Orecchiette with Greens, Mozzarella and Chickpeas

Recipe 18 - February 29th, 2012

Success!

Orecchiette with Greens, Mozzarella and Chickpeas

This recipe comes from Food and Wine, September 2011

As you can see, I did not use Orecchiette pasta, but Penne pasta for this recipe, since that was what I had in the pantry.  It was very tasty and fresh none-the-less.  The crispy chickpeas is a nice addition.  The tomatoes and chard are fresh and this will be a great recipe for summer when we get lots of chard and tomatoes from the garden and CSA.  

Coffee-Baked Squash with Creme Fraiche

Recipe 3 - January 12th, 2012

Finally Success!

Coffee-Baked Squash with Creme Fraiche

This recipe comes from Food and Wine, January 2012

Chefs: Daniel Patterson and Rene Redzepi

I made this with Delicata squash and another small round yellow and orange squash.  Both from our community share agriculture(CSA - Grant Family Farms) squash bounty.  This is delicious!

Our whole house smelled like roasting coffee and even Erik, who doesn't drink coffee, didn't mind it.  You really can taste the coffee in the squash, just a subtle added taste that was wonderful.  I'm going to run tests as well to see if creme fraiche doesn't make everything taste better...

We had this with baked salmon with a fish rub.  This is definitely going in the recipe binder and I will make it again.  Yippee, finally, success!