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Stuffed Baked Potatoes with Maitake Mushrooms, Caramelized Shallots, and Sour Cream

September 24, 2017 by Sheila

Stuffed Baked Potatoes

So good. Far from healthy, this serves as a well-deserved treat. Celebrate the beginning of Fall, when it shows up, with these potatoes slathered in butter, sour cream, caramelized shallots, and mushrooms. This is listed as a vegetable side dish but most definitely can serve, with it’s calorie packed depth of flavor, as a main […]

Filed Under: Vegetable Side Dishes Tagged With: hen of the woods, maitake, mushroom, mushrooms, potatoes, russet, shallots, sour cream

Spring Into Summer Stew

July 17, 2017 by Sheila

Spring Into Summer Stew

The garden’s abundance finally rewards us for all of our hard work since March. A long time coming, but all is forgotten as we enjoy the bounty of the harvest. Here’s an easy way to eat your vegetables. I don’t use stock or broth, preferring the easy way of always making sure I’ve got some […]

Filed Under: Soups and Stews Tagged With: carrots, fava beans, kale, onions, peas, potato, potatoes, scallions, stew, summer squash, tomatoes, turnips, yellow zucchini, zucchini

Spring Garlic, Pea, and Potato Spanish Tortilla

April 12, 2017 by Sheila

Spring Garlic, Pea, and Potato Spanish Tortilla

Ramps, ramps, ramps. It’s April and all we’ll hear about are ramps for the next 3 weeks. I do have some Spring garlic behind the greenhouse that are the perfect size and look just like ramps. Paired with peas and potatoes and the freshest eggs, there is no doubt it’s Spring. Just much later than […]

Filed Under: Eggs, Vegetable Main Dishes Tagged With: cherry blossoms, cookbook, easy recipe, eggs, food photography, Fritatta, peas, potato, potatoes, recipe, Spanish tortilla, Spring garlic, Yukon Gold

Chitting Potatoes

March 25, 2015 by Sheila

Chitting Potatoes

They’re not pretty, but the results are sublime. And, if you’ve never tasted freshly dug organic potatoes, you are in for a treat this summer! Why chit? Pre-sprouting your seed potatoes will make for an earlier harvest, give the plants a jump on blight, and prevent pale, elongated, brittle shoots from growing in the bag […]

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: chitting, gardening, potatoes

Roasting Vegetables

December 28, 2014 by Sheila

Roasted Vegetables

Clockwise from top left: Shallots, red bell pepper, fennel, sweet potato, butterball potato, Brussels sprouts, butternut squash, carrots, blue sweet potato, rutabaga. Roasted vegetables are the umami of the plant world. Their depth of flavor is without compare. The browning (maillard effect) is how you develop the umami, caramelizing the natural sugars in the vegetables. […]

Filed Under: Cooking Basics Tagged With: asparagus, beets, Blue Hubbard squash, Brussels sprouts, bulb fennel, butternut squash, carrots, cauliflower, celeriac, celery root, fennel, garlic, onion, onions, potato, potatoes, red bell peppers, roasted vegetables, root vegetables, shallots, sweet potato, sweet potatoes, turnips, winter squash

Composed Salad

November 19, 2014 by Sheila

Composed Vegetable Salad

This photo is over the top! First I think Mardi Gras, then I’m looking for the vegetable man a la Giuseppe Arcimbold. Still, I wanted to share this because parts of this salad were purchased at Green Thumb Farmstand in Southampton, NY. Yes, I actually got out of Upper Black Eddy and had a whirlwind […]

Filed Under: Eggs, Salads, Vegetable Main Dishes Tagged With: baby spinach, carrots, composed salad, edible flowers, eggs, farm market, greens, hard-boiled eggs, onion, potato, potatoes, radicchio, red onion, snap beans, Southampton, spinach, string beans, sweet bell pepper, The Hamptons, tomato, tomatoes, vegetable salad, walnuts, Watermill Center

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