Showing posts with label introduction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label introduction. Show all posts

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Oh, I forgot to mention...


I recently joined the local Slow Food chapter and the local Community Supported Agriculture farm subscription service which delivers a box of random vegetables each week. That box to the left is actually twice what I'll get each week, but you get the idea. Since this is Miami, they've warned that there's usually something unusual (at least for the average American supermarket-dweller.)

The weekly deliveries haven't started yet, but they've done some summer specials so last week I ended up with garlic chives, lemon grass, quinces and half of a squash of some sort. Also, some honey and a whole tilapia. That was the first time I ever scaled and gutted a fish. Easier than I expected, but then everyone says it's pretty easy so I don't know where I got the impression that it wasn't. So the garlic chives got stuffed into the fish, the lemon grass flavored a Vietnamese drunken shrimp recipe, and the squash got stuffed with ground turkey and baked which gave me a chance to use the Gateway to the North seasoning from Spice House which has maple syrup crystals in it. (The leftovers I mashed which I think I'll make croquettes out of.) The quinces: I still haven't a clue.

My point is that it'll be a challenge each week to figure out what to do with whatever arrives before it rots. And you get to watch.

I'll also post reviews of the various Slow Food stuff I do. There's usually a dinner or event every month or two.

That should alleviate the tedium of an all-ice-cream posting schedule.

Hello World

Welcome to Tinkering with Dinner, my new blog. I don't suppose I'll get many readers who don't know me, but if you have just happened by I should introduce myself. I am a science librarian by trade and a foodie by nature. Or maybe a chowhound. I get the sense that there is some sort of philosophical struggle going on in the food world between the sub-groups laying claim to those two names, but I really don't know anything about it. Personally, I'm serious about eating and cooking good food and I enjoy talking about it, too.

I've poked around in the food blog world a bit but I haven't come across any that match my experimental approach to cooking. I take different recipes and mix and match pieces. I adjust ingredients and techniques to fit what I have on hand and what I feel like bothering with. And I try again with variations if something doesn't quite work out. That's the sort of thing I'll mostly be posting about here.

I'm starting with a bit of a backlog. For the last couple of months I've been making a new flavor of ice cream each week, bringing it in to work and sending out an e-mail talking about what I've done and how it turned out. I'm going to go back and revisit those here along with whatever I come up with in the present. Let's see how it goes.