We're focusing on the harvest this month at The Kitchn. We plan to kick off our own harvest weekend by roasting these Chocolate Beauty red peppers we picked up at the market yesterday. Fennel, celery, and onion might join them too, maybe with a little butter and chicken stock to sweeten the deal.
What are you cooking tonight? Here are a few ideas from the last week at The Kitchn.
Try one of these recipes, tips, or ideas this weekend; we think you might enjoy them!
• Fresh oatmeal bread, ideal for toasting
• An easy formula for making pickles - Use up all that bounty from the garden!
• A fruit crostata, made with seasonal prune plums and topped with brown sugar
• Crispy, delicate tea cookies made in the food processor
• The ultimate harvest cake, with goat cheese frosting
• Pan-fried pasta, with autumn squash, sage, and pine nuts
• Baked eggs for an easy brunch
• Kabocha squash pie for vegans - with rosemary
There are a dozen good ideas to stay in the kitchen this weekend. Do you have one or two more for us?
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Yes! Put that late summer sweet corn you're finding cheap at the farmers' markets to good use with sweet corn, chanterelle mushroom dumplings...recipe here: http://kumquatconnection.typepad.com/kumquat_connection/2008/09/in-honor-of-my-relocation-to-the-midwestwe-celebrate-corn.html
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Pumpkin pie to celebrate the first rain of winter in the Bay Area! Wooohoo!
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thinking about making english muffin so i can make sandwiches next week. I also have some stale bread, so maybe bread pudding?
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I just finished baking two batches of Texas-sized cupcakes for a community bake sale -- used a cake recipe from the back of the Hershey's canister. Gave a couple to a neighbor for helping me with a vehicular task, then took the rest to the bake sale coordinator. Am planning on baking a loaf of the oatmeal bread this weekend and possibly finding a discounted cut of meat to cook in my crock pot (joy joy joy, it's getting cool again!).
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A big pot of minestrone, half to enjoy this weekend, half to freeze.
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Like berkeleydaisy, we are also enjoying the first rain of the season in Northern California. Last night was chicken cacciatore with some crusty bread to sop it all up. Tonight is dinner out to celebrate our 6th wedding anniversary and tomorrow morning will be scrambled eggs w/chives, croissants and champagne.
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chicken in reisling, inspired by the Bitten Word
http://www.gourmet.com/recipes/2000s/2008/03/chickeninriesling
that's the photographer who does blue, isn't it? I am just dying to get those plates!
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Oh, and tonight we had cheese fondue, made of local cheeses from the town of Semsales in Gruyère....
We had attended the annual désalpe there today -- the day when the cows come home from their summer Alpine pastures, and parade through the village all gussied up with flowers and their ceremonial bells -- special cows get to wear small Christmas trees decorated with flowers on their heads (no one has explained that one to me, but they are all very pretty!).
The one we went to is one of the last of the season -- there is one major one left next week, but pretty much the season is over, and the cows have come home -- that is when you know it is truly autumn in Switzerland.
When we got to the town in which it was being held, we couldn't believe the snow -- and not just at high elevations -- just above the town! We didn't get to stay as long as we would have liked, didn't get our fill of parading cows and alpenhorns, but had to leave after being soaked to the skin from the rain, ice pellets and snow. Not typical weather for early October! We felt sorry for the cows; some had been walking for over 3 hours in this weather, and all were moving at a very brisk pace today, eager to be home!
http://www.desalpe-semsales.ch/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=10
http://www.lyoba.ch/culture/desalpe/desalpe.htm
So, somehow only a cheese fondue made of Semsales' cheeses would do tonight.
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had pancakes this morning with some homemade blueberry compote. I have great plans to make an enormous pot of chili this weekend with a bunch of different kinds of peppers and hopefully some roasted tomatoes.
And there might be either cake or lemon meringue pie if things at work cooperate.
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It really feels like fall in New Hampshire this weekend. I am cooking up a squash soup with apples and curry. The onions are caramelizing now and the house smells amazing.
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Vegetable beef stew with a Pinot base over home made egg nodels.
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Making stock tomorrow from some lovely (and cheap!) lamb bones from the farmer's market. Not sure exactly how I'll do it (roast first?) or how it will come out, but I thought it would work for french onion soup next week, and maybe a mushroom-barley soup, too?
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mschatelaine, there are some plates that color at Fishes Eddy on Broadway...on sale, too.
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things at work do not cooperate. so: no chili, no pie or cake and i'm up to my ankles in work. so i'll just live vicariously through you guys.
mgood: make a barley pseudo-risotto.
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The boys stayed up late Friday and made three batches of peanut butter cookies over the weekend. They had cheese omelets for breakfast, broccoli with shrimp and rice for lunch and stir fried vegetables with chicken for dinner on Saturday. Today, it was salmon cakes with carmelized onions, hot dogs for lunch and my youngest son's favorite - "stuffing soup" with baked chicken thighs and green beans.
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