Thursday, September 1, 2011

Seasonal Cooking

I went to a couple of farm stands today to supplement what I have coming in from the garden.  We picked up some raw milk, corn, fennel, a head of lettuce, and watermelon.  I was thumbing through cookbooks this afternoon trying to decide what to cook up, but I just couldn't find what I was after.  So I just winged it.  I find myself cooking like this more and more often- using meals had elsewhere or a recipe as a springboard for a new off-the-hip dish.  Today this what went in the pan (the pictures are nothing fancy, just shot straight from the cooking vessel before my battery died):

Carrots, fingerling potatoes, fennel, and sweet onion with 4 oz diced raw bacon, all tossed in olive oil, salt, and pepper, the roasted at 400 degrees .  Topped with fennel fronds and dill:


Corn (3 ears, grilled), 4 oz diced bacon (cooked), 1/2 sweet onion (sauteed in bacon fat), a handful of halved cherry tomatoes, raw cream, basil, salt and pepper......kind of a creamed corn/succotash inspired dish:


Obviously I was in the mood for bacon.  :)

Raspberries, pea greens, green beans, peppers, and potatoes are about all I have coming in from the garden these days.   No complaints there!

6 comments:

Sue said...

You can't go wrong with a dish that includes bacon!
:)

Erin said...

Everything looks great! I don't use recipes either, too limiting and I never have every ingredient anyways LOL

Karen (Back Road Journal) said...

Both dishes look great. I too wing it most of the time. I do measure everything for some of the recipes that I post, where I think it might help.

Patrick's Garden said...

Both look good but the top recipe is to die for. Nice work, chef.

Kelly said...

Thanks Patrick's Garden!

osha eyewash stations said...

Both dishes look great. I do measure everything for some of the recipes, after adding in hot oil in starting of any dish, the test will come so delicious and testy. I do this same thing with every dish.