It seems like a funny time of year to be harvesting mushrooms, but I suppose as long as conditions are right, those little fungi are going to bloom! I’ve never been really confident on picking mushrooms, but there are a few that I know well, that are safe to eat. Oyster Mushrooms, Puff Balls, and…
Category: Vegetarian Mains
Potato Crusted Quiche
I’ve been methodically going through my cooking files. Everything is kept in legal sized hanging files, where I can jot things down on the folders themselves, such as cookbooks that offer a recipe that I use often, idea notes can be tossed in indiscriminately to a parent file. I moved away from a recipe card…
Three Cheese Macaroni
As a kid I found macaroni & cheese to be too bland. I could get through a serving if I had enough pickles. Apparently, though, I was a rarity. Macaroni & Cheese was part of pretty much any Children’s section on a menu, and presented frequently at Potlucks for “the kids”. I watched in horror…
Butternut Cottage Pie
The feeling of sitting down to a meal of “comfort food” is exactly that, comfort. The senses drag up old, comfy memories, of different times and places, but all of them bring us comfort. In our childhood home, if we ever had a roast beef or pot roast for dinner, the next day one of…
Butternut Squash Gratin with Baby Kale & Pecans
Back in the beginnings of our life on the farm, we used to grow squash in places where we’d had a burn pit. We’d turn over all the ash, add some compost, and plant a few seeds. Sometimes they were seeds that a friend had from the last year’s crop. The biggest were Hubbards, and…
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