Archive of posts from July 2010

    Chocolate-Nut Zucchini Bread

    2010-07-31

    Not only are we growing our own zucchini, but our CSA is providing us with a few each week as well. So, along with everyone else who grows zucchini this time of year, I went looking for bread recipes. I liked this one from Fine Cooking and tried making a double batch of it, wi...

    Sour Stoneberry Jam with Beaujolais

    2010-07-27

    We went raspberry picking on Sunday at Hutchinson Farm in Burlington. It’s late in the season, but we still managed to harvest enough to eat out of hand and make a batch of jam. In the evening, I followed Harold McGee’s advice for prolonging the life of berries and gave them a...

    Cherry Rose Ice Cream

    2010-07-20

    We’ve been disappointed with much of the local cherries we’ve purchased from green grocers this year. The clear plastic tubs contain watery, flavourless dark cherries that are a far cry from a decent, firm-fleshed specimen. After I saw this recipe on Tartelette, I thought it w...

    Black Forest Brownies with Mocha Ganache

    2010-07-16

    Continuing with ways to use up some not so nice cherries, I found this recipe and was intrigued by the idea of putting chopped up fruit in a brownie. My preference is for a style of brownie that is somewhere in the middle on the fudgey-cakey spectrum. I made a double batch of ...