Cooking Spelt Berries

Posted by on 10:14 am, Jun 9, 2011 in About Your Ingredients | 0 comments

Use spelt berries in place of rice or pasta.  Add them cooked to a salad or soup.  Mix some chicken in with them and make a light dish, served hot or cold.   To cook spelt berries, add 1 cup of spelt berries to 3 cups of simmering water or chicken stock.  Simmer for 1.5 hours.  To make firmer, reduce fluid to 2 cup.

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Rhubarb

Posted by on 10:54 am, Jun 6, 2011 in About Your Ingredients | 0 comments

First, don’t eat any bit of the leaves on the stalk.  Most of the leaves have been removed. The leaves are mildly toxic and will give you stomach pains. Rhubarb is used to make jams, sauces, and for baking.  I was going to write about how to make rhubarb jam…but there are so many variations that it is scary!  In general, you are going to cook rhubarb in a...

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Utilizing your Chicken…multiple times

Posted by on 10:28 am, Jun 2, 2011 in About Your Ingredients | 0 comments

(by ParkerBosley) What are you going to do with that whole chicken?  Set it on the counter for a half hour.  Dry it well.  Heat the oven to 450 degrees.  Place a rack in aroasting pan or cover the bottom of the pan with chopped onions, carrots and celery.  Season the chicken inside and out with salt and pepper.  Lather it with soft butter.  Place the...

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Chef Matthew Anderson’s Cornmeal and Sorghum Suggestions

Posted by on 3:16 pm, Jan 20, 2011 in Recipes | 0 comments

Matt is a great customer of mine. He owns the Umami Asian Kitchen in Chagrin Falls and has dabbled a bit in a variety of different cuisines. Matt spent most of his career in the Washington DC market and South (Richmond, etc). I recently got him some sorghum for a goat cheese ice cream to be prepared for Dinner in the Dark. He was quite excited about sorghum...

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Veal Uses

Posted by on 3:13 pm, Jan 2, 2011 in About Your Ingredients, Recipes | 0 comments

Substite veal for beef in:  meatballs, meatloaf, or hamburgers. Veal Pasta Sauce (Epicurious) 1 to 2 cups chopped tomatoes (either fresh or the ones you canned from the summer CSA  ) 3 tablespoons butter 1 small onion, chopped ½ lb ground veal Salt and black pepper Quarter cup grated italian cheese (parm, asiago) If using fresh tomoatoes, make sure they...

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