Cuisine Capers

A Grilled Caesar Salad with Steak and Blue Cheese is filling, flavorful, and healthy! It is also a great way to use produce in your CSA box!

The First BLT of the Season
One of our favorite traditions revolves around the very first home grown tomato of the summer. We typically see this special tomato somewhere around the Fourth of July. This year, we saw it the week before that.We watch our plants in anticipation, awaiting the ripening, and planning it around a [...]

Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Ramp, Scallion and Mustard Sauce

It’s early spring in Wisconsin, and if you get a CSA produce box, chances are that you are also getting ramps. I’m always looking for ways to incorporate ramps into my cooking for the very limited time that they are available. You can read about ramps, and [...]

A couple of weeks ago I mused about making a Ramp Pesto. I posted this in the blog mainly so that I wouldn’t forget about it. Since that posting I keep getting lots and lots of hits from people searching for Ramp Pesto. Who knew?
So this weekend I made a foray to the Dane County [...]

I have been spending a lot of time working on my Cooking Out of the Box blog. It is a blog dedicated to the challenge involved in the participation in a Community Supported Agriculture program (CSA). Why is that taking a priority in my life? Because we get our first box this weekend! It’s been [...]

Hmmmmmm. Ramp Pesto. I haven’t thought of that before. But, it is ramp season, and I am always interested in “pesto” style endeavors…. stay tuned!
Edited: Ramp Pesto here.

One excellent way to use up that summer produce is to throw together a nice, light, summery soup that helps you empty out your fridge.
The good thing about this soup is that it is quick, healthy, and extremely flexible. The bad thing about this soup is that though it is quick, it is also [...]

Nothing screams summer more than sweet corn and massive quantities of zucchini. Based on that, it is safe to say that I’ve got a lot of screaming going on in my house right now.
So in an effort to reduce that noise level, last night we made what has to be in contention for the epitome [...]

You can tell when the peak produce season is nearing by the fact that you can no longer lift your CSA produce box with one hand. The fact of the matter is, this week I could barely lift the box with both hands.
I’ve been doing very, very badly at using the produce that I’ve been [...]

Those of you who have read my blog over the last year+ may be wondering why I’ve stopped mentioning my adventures with my Community Supported Agriculture program. It occurs to me that it may seem like we no longer participate, and nothing could be further from the truth!
I’ve been throwing together a new blog [...]