Awwww

Awwww

Even W got to try some sweet potatoes from the CSA! He doesn’t really understand them, but he did manage to eat a little.

 

Sweet potato whoopie pies

Sweet potato whoopie pies

Used the America’s Test Kitchen recipe for pumpkin whoopie pies and substituted sweet potato for the pumpkin. Delicious! Like a really good version of carrot …

 

Roast Chicken #1

Roast Chicken #1

We don’t eat much chicken but decided, in an effort to cook more in general and get better at roasting chickens, we’re going to attempt …

 

Chicken stock #1

Chicken stock #1

Used Joy of Cooking brown poultry stock recipe as a guide. 1 chicken carcass Farmers market produce: 2 small onions quartered, 4 ribs celery, 3 cloves garlic 1 …

 

Scramble

Scramble

This was more kale than eggs. Not bad though.

 

Pear cobbler

Pear cobbler

This was alright, we had a lot of pears and it used them up. The topping was a quick biscuit like topping, a little heavy …

 

Stir fry #2

Stir fry #2

Stir fry again (seriously lots of bok choy this year, what’s the deal?), this time added some daikon radish and sweet potatoes.

 

Stir fry #1

Stir fry #1

Decided to make stir fry since we kept getting bok choy and didn’t know what to do with it. The first try was ok, …

 

Sweet potato pie

Sweet potato pie

Used Paula Deen’s recipe for the filling but only used about 3/4 cup flour (recipe called for 1 cup) and mixed 1% milk with heavy …

 

Vegetable soup

Vegetable soup

This used up a bunch of veggies we had lying around – carrots, celery, onion, cabbage, potatoes. We followed the Cook’s Illustrated “better vegetable soup” …