A few days before my trip to Boston, the girls emailed me a list of vegetables they had on-hand from their farm share. My job was to bring recipe ideas for a gourmet cooking event on Friday night.
The ingredients:
- Hen of the woods mushrooms
- Turnips
- Shell beans
- Potatoes
- Carrots
- Butternut squash
- Buttercup squash
- Pumpkin
- Parsley
- Apples
And cook we did. Four recipes from Bon Appetit magazine, as a matter of fact. I think that's a personal record for one night (and not likely to happen again soon.) Totally, completely worth it, however.
The dishes:
- Salad: Arugula with goat cheese, golden raisins and red wine vinaigrette (a variation on this recipe)
- Entree: Wild Mushroom Risotto
- Side: Skillet Turnips and Potatoes with Bacon
- Dessert: Old-Fashioned Mixed-Apple Pie
The finished products (please excuse me forgetting to change the white balance between living room and kitchen):
The process (a box of red wine from Trader Joe's may have been involved):
Surprisingly, the potatoes might have been the biggest hit (other than the pie). But everything was delicious and these recipes are absolutely going into my regular rotation.
Also: who knew that you could (slash, should) put tapioca in a pie? I had never heard of this before, but apparently it's "a thing." My new best trick.
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