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That is an incredible CSA! Oysters? My husband would be in heaven.

I made the Asian cole slaw recipe from the Simply Recipes site last week and it was a hit.

I also made the quinoa dish. Brought some to work for friends - everyone loved it.

I broke out the Cruz Bay Grill Rub for the first time this season and grilled up some halibut last night. I really love the CBGR, tastes great on everything! More quinoa again last night too, this time with toasted almonds, currants, apricots, shallots, oranges, cilantro, and parsely. I am really getting into quinoa lately!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28539958@N00/6886231464/" title="halibut 2 by liamsaunt, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7131/6886 ... fb3e91.jpg" width="500" height="370" alt="halibut 2"></a>

That looks fab!

I have quinoa on the menu this week with pecans, cranberries, roasted butternut squash and blue cheese crumbs.

Here is this week's CSA delivery:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28539958@N00/6894559436/" title="csa week 4 by liamsaunt, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7270/6894 ... 235f90.jpg" width="500" height="347" alt="csa week 4"></a>

There are a couple of things that didn't make it into the photo--some parsnips, tatsoi, and pears, and a package of fresh spinach pasta. We had the pasta last night with the spinach, scallops, and some shrimp that I had in the freezer, in a white wine meyer lemon sauce.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28539958@N00/7040656667/" title="shrimp scallop pasta by liamsaunt, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7243/7040 ... ef8c66.jpg" width="500" height="359" alt="shrimp scallop pasta"></a>

I stumbled upon this blog while on Pinterest. Love the idea of taco "cupcakes."

I've used small wontons to make appetizer bites in the past, but never anything larger.

She has a lot of ideas:

http://www.emilybites.com/2011/08/taco-cupcakes.html

I love several of the recipes on her blog. After vacaton, I'm going to try a few!

Thanks for inspiring some quinoa cooking -- I haven't had it since I lived in Bolivia, and it was cooked very differently there (mostly in soups and stews).

Here's to spring in New England -- fiddleheads!!!!



pmk

AAAH fiddleheads!! John and I got food poisoning from them about three years ago (the real deal multi day make you want to die food poisoning, not just an upset stomach). I don't think I could ever eat them again after that. Too bad, because they are so delicious. The local asparagus is in too, I got some in my final csa box yesterday:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28539958@N00/7131476239/" title="final csa by liamsaunt, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8164/7131 ... 27fdbf.jpg" width="500" height="299" alt="final csa"></a>

Here's what I did with the clams, mussels, and parsley from the box. I made the tomato sauce on Sunday so dinner only took 15 minutes:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28539958@N00/7131476353/" title="pasta fra diavolo by liamsaunt, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7140/7131 ... 10cf43.jpg" width="500" height="315" alt="pasta fra diavolo"></a>

That's horrible!

Fiddleheads need to be fully cooked in order to neutralize a toxin.

http://blogs.citypages.com/food/2011/05 ... ds_can.php

pmk

I knew about the toxin, and had cooked them many other times without an issue. I can only guess that I somehow undercooked them, but I really didn't think I had.

I still remember that the dish was delicious and pretty too! I probably posted a picture of it in this thread but I am afraid to go back and look.

liamsaunt wrote:I probably posted a picture of it in this thread but I am afraid to go back and look.

You can look at this instead.



Last night's kung pao!



pmk

I have never tried fiddleheads. What is the taste?

Our neighbor has the most amazing garden (he raises all his own veggies) and dropped off fresh asparagus. It didn't even make it into the house, we sat of the front porch and ate it raw.

PA Girl wrote:I have never tried fiddleheads. What is the taste?

Our neighbor has the most amazing garden (he raises all his own veggies) and dropped off fresh asparagus. It didn't even make it into the house, we sat of the front porch and ate it raw.

Hmm, hard to describe the taste since they're somewhat unique. I guess I'd say that they're nutty, crunchy, and delicately vegetal.....

Definitely worth trying.

pmk

I was really excited to come home from work and find this cookbook waiting for me:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28539958@N00/7167631208/" title="eat with your hands by liamsaunt, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5032/7167 ... d63af4.jpg" width="404" height="500" alt="eat with your hands"></a>

A Fatty Crab/Fatty Cue cookbook! Excuse the crummy cell phone picture. I really loved almost everything I have tried in my three visits to Fatty Crab St. John, so the potential to cook some of the recipes at home is really cool to me. I am going to be doing some heavy experimenting out of this in the next few months, especially since I'll have to skip eating here on our upcoming July trip (I'm traveling with my nephew who has an anaphylactic allergy to crustaceans).

Here is a nicer food photo to make up for the cookbook pic, pasta carbonara from last week. The untraditional addition of peas makes it healthy, right?

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28539958@N00/7167634800/" title="pasta carbonara by liamsaunt, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7071/7167 ... 96f6e3.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="pasta carbonara"></a>