I Will Make Krumkakke No More Forever

Or:  I don’t care how many you said you wanted.   192 is enough for anybody!   

Pictured:  the last of the 16 dozen krumkakke I made last week.

Grandma Dallelie’s Krumkakke Recipe

6 eggs, room temperature 1 C. sugar 1 C. melted butter 1 tsp. whipping cream 1 C. flour 1 tsp. (rounded) ground cardamom

Beat [...]

Swedish cucumber salad a la Farmor Tild

We’ve been getting English cucumbers in our CSA box the past couple of weeks, and they are ideal for this recipe.  Our CSA also supplied the fresh dill and the shallots.

This cucumber salad was always part of Sunday dinners at Grandma Tild’s house during the summer. I couldn’t find one recipe that was exactly [...]

Red Russian Kale chips

OK, here’s a picture of this week’s batch of kale chips, made with the Red Russian Kale we got in our CSA box.

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Probably the first thing you’re noticing about Red Russian kale is that it’s not red.  [Well, the stems are, but for kale chips you cut away [...]

In which my kid’s friends are dazzled by… kale chips!

Tildified™  for your enjoyment,  based on this Tot brand vegetables crate label

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My sons are no longer tots (unless 6’2″  young adults qualify for tot-hood) but they do indeed love leafy greens, especially when those leafy greens are transformed [by a little olive oil  &  sea salt  & roasting in an oven] into crispy [...]

CAMC Week 1: Red Russian kale, turnip chips, Zevia mojitos

After 3 consecutive years of waiting too long before trying to sign up with a CSA and then finding all the shares sold out, this year I took no chances. There was still snow on the ground here in late March when I signed on with Rock Spring Farm for a full summer vegetable [...]

Cooking Away My CSA Challenge: Count me in!

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Thought I’d take a shot at designing a logo for the fantastic group I just joined, the

Cooking Away My CSA Challenge

Greatest idea ever. And just in time! Friday afternoon I picked up our first weekly CSA box of veggies, and now [...]

Ines Rosales Tortas de Aceite

OMG! — as you crazy kids are always saying these days — I just discovered the most delicious, crunchy, sweet, biscuit-cookie thingies I’ve ever had in my life!

They are called Ines Rosales Tortas de Aceite and they are made in Spain;  in a little town near Sevilla to be exact.  The tortas I got [...]