my boyfriend cooks for me

Monday, October 5, 2009

Tonight exemplified one of my favorite things about doing a CSA: sometimes you need to use a common ingredient in a new way. We've received string beans of some kind just about every week for the last month or so. While the green beans have been delicious, we were getting a bit bored with the standard preparation. With the help of our new food processor, my boyfriend tried something random: green bean soup. I was very impressed - the soup had a wonderful depth of flavor, in many ways reminiscent of a chili.

Green bean soup garnished with bacon, sour cream and toasted & buttered Italian round

Rack of lamb

Green pepper & tomato salad

Butternut squash tart

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StephOctober 6, 2009 at 8:24 AM
What a great idea! I would never have thought to try a green bean soup (probably since neither Tony nor I are HUGE fans of them, so I rarely buy them), but it sounds like a great use of them. I made a leek & potato soup (with some asparagus thrown in that was about to go off) this weekend that I garnished in a very similar way (b/c everything is better with bacon!).
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My boyfriend loves to cook and is very creative in the kitchen. Although the internet is often consulted, he doesn't use recipes. He does most (ok, just about all) of the "heavy lifting" documented here. He also happens to be an amazing artist - which may contribute to his excellent food plating and presentation - so check out his art store on Etsy (and see some samples at the bottom of the page).

I perform important tasks (mainly peeling and chopping onions) and provide ideas gleaned from hours of reading food blogs, recipes and menus online, as well as gentle suggestions (i.e. "Isn't the [ingredient] going to go bad soon? Maybe we should use [ingredient] tonight..."). I am also Head Photographer and Blogmaster.

About Our Blog

In an article in the New York Times Michael Pollan said that we spend more time watching "sport" cooking shows than we do actually cooking. And he said this like it is a bad thing. We hope that this blog proves that these shows, while not explicitly instructive, can be a wonderful inspiration.

Of course no one has the time or resources to cook like an Iron Chef all the time. Sometimes we decide to be adventurous and try more elaborate dishes, but generally we want to show that it isn't difficult to put together interesting, creative, and healthy meals any night of the week. We don't make a weekly plan, we don't decide what to make and then go get ingredients. We buy random fun and interesting things that catch our eye at the grocery store, and then figure out how we can use them.

So don't look here for recipes (for the most part the description of what we ate is all there is to it - "mashed turnip with horseradish" is mashed turnip with horseradish!), look here for everyday ideas and inspiration.

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Monday, October 5, 2009

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