Butternut Sage Orzo
A perfect turkey day side dish or a nice Sunday afternoon lunch. Much less fussy than risotto!
Simply in Season
Chicken and Chickpea Soup
Ok folks, this is heavily adapted from Simply in Season. I started with a 3 lb stewing chicken, the one left from last week’s farm pickup. At about 7 AM this morning I put it, along with 9 cups of water, an onion cut in wedges, 2 peeled whole cloves of garlic, 1 stick of …
Pear Custard Pie
This was my second pear custard contribution to Thanksgiving, and I have to say that I preferred it over the other one from Simply in Season. I really liked the creamy texture contrasted with the underripe pears (which was an accident since that’s all the store had, but it worked out for the best. Plus, …
Pear Custard Bars
For the crust: Cream together 1/3 C butter, 1/3 C sugar, 3/4 C whole wheat flour, and 1/4 tsp vanilla. Stir in 2/3 C nuts and press into the bottom of an 8×8 pan and bake at 350F for 20 minutes. Cool in pan on wire rack. For the filling: Beat 8 oz cream cheese, …
Chicken Vegetable Soup
While the recipe in Simply in Season merely calls for a 3 pound whole chicken, I knew that this was the perfect recipe for a stewing chicken. Stewing chickens are usually tough old birds and are very inexpensive, even when they are the organic free range variety that I get from the farm where I …