Comments on: Dark Days, Week 5 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/ This is a journal, of sorts, of an organic garden in SW Michigan. "Ut sementem feceris, ita metes: non semper erit aestas." Tue, 29 May 2012 17:42:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: El http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7756 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:05:37 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7756 Yep, it’s all in knowing where to look, Ms H! You should look up this lady if you’re really trying to find something: she’s got her finger on the pulse. I miss Crane Dance sausage, though!

]]> By: Hayden http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7753 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:04:21 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7753 ooooh, I scored some of that Bloody Butcher corn for my freezer too! Just had it (polenta) for breakfast today w/ Crane Dance pork sausage and a neighbors’ eggs… sigh….. life is good!

]]> By: El http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7656 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:01:25 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7656 Same to you, Ed! Did you avoid the cookies?

Thanks, Mr Jones. Definitely good to tear into, get one’s iron up.

]]> By: sjones71 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7655 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:58:22 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7655 That is a fine-looking meal.

]]> By: Ed Bruske http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7654 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:49:38 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7654 Happy holidays, El

]]> By: El http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7650 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:53:41 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7650 Hi MC: cut-up potatoes will stick, no matter what kind of oil you use. I use olive oil about 95% of the time; it will smoke if it gets too hot so I just make sure not to go there. So, cast-iron pan, metal spatula/flipper, lid: should work. Let them steam a while before taking the lid off, and THEN is when you can flip them to crisp them up to your liking. bon appetit!

]]> By: mangochild http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7648 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:51:22 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7648 This post made me laugh! The pan fried potato method sounds interesting. What oil would you suggest (since I am vegan) were I to try this?

]]> By: El http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7646 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:51:35 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7646 Aimee, you really wanna go there? (My advice: put on gloves. I think that’d have helped my mood.) But yeah, it’s pretty much a treasure hunt.

Oh Ashley, those are the best kind of meals, when you have nearly nothing. Plus, heck, risotto is almost never bad!

Mike, “garlic mashed” is something I resort to often to get the family to eat all the root veggies. But thanks. It was a decent meal to eat all by my lonesome…

Molly, ditto! Have fun in all that snow…and keep warm too.

Ah Stef. I love cooking. And: the only thing that was a pain was cracking the walnuts. Everything else was easy-peasy. But yeah, freezers. Sigh.

Hiya Adam. No boiling of potatoes. My trick is a well-seasoned cast-iron pan. I simply chunk the potatoes and cook them slooowly over low and covered, then remove the cover and make it hot to get them crispy. And: even mild climates benefit from a greenhouse…even a simple hoop house could keep lettuces going for you all year…but then again I am a greenhouse zealot after all so of course I would say that!

Paula, I could wax on completely about the full wonderfulness of polenta–or you could say cornmeal mush–especially if it’s flattened and grilled. Actually, polenta squares were one of the first baby foods our daughter ate. But yeah, there’s something magical about a spongy cake with lots of mushrooms on top…yummm

pd! it was so tasty I ate it again for lunch!

]]> By: Week 5: Midwest and South « (not so) Urban Hennery http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7643 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:04:44 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7643 [...] Fast Grow the Weeds was looking forward to being home alone to make whatever she wanted.  But, as she says: “A funny thing happened on the way to the freezer.”  She found steak, All Blue potatoes fried up in home-grown goose fat, garlic mashed Triamble squash and a greenhouse salad with foraged walnuts! [...]

]]> By: pd http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7642 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:23:15 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7642 *DROOLING*

]]> By: Paula http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7641 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:47:09 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7641 You remind me of a lovely appetizer I had many years ago at Tra Vigne in the Napa Valley which was sauteed wild mushrooms with fresh herbs on grilled polenta squares – yummy! I can’t remember what I had for dinner, though, so that tells you how good the appetizer was.

Your dinner would go down well as well….

]]> By: Adam http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7640 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:14:50 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7640 Nice-looking dinner.

Do you boil your potatoes before frying ‘em? I haven’t found another way to get that wonderful crispy texture from fried potatoes, but it does take a while.

Someday I’ll have a greenhouse. Seattle is mild enough that I have kale and things like arugula and cress in winter even without one.

My freezer is full of grass-fed beef (almost 1/8 of that steer still) from Olympia, WA.

]]> By: stefaneener http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7639 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:58:31 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7639 Sounds good, but lots of work! Again with the freezer. I have got to get in there and clean it out, but I won’t find artisan corn meal or grass-fed beef!

]]> By: molly http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7638 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:37:09 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7638 that looks amazing.
i love the little gingerbread house header. very sweet.
happy holidays to you and your family!

]]> By: Mike http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/12/20/dark-days-week-5/#comment-7637 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:06:01 +0000 http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/?p=4058#comment-7637 Now if that was to be my last meal I could die a happy man. It sounds scrumptious. I like the sound of garlic mashed squash, I may have to try that.

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