author Justin Chapple, who’s also the “Food & Wine” culinary director at large, offers ideas to use the coming bounty, starting with an idea for asparagus, plus easy but transformational homemade salad dressings and more. Which vinegar with which oil please, and why? Justin is known for his energetic and very approachable style, creating what he calls “built-to-be-easy recipes.” As part of his role at “Food & Wine,” he hosts their video series called “Mad Genius Tips,” the title of his first book, and he authored another called “Just Cook It” (affiliate link). Justin is going to be teaching a workshop near me in the Hudson Valley on May 8th, 2022, at HGS Home Chef Cooking School in Hillsdale, NY, as part of the big Workshop Experience Weekend that I’m involved with, with lots of festivities. How to get tickets for his event, and the whole May 7-8 festival schedule. Plus: Enter to win a copy of “Just Cook It” by commenting in the box near the bottom […]

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]]> https://awaytogarden.com/springtime-recipes-d-i-y-salad-dressings-with-justin-chapple/feed/ 206 51548 recent cookbooks to savor (and win!), with ali stafford https://awaytogarden.com/recent-cookbooks-to-savor-and-win-with-ali-stafford/ https://awaytogarden.com/recent-cookbooks-to-savor-and-win-with-ali-stafford/#comments Sat, 08 Jan 2022 22:36:34 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=51039 DID YOU MAYBE get, or give, a cookbook or two for a holiday gift? Well, hopefully you can make room on the shelf for another couple of good ones. Our expert guide who’s been browsing and cooking from the latest crop is Alexandra Stafford, aka Ali, who has some goodies to share—perfect fodder for another January of sticking close to home as I know a lot of us are again with cooking as one of our mainstays of comfort and creativity. Ali Stafford, author of the essential cookbook “Bread Toast Crumbs” and creator of the website alexandracooks.com, is here to highlight some of the recent cookbook titles that she’s finding irresistible. They range from topics like cooking more vegetable-centric meals, to creative use of grains, and yes, even more ideas for delicious cookies. Plus: Giveaways! I’m giving away two of the cookbooks we discussed, and Ali is giving away a membership in the semester of my Virtual Garden Club that begins January 13, 2022. Enter to win by commenting in the box at the bottom of the page…and then click over to her lace and do the same to double your chances. Read along as you listen to the January […]

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