Q had told us all so many times that she had a tiny apartment and we wouldn’t be able to cook in her small space…  So it was particularly wonderful to arrive and find not only her wide smile but a very spacious, lovely home with a huge table to

Para nuestra 13va. sesión, nos reunimos en casa de CL en Highland Park. En esta ocasión tuvimos un grupo pequeño, pero muy participativo de cocineras. Como en cada sesion, es una sorpresa abrir la caja de Tomato Mountain para descubrir que contiene y poder decider que cocinar y a pesar

This session we had a blast at Li’s house. The box from Tomato Mountain Farm had roasted tomato sauce, yellow onions, carrots, beets, radishes, and frozen butternut squash. Although the box had almost the same things as last session, everyone was inspired with new ideas. La had the great idea

For our 11th Eating Locally session, we reunited again at A’s house to cook with what we received from Tomato Mountain Farm. Due to the cold weather, the boxes have had fewer things: carrots, onions, roasted tomatoes, shallots and frozen butternut squash. It wasn’t easy to decide what we were

This session started inauspiciously but quickly trended upwards and ended up being a really great experience.  The host’s address was wrong in our system and she didn’t notice it when the email went out with details so we had a bit of a scramble to contact people at the last

Field Trip! One way to keep the interest up when cooking with limited mid-winter veggies is to add radically different flavors and seasonings. Several of us had been to a massive Korean supermarket nearby but, confronted with so many unfamiliar ingredients, and very wide choices (a hundred kinds of kimchee!)

We have to say the highlight of this session was sweet tamales.  Interesting how something that included nothing from the CSA box can be said to be seasonal.  But if you look at the recipe below you will see that every ingredient is something with a long shelf life, something

I decided to supplement the box a little bit but keep to the spirit of seasonally appropriate foods.  So I added a bag of red potatoes, heads of garlic and two dozen eggs to the two boxes of produce from Tomato Mountain.  I was so glad I did as these