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What geeks eat... What geeks eat... Vanessa writes a food blog about foraging, cooking, eating, and thinking in Wisconsin. 
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Quinoa salad?the new tabbouleh
2007-07-08 02:19:00 Grain salads are so versatile and accommodating. I absolutely adore tabbouleh…but it must be made with tomatoes so fresh they scream when you slice them…and it’s just not tomato season yet. So instead I fashioned a new tabbouleh using quinoa, mint, zucchini, green onions, dried cranberries, and pistachios. I tossed it all with an over-the-top, ... More About: Salad , Quinoa
Fudgie bananarama cake
2007-07-06 02:52:00 One of the best parts of living is Wisconsin is the abundant availability of safe, legal fireworks. Every year we enjoy blowing up as many as we can possibly afford…it is a little like burning money or maybe gambling(?), but much more fun! Before it got dark last night we fueled ourselves up with a ... More About: Cake , Nana , Nara
Tangled up in green
2007-07-03 17:45:00 Wow…what a difference a month makes around here. Saturday’s market was overflowing with fresh, local produce. We purchased tender mushrooms, fresh and fragrant basil, strawberries, and black raspberries. We picked up our order from Willow Creek Farm and chatted with Tony Renger about corn and soybean prices and ethanol. We were headed out when I ... More About: Green , Tangled , Tang , Angle
Strawberry fool forever
2007-07-01 06:20:00 Just in case you didn’t notice…it’s berry season here in Wisconsin. But I promise this will be my last strawberry post…they’re almost out of season. But today at the farmers’ market I picked up some black raspberries so expect the beloved galette to reappear next with those dark delights inside. I’ve been reading Nigel Slater’s Real ... More About: Strawberry , Fool , Local , Forever , Fore
Marinade of the moment
2007-06-28 01:53:00 For me, summer is all about taking joy in the moment. Falling asleep on a really hot and humid night; the ceiling fan on full blast, all the windows open, the sounds of the bugs pulsing in the night. Walking along and seeing a linden tree covered in red admiral butterflies. Waking up in the ... More About: Moment , Mari , Marina , Nade
Local all year long, and cake too!
2007-06-22 20:00:00 Eating local, as much as possible, all year long is my goal. But I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not able to give up coffee, vanilla, bananas, wine, etc, etc, etc… But I can do better by storing local produce when it is available at its best here in Wisconsin. That means that ... More About: Cake , Local , Long , Year , Loca
A perfect local lunch
2007-06-20 00:35:00 These little beauties are the result of some excellent gathering on my part. Fresh baquette smeared with garlic scape pesto, topped with local hot-house tomatoes, new onions, and a slice of aged Fantome Farm goat cheese. Olive oil and fleur de sel grace the top…but that does seem like a perfect example of gilding the ... More About: Lunch , Local , Perfect , Loca
Garlic scape pesto
2007-06-16 21:08:00 Garlic scapes are the flower/seed stalk that shoots up from the garlic bulb. I like the way they curl and from what I understand if they not cut off they will eventually straighten out and bloom. The reason they cut them off they is so the bulb can get more energy to grow bigger and ... More About: Garlic , Pesto , Arli , Scape
Cherry ginger chicken - WHB
2007-06-12 03:11:00 I find myself in the unlikely predicament of wanting to eat bland food. Cereal and milk with berries, yogurt with berries, a handful of cherries, red tea…just the usual standbys but that’s all I want to eat. I had surgery last week and although I’m on the mend after a week of resting it seems ... More About: Chicken , Ginger , Cherry
Panna cotta with caramel sauce
2007-06-08 04:55:00 I’ve always adored panna cotta. I know there are those who say it is too bland, others claim that it’s culinary star is tarnished and out-of-date. Could that be because it is so simple, straightforward, and pleasing to the cook and the diner? At any rate I pfftt the naysayers! Yes, pfftt is a ... More About: Local , Sauce , Caramel , Cara
Excuse me, you left the door open?
