Food notes, and a knife
Sep. 13th, 2005 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI went to the farmer's market, and failed only one resist roll: I got apples. Two kinds of apples, actually, both Ginger Gold and Honey Crisp. I have to figure out when the annual apple-picking excursion will be!
I also saw something at the farmer's market I'd never seen before, labeled "huitlacoche/corn smut". It looked like large, oddly shaped, off colored garlic cloves, but turns out to be a fungus, sometimes also called corn mushroom or corn truffle. Here's a photo on the cob; what I saw at the market was already off the cob. Interestingly, it's a delicacy in Mexico, and considered a blight in the US (mostly). I suspect that will change, especially if farmers can get what was being charged today: $12/lb.
For (my) future reference, the farm school that's at the Tuesday market has half dozens of eggs. The ones I peeked at were five brown and one green egg. Next week if I need eggs...
Last week's find at the Butcherie was rice wrappers, the large circular ones used for spring rolls (the uncooked kind). I got them just because; now I need to find a spring roll recipe. Anyone have a favorite? (One with no cilantro would be ideal, but I can substitute if necessary.)
Meandering around online I found a recipe for acorn bread. It seems a nuisance to make acorn flour, but something that would be cool to do once, anyway. And the uses for the water the tannins leach out into seem quite varied, from a hair rinse to helping calm poison ivy.
From InfiniteHotel via TCB: a knife manufacturer in western MA. Next time I head west, I should check it out.
I also saw something at the farmer's market I'd never seen before, labeled "huitlacoche/corn smut". It looked like large, oddly shaped, off colored garlic cloves, but turns out to be a fungus, sometimes also called corn mushroom or corn truffle. Here's a photo on the cob; what I saw at the market was already off the cob. Interestingly, it's a delicacy in Mexico, and considered a blight in the US (mostly). I suspect that will change, especially if farmers can get what was being charged today: $12/lb.
For (my) future reference, the farm school that's at the Tuesday market has half dozens of eggs. The ones I peeked at were five brown and one green egg. Next week if I need eggs...
Last week's find at the Butcherie was rice wrappers, the large circular ones used for spring rolls (the uncooked kind). I got them just because; now I need to find a spring roll recipe. Anyone have a favorite? (One with no cilantro would be ideal, but I can substitute if necessary.)
Meandering around online I found a recipe for acorn bread. It seems a nuisance to make acorn flour, but something that would be cool to do once, anyway. And the uses for the water the tannins leach out into seem quite varied, from a hair rinse to helping calm poison ivy.
From InfiniteHotel via TCB: a knife manufacturer in western MA. Next time I head west, I should check it out.