grilled trout + roasted turnips with ramps + grilled pineapple
Grilled fish is one of the purest pleasures of summer. The immediacy of it all –– fresh and simple –– makes for the very best kind of eating. High on my personal list of skills I’d like to learn is...
View Articlegrilled polenta with zucchini salsa + the homemade flour cookbook giveaway
At a time when so much good stuff is growing, it’s nice to have a copy of Erin Alderson’s The Homemade Flour Cookbook in hand. Erin, the lovely writer and photographer behind Naturally Ella, has...
View Articlelayered salad in a jar {sponsored post}
This post is sponsored by SmartyPants Vitamins. Thank you for supporting Brooklyn Supper’s sponsors! After years of growing summer foods in containers, I’ve been a little taken aback at the amount of...
View Articlegrilled watermelon and donut peach salad with balsamic reduction
Charlottesville is just 25 miles from the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Shenandoah National Park, but it took us more than a year of living here to make our way out there. And even then, we barely made...
View Articlegrilled wild salmon, fennel, and corn with dill butter + yummy supper...
According to the calendar, we’re right in the middle of August, though any sensory assessment would tell you it’s late September. It’s been a mild summer in Charlottesville, with only a handful of days...
View Articlefig and cantaloupe salad with watercress and creamy garlic lime dressing
I decided I’d only worry about the garden through July. After that, I let it all surrender to the squash bugs, at least one groundhog, a few squirrels, possibly a deer, and powdery mildew and blight of...
View Articlecod and corn chowder
Even on the busiest nights, we almost always serve up a family dinner –– in part because we believe in sitting down as a family and in part because it’s just easier to only cook once. It sounds so...
View Articleroasted vegetable salad with garlic dressing and toasted pepitas {a guest...
Let’s make it official, shall we fall? We’re kicking off the beginning of jacket season with a roasted everything salad featuring garden carrots, plus CSA chard, beets, and garlic. My friend Sherrie...
View Articlemeet yer eats farm tour, charlottesville
I’ve come to think of learning about seasonal food from the comfort of a Brooklyn address as akin to being a teenager, when you’re the all-knowing king of the teensiest sliver of actual life. The...
View Articlekale salad with sautéed apples
For the squirrels, it started a month ago. The first day of September, before the acorns fell, panic washed over the animal kingdom. Squirrels were more furtive and skittish then ever. Either a deer or...
View Articlecucumber-tomato salad with garden herbs
Watching the calendar turn over into August has been a huge relief. Summer has me feeling a little lost. Perhaps the chaos outside – tangled vines upon vines and teeming wildlife – can’t help but creep...
View Articlesummer produce guide: what to eat right now (early august)
A weekly summer produce guide to what’s in season right now based on the contents of our CSA share, with CSA and farmer’s market recipes and inspiration. This week, we’re focusing on preserving and...
View Articlesummer produce guide: what to eat right now (mid-august)
A weekly summer produce guide to what’s in season right now based on the contents of our CSA share, with CSA and farmer’s market recipes and ideas. This week’s mid-August inspiration: red peppers,...
View Articlepotato, leek and fennel soup
I’ve had soup on my mind for a while. A few weeks back, I made and froze a batch of rich vegetable stock (made with the first yellow onions of the season from our CSA). Since then, I’ve been plotting....
View Articlesummer produce guide: what to eat right now (late august)
A weekly summer produce guide to what’s in season right now based on the contents of our CSA share, with CSA and farmer’s market recipes and ideas. This week’s late August inspiration: corn, zucchini,...
View Articleroasted zucchini and fennel dip with chipotle tabasco
This post is sponsored by Tabasco. Thanks for supporting the sponsors that help us do what we do! I once believed I didn’t like zucchini and always passed on it, fearing a soggy, blah eating...
View Articlesummer produce guide: what to eat right now (end of august)
A weekly summer produce guide to what’s in season right now based on the contents of our CSA share, with CSA and farmer’s market recipes and ideas. This week’s end of August inspiration: tomatillos,...
View Articlefall produce guide: what to eat right now (mid-september)
A weekly fall produce guide to what’s in season right now based on the contents of our CSA share, with CSA and farmer’s market recipes and ideas. This week’s mid-September inspiration: heirloom apples,...
View Articlefall produce guide: what to eat right now (late september)
A weekly fall produce guide to what’s in season right now based on the contents of our CSA share, with CSA and farmer’s market recipes and ideas. This week’s mid-September inspiration: kuri squash,...
View Articlefall produce guide: what to eat right now (mid-october)
A weekly fall produce guide to what’s in season right now based on the contents of our CSA share, with CSA and farmer’s market recipes and ideas. This week’s mid-October inspiration: Asian pears, sage,...
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