2007-06-02 21:23:00 It’s a large refrigerator and almost 15 years old…note the duct tape on the door. What you don’t see is two produce drawers…one has bags of baby spinach and arugala and two giant fresh artichokes. The other has potatoes for a potato au gratin and a bag of trail mix that I mix myself from ... More About: Open , Wisconsin , Local , Left , Excuse
Geeks eat fast food too
2007-06-01 02:23:00 I was deep into database-world today at work. Part of my day job is to make maps that are graphical representations of underlying databases. I love this part of my job because it is such a cool mix of design and database manipulation. On the way home I stopped by Trader Joe’s to get Double ... More About: Food , Geeks , Fast Food , Fast
Two pastas, one quick and easy meal
2007-05-30 14:49:00 What is better than pasta? Two pastas! This is an easy solution for those nights when I know everyone needs a good meal but I’m really short on time and inspiration. This is so quick that it’s prepared in the time it takes to boil the water and cook the pasta …about 20 minutes. One ... More About: Wisconsin , Local , Quick , Easy , Meal
Muffin + Smoked Pork Jowl = Crack Muffin
2007-05-27 19:30:00 I wish I had a dime for every time I’ve thought “this would be so much better with bacon”. It is an almost universal thought among devotees of pork fat that the inclusion of bacon or some other smoked pork product, will make anything better. These muffins certainly prove the truth of that cliche…they’re crack ... More About: Local , Pork , Crack , Rack , Muffin
Best burger,ever
2007-05-25 16:38:00 No… not this one! The best burger, ever was scarfed down without restraint… it was so damn good I didn’t get a photo. The best burger ever was 1/3 of pound of grass-fed, organic beef, grilled to a medium-rare perfection, and served on a lightly toasted whole wheat bun with vine-grown, local tomatoes (green-house), vidalia onions, pickles, ... More About: Wisconsin , Local , Burger , Urge
Almost Tassajara?lemon poppy seed muffins
2007-05-23 15:31:00 GH and I got married in 1988 in San Francisco. We were renting a studio apartment in the outer sunset and either the weather was glorious with luminous sunshine, or cold and miserable with incredibly dense fog. Honestly I don’t remember what it was like that day, but I do remember friends and family came ... More About: Lemon , Muffins , Seed , Muffin , Fins
Breakfast of Geeks
2007-05-19 18:47:00 Willow Creek Farm bacon New Century eggs scrambled Hashbrowns Waffles with maple syrup Strawberries, raspberries, and bananas LW Dairy orange juice I bet you had a breakfast just like this, right? Doesn’t everybody? I’ve been promising the boys a big breakfast on Saturday and I delivered. It must be noted that this would not have been possible without the expert ... More About: Geeks , Breakfast , Wisconsin , Local , Fast
Rhubarb Jumble
2007-05-16 18:56:00 Not a pie, not a cobbler, not a grunt, not a crisp…it’s a Jumble! I love this dessert. I created it on the fly yesterday and it turned out perfect. The crust is sweet and crunchy on the outside…almost like a sugar cookie, and sturdy and resistant to sogginess on the bottom. It was quick, easy, ... More About: Wisconsin , Local
Green pizza: weekend herb blogging
2007-05-11 21:54:00 In my last post I promised a green pizza, the inspiration for which came from the contents of my CSA box. It also seems like a natural post for Weekend Herb Blogging hosted by Up A Creek Without A PatL. For this pizza I used my standard pizza crust, covered with basil pesto, then a layer ... More About: Pizza , Green , Wisconsin
CSA: what?s in the box?
