Preach!: Meat and Tights

Preach!: Meat and Tights

Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm We have been customers of Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm for two years now and I can't say enough good things about this community-supported agriculture (CSA) situation. For $570 a year we receive bimonthly packages of high-quality, locally-raised chicken, pork, beef and eggs.  The shares are delivered conveniently and reliably to Provenance in Lincoln Square. [...]

Lettuce Week: Thursday

Lettuce Week: Thursday

Produce: Speckled Bibb and Baby Leaf Mix Lettuce Recipe: Scallop and Citrus Salad from Mark Bittman's Kitchen Express. With apologies to Mr. Bittman, here's a picture of the recipe: No fancy food photography available, so instead I'll show you a picture of what dinner usually looks like around here: a laptop and some ill-gotten HBO GO [...]

Lettuce Week: Wednesday

Lettuce Week: Wednesday

The garden consumption continues, although tonight we took a break from salads. Produce: Spinach.  I should know by now that when it comes to cooked spinach, I never prepare enough.  I harvest a huge amount like this, thinking I've conquered the insufficient cooked spinach issue, and then it wilts down to a mound the size of [...]

Lettuce Week: Monday

Lettuce Week: Monday

Get excited: it's motherf'ing lettuce week.  Our garden has exploded within the last two weeks: the photo on the left was taken on May 13th, the one on the right on May 27th. Now it's time to start eating the bounty.  The lettuce/kale/spinach in particular needs to be consumed before it goes to seed.  So, [...]