{"id":78,"date":"2012-07-11T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2012-07-11T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:24:00","slug":"squashes-and-herbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Squashes and Herbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I made Herbed Summer Squash<\/a>\u00a0using a fresh summer squash, zucchini, thyme and parsley from our garden.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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I\u00a0am always in search of new recipes – I search the Food Network website often (and have found two great recipes in\u00a0two days this past week from there) and I also subscribe to Every Day with Rachael Ray<\/a>, Cooking Light<\/a>, Food & Wine<\/a>\u00a0and my mother in law gives me a gift subscription to Vegetarian Times<\/a>, which is then gifted to Stella Caroline<\/a>\u00a0who has a policy of cooking vegetarian at least once a week.\u00a0 (Admirable; I use the recipes for ideas for sides.)<\/p>\n

I love the magazines because Food & Wine<\/em> and Every Day with Rachael Ray<\/em> often have great suggestions for kitchen gadgets and other gift ideas that I think are perfect for the cooks in my life.\u00a0 I’m not the only cook in my household; J has quickly become a grilling expert.\u00a0 He’s very partial to the show on PBS called Barbeque University with Steve Raichlen<\/em>.\u00a0 The show has given us Bourbon Brined Pork Chops<\/a>,\u00a0Bourbon & Apricot Pork<\/a>\u00a0(the recipe calls for ham but we substituted)\u00a0and Tennessee Pork Loin<\/a>, the latter prompting J to ask if we had a good pepper mill.\u00a0 We didn’t, so he made do with what we had.\u00a0\u00a0The recipe\u00a0was fantastic.\u00a0 Good thing, because he’ll be asked to make it again.\u00a0 If only he had the right tools….<\/p>\n

Fast forward to today – I am flipping through the August issue of Food & Wine<\/em> where NYC chef Nick Anderer cites this pepper mill<\/a>\u00a0as kitchen gear worthy of a splurge.\u00a0 Since I like to encourage J to cook (and keep the heat out of my kitchen in summer), I went over to the website and ordered one for him.\u00a0 The company is based on Nantucket, which seems both odd and fascinating to me as I always think of the island as being purely a tourist destination, but obviously it must have some other industries.\u00a0\u00a0One of\u00a0which is making pepper mills.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Further along in that F & W issue is an article about Sauvignon Blancs, which caught my attention for two reasons – 1.) Sauvignon Blanc is my favorite type of white wine; 2.) the author, Ray Isle, writes, “….But Sauvignon Blanc has always been a love-hate proposition, much like cilantro or beets.”\u00a0 Hee.\u00a0 Read the article<\/a>\u00a0if you don’t believe me.\u00a0 It’s been established already that I like cilantro, the jury’s out on beets (although I’m leaning favorably towards radishes, so who knows) and I love Sauvignon Blanc – in fact, I would recommend it with any of the above-mentioned pork recipes.\u00a0 Or anything, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I made Herbed Summer Squash\u00a0using a fresh summer squash, zucchini, thyme and parsley from our garden.\u00a0 I\u00a0am always in search of new recipes – I search the Food Network website often (and have found two great recipes in\u00a0two days this past week from there) and I also subscribe to Every Day with Rachael Ray, … Continue reading Squashes and Herbs<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sharing_disabled":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39,40,43,24,26,42,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3f8I6-1g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}