Chile rellenos are my favorite dish at Mexican restaurants.  Everyone does them a little different, but the essence is the same: pablano pepper stuffed with deliciousness.  While they seem to be mostly filled with cheese and/or chicken (and sometimes pork but I don’t eat pork so I don’t want to count those because I get [...]

Yes, last week was week 13 of my CSA box.  Yes, I’ve missed a few weeks of telling you about my CSA boxes… but, per your suggestions, I’m back and more interesting than ever!  (Well, don’t get your hopes up too much.)  Every week I’m going to do a post on how I used the [...]

Last season I did a post every week on the contents of my CSA boxes.  I started doing it again this year and, as you probably noticed, they dropped off.  Here is an example of what I’m talking about: http://www.eatniks.com/2010/06/csa-year-2-week-5/  So, my faithful readers, do you want me to forget about those posts or return to [...]

If you have ever had the great pleasure of driving down I-85 South through South Carolina on your way to Georgia, you have seen the PEACH.  The big posterior-looking peach water tower in Gaffney, SC.  Complete with the little nubbin that you find at the bottom of peaches and a leaf on top.  It looks [...]

My Summer of Tomatoes is going very well.  I love them.  That’s weird, I know.  To clarify, I love the good ones.  The bad ones are dead to me.  This week we got these adorable baby heirloom tomatoes from the CSA.  They were all different colors and some were shaped sort of like bowling pins.  [...]

I remember when I started really getting into cooking that I would either crave an ingredient or have the urge to try a particular technique.  I wanted to braise something so I would search for recipes and go buy the necessary ingredients.  I wanted to try cooking with coconut milk so I would find a [...]

I’m sorry for not posting on my CSA boxes over the past few weeks. Things have been pretty hectic.  But that’s no excuse.  Anyway, I’m back! My boxes have been great lately — overflowing with fabulous veggies!  Ok, not overflowing but close.  This week was my first lettuce-free box of the year!  Woohoo! – Cucumbers [...]

Two years ago this month Mike and I went on our honeymoon to Greece.  We spent some time in Santorini and in Athens, but the highlight of our trip was our time in Crete.  The scenery, the history, the food… oh, the food.  We ate moussaka that was great and of course we ate gyro [...]

Still lettuce… trying to keep my chin up. Things that make me happy about this box: sugarsnap peas; spring onions; tomatoes that I now eat and can put on my abundance of lettuce; zucchini and squash to pickle.  Things are good.  I’m not complaining. At least my other ingredients are a little more exciting: – [...]

It is no secret that I love to grill.  Anything that I can grill gets grilled.  Why not tomatoes for a quick fabulous sauce?  Why haven’t I done this before? In my CSA box this week I got one beautiful deep red tomato; it was such an incredible color that I picked up a couple [...]