New year, new patio. Not only a new patio but a new fire, err, cylinder. Also lots of adorable weather. FND needs to take advantage of these circumstances!
We have lots of veggie burgers and really decent hotdogs, maybe a couple salmon burgers too. To prevent scurvy or rickets or whatever I will conjure up fresh CSA greens in a brothy way.
The fire not-a-pit really needs to be test fired – so marshmallows are mandatory.
Have a great weekend!
Down in the root cellar we’re gathering provisions for mashed potatoes topped with parmesan, bacon, onion, garlic, and/or whatever else comes to hand and can be sauteed and then roasted for good measure. Because it was wet and cold. Well it was wet.
Anyway the yams are right next to the Idahos so they can be casseroled with some butternut squash and maybe a pinch of cloves.
The CSA brought some little yeller things, no idea what they are so: frying ’em.
I think that’s about it unless some sainted genius brings a pie, or a pie shell, or something to put into a pie shell. We can contribute a Rome and an Ambrosia to that sort of idea.
Have a great weekend, this last weekend before the break, glorious break, all hail the holiday.
Posted in Announcements, Comfort, Seasonal, Vegetarian
We’re going to make food that you’re not supposed to eat until _after_ you’ve eaten your vegetables.
Originally I thought, Halloween, we need to make Anti-comfort food. Scary food. “Food”. But who’d really show up and eat opossum with me? Anyway I think the coyotes got the one I was going to cook.
If you have a favorite TGIF dish bring that or tell me (Sam) in the next few hours and I will try to get/make it.
Ray is in Sunny upstate NY on a mission so secret we aren’t allowed to even know the city (Potsdam).
Welcome to the weekend!
We have shells and various parts and ingredients. Need more parts and people to eat assembled food items.
Posted in Announcements
A tale of three soups: Chicken, squash, and tomato.
Once upon a time I had just cooked chicken* and made quite a bit of broth, so I made it into chicken potato soup. Super tasty, but I also had some CSA squash** to deal with.
In a flash the idea: make it into soup with the CSA banana peppers.
Oh hey, what to do with these tomatoes?
Soup? A little spicey, a hint of cream? Could it be?
And of course, in the event three soups are made in one day, the Articles of Dinnerification indicate a quantity of garlic bread measuring not less than 1/2 the total wet volume must be produced. Good thing the CSA brought garlic too.
That is obviously too much food for two people to eat***, what to do? How will it end?
*free range, organic
**free range, organic
***Ray is on a sekrit mission
Posted in Announcements, Soup
Breakfast! English muffin with avocado, sliced cherry tomatoes, poached egg and a sploink of goats’ cheese. Pancakes with mashed strawberry and pear topping. Oats with raisins and pecans, etc etc. Breakfast!
Posted in Announcements, Breakfast
On this, the last* FND of the Summer of 2011, the good citizens will gather around their table of tubers, and yea they will descend on the fluffy starch nuggets and assorted suitable condiments with steely knives and ravenous appetites.
Also there will be a variety of pre-feast noshies.
So: bring your favorite person, potato augmentation, and/or appetizer. Drinks and desserts are always good too.
*last, schmast. We have to go back to CA but FND cannot be stopped!
Posted in Announcements, Appetizers, Comfort, Vegetarian
FND is primarily a communal kickoff for the well-deserved weekend, but we do tend to push the culinary envelope a fair amount.
We’re gutsy, possibly even reckless.
Case in point: tomorrow we will eat food which could be presented as either a salad OR a sandwich OR an open-faced sandwich OR (just one example) a salad with toasted bread cut into small to medium sized cubes sprinkled on top. Toastettes, if you will. Toasticles, if you won’t.
Of course these salads may be meaty or meat-free and the bread may be made from any grain or combination of grains, or even simple seeds.
Because that is just how we cook at FND.
Thanks everyone for the feast last week. Hard to pick a favorite but it could have been the duck eggs or the spring rolls or the fruit salad or the tofu or the stir fry or the Loco Pops pints.
Posted in Announcements, Sandwiches -- English?, Summer, Vegetarian
Phil has a whole mess-o-chinese broccoli in his fridge just waiting for us to create a meal around it.
So bring on your favorite foods from Asia (define that how you like).
For self-organizational goodness, you gotta be brave with the FND blog. Many folks said they were “waiting for others to post.” C’mon — go for it! Post what you are bringing (I’ll moderate/approve the comments) and you can check the blog later to see how many folks are showing up and what we still need.
…which is what we affectionately call french toast, pancakes, maple syrup and chai. Hardly any spam (cue Vikings).
