Roast Chicken and Veg

MMMmmmmm fall harvest is beginning and with lots of veg coming out my ears and a whole chicken in the freezer a roast sounded delish. Soo on with the nom! -
Roasted chicken stuffed with rosemary, parsley, sage, and other herbs from garden as well as onion and garlic - in pan with onion, potato and peppers
for a side.....More roast veg! num!
a layered dish of tomatoes, onion, zuchinni, and eggplant with a sprinkling of cheese throughout.
along side - bread - nice and crunchy - homemade - reheated. so good

Chicken + Eggplant Parm

Chicken Parm, Eggplant Parm - served over spaghetti = very very very full. (sorry no pics was too hungry and it got devoured by all). The eggplant were small round disc's and soo good.

Food Porn

So I read an article the other day
http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest/at-on/at-on-the-lost-art-of-cookingmichael-pollan-in-the-new-york-times-7292009-091911

which said we are all watching *more* food shows/etc but actually cooking less. I blame Food Porn (thanks for the image Anthony Bourdain). We all love food porn in all its various forms. Talking about it (the chocolate was molten and oozed from the cookies), watching it (10,000 cooking programs are proof of that), as well as flipping through it (cookbooks? - how many have a collection of these). Something about the primal language of the body speaks to the eye candy of food products. We even participate in food porn when we go out to eat - but like all porn its so much more fun when we don't have to make it ourselves. I think the work involved in creating your own foods speaks to other things within us, but takes away from the insta-gratification/illusion that is food porn. Good thing cooking/baking is just as primal :)

CSA Weekly Haul

So today is CSA (community supported agriculture) day. Which means - we have received our tote of fresh from the farm veggies for the week. Today's haul:
Carrots (a load of really yummy sweet covered in dirt carrots)
Sweet corn
Tomatoes (the first of the season)
Eggplants
Kholrabi
Green beans
Cabbage
Beets
Zucchini
Squash
Poblano Peppers
Cucumbers

Find your own CSA at: http://www.localharvest.org/csa/


So...Who's *YOUR* farmer???

Fish pie

MMMMmmmmm fish pie - think shepard's pie but with fish and white sauce - so good - hearty/filling - you can just picture a fisherman sloughing off wet things and cozy'ing up to a fire place with a bowl of this. Too good.

Trials and tribulations

One of the constant struggles of daily life is "what to have for dinner?????" It becomes a rifling of cookbook piles and freezer/fridge findings amongst other things. (Can you tell what time of day it is in the house?) Today I am leaning towards something with chicken in the chinese/thai land of flavours. We shall see what I end up with.
now...back to the recipe hunt

and after all that - ended up with decidedly not asian at all - English fish pie from my aunt :) nummy

Cookbook overload

So I suffer (or relish in) cookbook overload. I *may* have one or two or 100 'ish. (for complete listing visit my other addiction - Librarything.com and view my books: user:evedeve)

Now these books range from the little supermarket grabs to the poshy ones to the beat up, found in the back bin of a used book store, splattered and dogeared books. There are recipe cards, and books and now the websites (like recipezaar) all tempting me and taunting me. Even the motion picture world seems to have jumped on the bandwagon (that new Julia/Julie movie). Those are just the recipe books - there are even more when you delve into "regular reading" such as mysteries (with recipes!) and gastronomy books etc. Even the travel books give me a bug (usually for breads and hearty soups and teas).

I am trying to make some sense of my culinary ramblings as they cross all food groups, all meals, all regions of the world and some even pop outta my head like mad little things. So if I falter or don't list where I found it or what I did - let me know to keep me focused.