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Farmer's market today! I continue my "curse" of mostly buying non-vegetable items at the farmer's market, so I decided that I'd make a meal full of vegetables: mashed turnips, golden beets, brussels sprouts, and bacon.
Everything but the bacon, salt, sugar, and butter is local-- the bacon may be, but I'm not sure where Shopper's gets theirs.
Dinner tonight was mashed turnips, golden beets, brussels sprouts, and bacon.
Mashed turnips: kinda boring, really. I think that they got too water-logged when I cooked them-- the recipe called for peeling, dicing, and boiling them. I think that next time, I'll steam the turnips, and then peel, dice, and mash them.
Golden Beets: om nom nom. I think that I could eat these raw, as I seem to perpetually undercook them. But then, beets are nearly always delicious.
Brussels Sprouts: slightly undercooked, but in a tasty crunchy way, not a nasty coleslaw way. I wanted to finish things at a reasonable hour, so I took them out of the water that they'd been boiling in, and sauteed them briefly in the bacon pan. Helped the flavour, but they needed they extra time to cook. This, naturally, brings us to...
Bacon! I love bacon. It's one of my favorite foods. I could eat it every day (but I don't!) Most delicious part of the meal.
I would likely (and likely will!) cook the separate parts of this meal again. I don't think that I would do it as one meal (there is no starch!), but if I added some potatoes to the turnip mash, that would solve the problem. Hrm. It was very visually pleasing (green and yellow and pink and white), but not nearly so pleasing in taste.
Things I also bought today: cippolini onions, raisins, olive oil, fresh pasta, four kinds of cheese (Mt. Tam, gorgonzola, Red Dragon, and... something I don't remember.), eggs, seeds, a whole crab, and a hose.
Everything but the bacon, salt, sugar, and butter is local-- the bacon may be, but I'm not sure where Shopper's gets theirs.
Dinner tonight was mashed turnips, golden beets, brussels sprouts, and bacon.
Mashed turnips: kinda boring, really. I think that they got too water-logged when I cooked them-- the recipe called for peeling, dicing, and boiling them. I think that next time, I'll steam the turnips, and then peel, dice, and mash them.
Golden Beets: om nom nom. I think that I could eat these raw, as I seem to perpetually undercook them. But then, beets are nearly always delicious.
Brussels Sprouts: slightly undercooked, but in a tasty crunchy way, not a nasty coleslaw way. I wanted to finish things at a reasonable hour, so I took them out of the water that they'd been boiling in, and sauteed them briefly in the bacon pan. Helped the flavour, but they needed they extra time to cook. This, naturally, brings us to...
Bacon! I love bacon. It's one of my favorite foods. I could eat it every day (but I don't!) Most delicious part of the meal.
I would likely (and likely will!) cook the separate parts of this meal again. I don't think that I would do it as one meal (there is no starch!), but if I added some potatoes to the turnip mash, that would solve the problem. Hrm. It was very visually pleasing (green and yellow and pink and white), but not nearly so pleasing in taste.
Things I also bought today: cippolini onions, raisins, olive oil, fresh pasta, four kinds of cheese (Mt. Tam, gorgonzola, Red Dragon, and... something I don't remember.), eggs, seeds, a whole crab, and a hose.