2007-05-11 00:52:00 Our fellow blogging geeks over at My Food Geek are also members of a CSA, in sunny, sublime, San Diego. They have challenged us to a What’s in your box off and I of course agreed to show mine…I’m not shy! Working the photo clockwise, starting on the left: Salad Mix Spinach Cherokee Head Lettuce Saute Mix Deep Purple and White ... More About: Wisconsin , Local
A Taste of Yellow - Pound Cake to live strong by
2007-05-03 20:05:00 I am a avid fan of Lance Armstrong. I admire his athletic ability, his battle against cancer, and his willingness to put it all together for the greater good. When Lance was competing in the Tour de France I watched every day. I knew all the contenders, I studied and researched to understand the strategic ... More About: Cake , Live , Local , Yellow , Taste
What we?ve been eating
2007-04-29 19:21:00 A luscious kumquat basil tart from The Tart Lady. A light dessert of homemade yogurt with raspberry coulis. Ostrich tenderloin teriyaki served on a bed of baby saute greens. Beautiful warm weather is here and with it, a lighter hand in cooking. The tart was purchased at the Westside Community Farmers’ Market and though it was early ... More About: Eating , Been
Tatsoi and other delicious veggies
2007-04-26 22:55:00 Look what the CSA bunny brought this week! Too bad I wasn’t here, otherwise I might have caught his fluffy little butt and cooked him right up. This week we have more salad mix, saute mix, spinach, ramps, and radishes. New this week is a small head of romaine lettuce, tatsoi, dandelion greens, and watercress. Tasoi ... More About: Delicious , Deli
Sunday Roast on Tuesday
2007-04-26 00:34:00 The simplest of meals are usually the best. Exceptional products and ingredients join together to provide a meal worthy of a queen…namely me. This was certainly the case yesterday. I didn’t get started putting this in the oven until after 5:30 but the prep work was minimal and by 6:30 we were happily dining on ... More About: Sunday , Tuesday , Roast
Dane County Farmers? Market
2007-04-24 02:46:00 Here in Madison we have several very good Farm ers’ Mark et s. I usually go to the West Side Community Market held in the shadow of the DOT building. But Madison is known for its large Dane Count y Farmers’ Market held on the Capital Square in Madison. This market is so bizarre that I’ve always had a ...
Admire my arugala, lust for my lettuce
2007-04-20 02:15:00 Vermont Valley CSA’s Spring Share is better than christmas. After a long, cold winter with very few fresh greens it is a true embarrassment of riches today. We’re site host for Vermont Valley and although we only have a few Spring Share subscribers I thought I would begin a weekly feature of What’s In ... More About: Lust , Gala , Admire
Naturally fizzy, fuzzy, Izze
2007-04-19 00:24:00 A few years ago GH and the boys were hooked on sodas like Coca Cola. Gradually it became obvious to GH that the high fructose corn syrup sweetener in the Coke was giving him an upset stomach. So GH cut back and then stopped drinking Coke and he felt much better. Alex was drinking at ... More About: Rally , Naturally , Natur , Natura , Ally
Hail Britannia: a Fish & Quips Extravaganza
2007-04-17 00:46:00 Sam Breach, self-described English-girl-abroad and author of Becks and Posh, is hosting Fish & Quips, an online event designed to promote the idea that English cooking is not always a joke. I feel especially lucky and relevant since we spent 12 days in London last month, and as always, we found food. The feast you ... More About: Extra , Rava , Xtra
Springtime Asparagus Risotto
2007-04-14 19:42:00 At last…we’ve joyfully reached the end of a long week that included a semi-unseasonable snow fall that spawned a snowday and an emergency math tutoring session delivered by me, the infamous math idiot. But the tutoring session was successful and with a glass of wine I sat down yesterday to see what I need to ... More About: Time , Spring , Springtime , Ring , Para
Salmon and quinoa salad
More articles from this author:2007-04-10 23:55:00 Another delicious meal inspired by two of my favorite food blogs What We’re Eating and 101 Cookbooks. Lately the most difficult part of blogging and cooking is that I go out to the food blogosphere to find inspiration and I become distracted by all the pretty food. Food porn is a great way ... More About: Salad , Sala , Quinoa 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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