Sunday, November 6, 2011

The Weekend Homemaker

The chilly, wet days and long, dark nights are calling me back into the kitchen.  Although I have a small winter garden, my desire for crisp salads has been replaced by a hankering for all things warm and savoury.

Last Saturday was the last full-day farmer's market of the season and next Saturday will be the final market of the year.  With my looming lack of access to local veggies, I am debating on reinstating my weekly, mostly-local, food box delivery.  I have a love-hate relationship with the lack of choice involved with food box programs.  I'm forced to try new things, which is good, but I also have a low turnip tolerance.  

In any case, my last trip to the market resulted in a batch of goodies:

Apples, more apples, carrots, almond brioche,
 Red Pepper Jelly and Zucchini Pickles.  

Which resulted in a chicken casserole:


And a huge amount of applesauce:


I also made parmesan coated yam fries, which had no relationship to my market buys, but were delicious nonetheless!

3 comments:

CinnamonOpus said...

Ooh, your chicken casserole looks lovely. Recipe, pretty please?

Melissa said...

It is delicious and I use this recipe regularly to deal with roast chicken leftovers: http://www.marthastewart.com/331834/chicken-and-spinach-casserole

I use whatever veggies I have on hand in place of the spinach. The casserole in the picture contained broccoli, carrots and corn. Yum!

Tova said...

Ok, Parmesan yam fries? Teach me, oh kitchen goddess.