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[sadotter]

I hit the Union Sq. Greenmarket on Saturday, picking up ingredients for a Sunday night dinner, and brought home bundle of carrots and leeks, each as long as my forearm. These were trumped, even more impressively, by the immense forest of celery I wrestled home, nearly as tall as I am. I'm exaggerating only slightly. You know how store-bought

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[kellianne]

it really was delicious. really.

the company was also delicious. good job!

[sadotter]

merci!

[lulabellafp]

You should save the celery trimmings to use in chicken stock. Unless you're not a chicken stock enthusiast.

[sadotter]

I did! and I will! I used them to make stock on Saturday, for the chowder I made on Sunday. There's plenty left over to make more.

[lulabellafp]

Making stock is one of my favorite things to do on rainy or snowy days.

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[nomirena]

I am all about the farmers' markets this year. I go to the one in Union sq (Somerville, that is!) on Saturday mornings. I also had amazing corn last week. And great tomatos and eggplant and zucchini. A friend of mine does local food night dinner at her house once a week and everyone brings something they've made with their bounty. It's delicious. It's tonight in fact and I am going to check out the Newton farmers' market in a little while.

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[sadotter]

Sounds awesome! What have you cooked?

[thewicked3000]

I was looking at that same corn chowder recipe recently. How did you like it?

Making your stock from scratch...impressive!

[sadotter]

naw, man, making stock is easy! easiest thing in the kitchen!

the recipe turned out really well. for the red pepper sauce - definitely get some dried peppers and grind them up yourself -- made it way more tasty than cayenne would. i used New Mexico and some other similar chile -- i cut them into strips and tossed the seeds, toasted the pieces briefly in a pan, and then ground them up in my (recently cleaned) coffee grinder. the final cream sauce was thicker than i would have expected - it's more of a paste than a sauce, but it dissolves nicely in the chowder.

[sticky_as_rice]

It didn't even look the same when it came out, like there was no trail of me eating corn at all...

Did I ruin this post yet?

[sadotter]

yessir, you win the prize.