dinner Archives : Page 2 of 14 : Cast Iron Garden

March 28, 2024March 23, 2024

03/23/2024 farm share only

I started this blog post before I realized there was no garden produce in dinner, so here we go anyways.

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March 26, 2024March 23, 2024

03/22/2024 garden tastes

Sometimes it feels like adding cilantro or walking onions is how a lot of dinners end up blog eligible.

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March 22, 2024March 17, 2024

03/16/2024 really good soup

Goodness gracious. Salsa verde is perfection.

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January 28, 2024January 27, 2024

Recent food and beverage

Some tepary beans mixed in those refried beans! The hot sauce is Chimayó pepper mostly. 01/25/2024.

Homemade pasta with homemade pesto. 01/24/2024.

I finally roasted the yaupon holly leaves instead of just having it dehydrated. It’s actually a nice tea now! I did 300 F for somewhere over 1.5 hrs on a cookie sheet. 01/22/2024.

January 14, 2024January 14, 2024

01/13/2024 warm dinner for cold day

Lettuce from the garden with Paula sourdough croutons. Farm share broccoli in the soup and in the venison patties covered with cheese sauce. Garden pesto in the lemon pesto salad dressing, which is apparently now the house dressing.

January 1, 2024January 1, 2024

01/01/2024 new year foods

A ramekin of black eyed peas, a chunk of meatloaf, and a pile of broccoli rice covered with cheese sauce. — The Chef cooked black-eyed peas with jalapeños. They were from our plants (two summers ago) and Rancho Gordo. The cheesy pile is farm share broccoli in rice covered with Welsh rarebit sauce. The meatloaf is ground venison from a friend and includes bread Paula made crumbled up in it.

December 25, 2023December 30, 2023

12/25/2023 leftovers uhuh

A ramekin of chicken tortilla soup garnished with cilantro, a side of refried beans, and chilaquiles topped with an egg.

Cilantro topping chicken tortilla soup with sides of chilaquiles (topped with an egg from Paula’s aunt and uncle farm), and refried beans.

December 23, 2023December 23, 2023

12/23/2023 chicken tortilla soup

Garden cilantro garnish and some frozen corbaci peppers in the soup too. Paula made the corn tortillas from scratch. Delicious work, Chef and Paula.

December 15, 2023December 15, 2023

12/15/2023 pesto tortellini salad

A bright lime green enameled cast iron Dutch oven filled with pesto tortellini salad. It’s on a speckled counter with other kitchen things (stand mixer, empty mug) behind it. The Dutch oven looks well loved. — Garden pesto. The Chef and Paula spent three hours last night hand rolling, filling, and folding the tortellini. Pesto with garden basil is on the outside. The whole pot was gone by the end of the potluck.

December 15, 2023December 15, 2023

12/12/2023 garden cilantro and walking onions

A pile of fried spring rolls, a dish of sauce, and a big bowl of hearty soup with thin sliced beef, shrimp, and topped with cilantro and green onion slices.