The First Salsa of the Season: Radish & Green Tomato

Print Friendly and PDF
nksalsa3(1)

This recipe and post are contributed to Nourished Kitchen by Megan and Rose of Fig and Fauna.  If you are interested in contributing to Nourished Kitchen, please read these guidelines. While every carrot, beet and potato still rest deep beneath the soil, perfectly ombre painted radishes emerge from the surface of the ground. They are [...]

tomatoes provençale & where to find truly good olive oil

Print Friendly and PDF

Tomatoes provençale, a simple dish that highlights the bounty of late summer gardens with its emphasis on fresh tomatoes, finds its way to our table almost daily in August when we buy heirloom tomatoes by the case at our local market.  Tomatoes, you see, don’t do well up here at 9,000 feet.  So we get [...]

welcoming the first frost: spiced lentil soup with roasted heirloom tomatoes

Print Friendly and PDF

The other morning I woke to the thin sheen of the season’s first frost glazing the leaves of my kitchen herbs which grow in mismatched, hand-me-down pots and buckets on my front steps. But it’s only August, I hear you say. Indeed. But here in the heart of the Rockies, where my little nook in the community [...]

Roasted Freak Tomatoes

Print Friendly and PDF

  Something that I always go back to in my quest for frugality is #2 produce.   It’s the freaks of the vegetable world that go overlooked: the misshapen melons, the scarred tomatoes, the peaches with no blush.   Yet, you can buy cases of these vegetable misfits for 20-50% below the regular cost.   [...]