Our recipe from last week, for old-fashioned strawberry preserves, has been a popular post… did anyone try it? We’d welcome comments on how it turned out.
On to the roundup!
Pat at Cooking from the Market was out of town at the beginning of week three and missed the farmers’ market, so she turned to her pantry and freezer for inspiration. Utilizing local, canned crab meat, Pat made some TASTY looking crab cakes… and she is oh, so kind to share her recipe. A side dish of Kohlrabi slaw rounded out the meal.
Eugenia at Culinaria Eugenius has some great ideas for fava beans and provides a recipe for Couscous Topped with Favas and Caramelized Fennel and Onion. (Yum.)
Over at Greenscraps, they took some inspiration from Michael Pollan and are enjoying the community.
Jen at Jen’s Page reminds me that she’s been breastfeeding… and it doesn’t get much more local than that, does it? (Okay, I posted a link to this last week but then second-guessed if she’d want me to do that and removed it. So here it is, back again!)
As for me, my husband and I picked up a pint of strawberries at the Corvallis farmers’ market and I’d say we made it about 10 yards before parking ourselves on a bench along the river and eating every last berry. No strawberry jam for me. That night, we enjoyed a salad made with greens and carrots and a few other things picked up from the Dennison Farm stand. I’m always struck by how fresh the greens taste when compared to, for example, bagged salads. I know we’ll all be sick of lettuce in another week or two (or are we already?), but for now… tasty.
Recipe of the week, coming up in a bit!
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