Asparagus languishing in the refrigerator. Shitakes sitting unused. A hungry me, and a desire to combine the two. I took this recipe from epicurious.com and and tweaked it just a little bit. I substituted a whole wheat pizza crust (thank you, KitchenAid!) for the puff pastry and substituted some yogurt with lemon zest and a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘asparagus’
3 Jun
Sauce Gribiche
When I discovered that there was a sauce made of eggs and olive oil and cornichon pickles (some of my favorite things) I knew I had to have it. Luckily, I had some cornichon’s hanging around (but you can get them at DiBruno’s). I ate this sauce on an amazing salad of grilled asparagus on [...]
24 May
Headhouse Square Farmers Market
If you still haven’t been down to the Headhouse Square Farmers Market, now open on Saturday and Sunday, get there! It’s a cute little spot with a nice selection of breads and pastries, plants, fruit and vegetables, fresh-cut flowers, cheese and (if you’re into it) meat. Heirloom plants are grown from a vast array of [...]
21 May
Spring Risotto with Truffled Shitake Mushrooms
I’m trying to eat and cook with more local seasonal ingrediants. It’s not any harder, really, it just takes a little bit of thought and some personal education about just what is in season. I had good friends coming in for Friday night dinner, and decided to make this risotto filled with spring vegetables I [...]
16 Apr
Dinner Party Club – Japanese April
Longing for Spring, and overjoyed by the produce at Iovine’s, and inspired by the recent cherry-blossom festivals on the East Coast, I decided to go Japanese-style with this month’s Dinner Party Club meal. I started the meal off with these cute little “pocket” sushi – tofu puffs soaked and split and filled with saki rice, [...]
1 Feb
Alma de Cuba
Senor Lanky and I anticipate restaurant week every season, but since the price was raised to $35, I find that its often cheaper, especially for a vegetarian who is not that into dessert, to order straight off the menu. Our recent trip to Alma de Cuba was no exception. We chose the place because the [...]
