Category Archives: Recipes

Many a moon ago I checked out of the library this lovely Roasting cookbook by Barbara Kafka and learned the secret of ‘high roasting’ and apply it often. There is a time and a place for slow-low-roasting (any big pork roast prefers it, our Roast Chicken recipe starts on high but then goes pretty low,Continue reading “Recipe Thursday: Roasted Veg Farro Salad”

I always tell Josh that when he’s gone (because we took an internet test once and it says I will outlive him by about 10 years after we’re 70, and you know that’s got to be true) that I am going to move down to Mississippi, get a nice Muumuu (ok, who else is excitedContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Fish Fry”

I joined a book club a few years ago. I knew better but I dream about compatriots that share the same sort of ideas I do and want to get together and talk about them. I was uncertain about this group – though they were all very nice and funny and smart, we were justContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Lemon Kale Salad”

What do they say – that breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Most days at Rock Bottom breakfast is a banana and a piece of sourdough toast, or some homemade yogurt with a little maple or honey on top and an apple – and coffee (though I have switched to black teaContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Breakfast Fried Rice”

Putting up was definitely a thing when I was little. Bushels of tomatoes became canned tomatoes and tomato sauce (we weren’t sophisticated enough to eat salsa or make pizza sauce – pizza, in fact, was really something we just had at school, in squares, with just cheese. We did not have pizza places and didContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Picnic!”

Translated: Rhubarb Cake!! But it’s more exciting if you take it into consideration of the German ‘kuchen’ time, which is essentially high tea or afternoon cake and coffee. Many years ago now, my lovely friend Vanessa took me as her date to a wedding in Germany for her International Exchange friend that she met inContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Rhabarberkuchen”

A few years ago, when I was in NYC for skool, I desperately wanted to go to The Spotted Pig restaurant because I heard about these gnudi. Sadly, I didn’t make it. But I have the recipe (mwa ha ha) and have been dying to try it out. Thanks to some inspiration to whip upContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Spring Gnudi”

I freaking love plantains. All of them, in any way, any time. However, I really only make them one or two ways; either a mofungo or sweet-ripe & smashed fried (yes, that’s one thing). The thing about plantains is – they are a pain when they are green (like for mofungo) – peeling is aContinue reading “Thursday Recipe: Black Beans & Plantains”

There’s a birthday at Rock Bottom Homestead today! Mine!! Yay Me! What is planned? Well, it’s a lovely (though cool) day – we have more peas to get in (they’ve already been soaked in coffee so they need to go in pronto) and the planting onions are in the fridge so they need to goContinue reading “Birthday Dinner: Tuna Shish Kabob”