I dream of fingerlings

From ruth_117 — Blog by Ruth Newman

September 30, 2009

A couple of weeks ago I discovered the potato lady at the farmers market. A lot of the veggie vendors there have one or two types of potatos but this lady sold potatos almost exclusively with squashes making up the rest of her stall. She had so many kinds it was difficult to pick. There were Blue Russians (which I had been searching for for a couple of years already!), yukon gold, banana fingerlings, pink fleshed and then there were the french fingerlings. So I picked some of each kind and brought them home to try. I scrubbed a bunch of the smaller ones and threw them in the steamer. It was an assorted batch so I could get a taste for each. I doctored them up with butter and salt and started trying them.

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Foraging

From ruth_117 — Blog by Ruth Newman

June 8, 2009

On Friday I was out for a tour of a local Ecological Reserve and found a gorgeous field of stinging nettles just ready for picking (outside of the reserve, no picking allowed inside!). They were about four to six inches high and so tender I could pick them without gloves. I got a few mild stings but nothing compared to what they will feel like in a month or two. I picked a good bunch and carefully packed them for the ride home. I also picked up a few fiddleheads I found along the way.

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Split pea puree

From ruth_117 — Blog by Ruth Newman

April 6, 2009

Ok, so, my experiment adding split pea puree to my lasagna sauce is going excelently!!!

I made my regular tomato sauce and also added some grated zuchinni (from the freezer) for some body. I ran the immersion blender through that to smooth it out some. The split peas were simmered with some celery hearts, garlic and fresh thyme. I ran the immersion blender through them and when I tasted it I almost didn’t add it to the sauce it tasted so good!! But that would have given me split pea soup and not a protein boost to my tomato sauce like I want.

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When is it ok to buy new pans?

From ruth_117 — Blog by Ruth Newman

March 14, 2009

I really try, really I do! I try not to buy new kitchen gadgets that will only clutter up my already stuffed apartment kitchen. But then the perfect idea comes along, like using some of my stawberries (frozen from last years picking) and making an angel food cake for my co-workers. It would be a way to look forward to summer as we are suffering under the latest Canadian cold spell (it was -40 with windchill again this week!!)

My only problem with this is that I do not own an angel food cake pan. A one-use-only item if there ever was one. Not only that but with the wierd shape, not a pan I can easliy hide among my other pans. I could have used my bundt pan but I had done that before and it was a pain to get the cake out. No if I was to get an angel food cake pan it would have to be one with a removable bottom.

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