Dress the gratin with this bright green sauce of oregano and parsley. It would be nice to say that Heidi of 101 Cookbooks wrote a bum recipe, but that would be a lie. I was hungry and impatient. Consequently, the potatoes in this gratin were underdone. And that’s the truth, the powdery, uncooked potato truth. […]
Dear Zucchini Diary: Squash side on the fly
Cook butterstick until al dente. Adding salt will help the squash release water. My culinary creativity and thrift skills were put to the test Sunday. I faced a near-empty fridge. I had just returned from a weekend getaway; my vacation hangover was waxing. And I had only a few hours before I went to work. […]
Dear Zucchini Diary: Grown-up cookies
See the tiny golden flecks? There’s a vegetable in these cookies! The summer squash in this recipe is on a covert mission. Its objective: to add moisture to these not-too-sweet cookies. Mission: accomplished. I shredded the butterstick in my Cuisinart food processor using the shredding disc. Then I chopped it more using the standard food […]
Dear Zucchini Diary: Zucchini in the Zeitgeist
Big butterstick summer squash, what is your destiny? Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smelled a bunch of zucchini recipes. The summer squash plants at VHHQ are starting to produce. The crop this year may not be great. It’s been a cool summer in Madison. But I’ve already plucked a butterstick as big as my forearm and a pool […]
Bottled
MVH fills bottles. First there was brewing. Then there was grainy tea. Then there was transferring the beer to the secondary fermentor (this wasn’t particularly interesting, so I skipped showing this part of the brewing process). After the secondary fermentor, which is a glass bottle large enough to hold the volume of two cases of […]
The big coverup
Lest you think all I do around here is eat, here’s a glimpse at a pair of clothing projects. I have a beach vacation coming up, and I need swimsuit coverups that are more stylish than an oversized Brewers T-shirt (charming as it may be). I want coverups that go from beach to cafe and […]