Chef Chat Cafe: September 2007

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Saturday, September 15, 2007

What to do with my garden?

It is now the end of the season here in the north east. Every year I have a garden and at the end of the season I have so many vegetables I can not give them away. I grow tomatoes, squash, and peppers. Please help!!!
Joe

Dear Joe,
We know what you are saying! The best way to help you is to give you few options. With your tomatoes you can boil some water and peal and de-seed them for jarring, or freezing. You can also just make a basic tomato sauce and freeze it so that you can add it to your favorite dishes. For your squash that's tough! Squash is a tough vegetable but it dos not hold very well. You can make a short bread, or muffins, stew them and can, or freeze them, or make a soup and do the same. For your peppers it is the same story. To hold these vegetable for a long time it is best to keep them as basic as possible. The reason is because if you make them for one dish you can not use them for others and you will be tired of just eating that.

If you have any other questions on this please let us know.
Sincerely,
Chef Chat Cafe

Saturday, September 1, 2007

What to do with spinach?

I love spinach! Not as much as Popeye but I try to eat it every week with dinner. I have had it in a salad and sauteed but just with garlic. I see recipes but they look scary. do you have any other ideas?
Donna

Dear Donna,
Here's a question for you. What do you find scary? The only way they get scary is when you add ingredients that you do not like. Some ideas you can get from our recipe page but just to name a few you can stuff chicken with some spinach and your favorite cheese, saute it with you favorite nuts [unsalted of coarse], you can add some citrus fruit and some spice to kick it up a little. As you can see you can be as basic as you want and as dangerous and you feel. But it is up to you. Our best suggestion is to start slow. Add what you like and work off of that.
Let us know if you have any other questions on this.

Sincerely,
Chef Chat Cafe

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