Showing posts with label rice salad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rice salad. Show all posts

Monday, November 24, 2008

Cold Day at the Green Market


Clear bright and bitter out.
Shakespeare said it best.

WHEN icicles hang by the wall,
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
To-whit!
To-who!—a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.




A costume suitable for the season.



Windfall Farms had to protect the delicate mesclun salad by rigging up a little plastic edifice...



....where one of the helpers warmed her leg on the stove.



Even the dogs had busted out their winter coats.

When all aloud the wind doe blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw,
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
To-whit!
To-who!—a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.


I always sympathize with Marian.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Barrie Summy and Food


Barrie Summy, author, blogger and mother asked me to participate in a pre-4th July round up of useful recipes.
I'm afraid I'm a day late, and my next career will not be in food styling.
However, this yellow rice is always a good contrast to the red, white and blue - it also has the advantage of being the sort of thing that you just add anything to and it tastes fine!

Yellow Rice Salad

Ingredients.
White rice, boiled with a teaspoonful of turmeric
cooked peas
chopped parsley and chives
chopped red and green peppers
A spoonful of olive oil
A spoonful of balsemic vinegar
salt and pepper to taste

Method:
cook and cool the rice
throw everything else in