What to do when you have accumulated 3-6 bunches of carrots? Make carrot soup with orange juice and zest. This is a recipe I got from a family Chef and it is really clean and healthy. We stirred in a bunch of dill and a spoonful of sour cream instead of cilantro to garnish. Have you ever had fresh squeezed carrot, orange, and ginger juice? OK, next time let’s try this with ginger as an addition.
Carrot Soup Recipe
This is a Bon Appetit recipe from this months magazine. It is a really healthy dish and makes a nice left over lunch. The healthy, veggie, yogi types will tell you that this is their type of food! Look at their bodies, trust them!
CSA Food Box Ingredients Used:
Curried Red Lentil, Kohlrabi, and Couscous Salad Recipe
This salad recipe is a restaurant recreation based on a salad that I had at Big Sur Bakery and Restaurant in June. It was awesome! This is definitely one of my favorite recipes of the summer, so far. I looked in the Big Sur Bakery Cookbook and realized that the peach and mache salad was based on the Field Greens Salad with Pecans, Croutons, and Ranch Dressing recipe + garlic in the dressing, peaches in the salad, and Feta cheese but no croutons.
Peach, Feta, & Mache Salad with Creamy Garlic (Ranch) Dressing
Serves 10
Saturday & Sunday – July 10 & 11, 2010 • This weekend, today! Odori Dancing to still happen tonight, Sunday @ 6pm in SJ Japantown.
The Obon Festival in Japantown, San Jose is run by about four thousand volunteers from the community and the San Jose Buddhist Temple. The Obon festival is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the departed (deceased) spirits of one’s ancestors. The volunteers work for days preparing the food such as:
What I liked about this festival was that the food was affordable and in-tune with the culture. We walked around sampling many different tasty bites. I saw lots of folks stopping by and buying large quantities of chicken teriyaki and beef teriyaki to take home for their families. The take-out told me that the food is known for being good and that people have made it a tradition to stop by and pick it up each year. After the lunchtime rush, the lines got shorter and there were plenty of places to sit and enjoy your food both inside and outside. Out in the sun we saw Taiko drummers perform and we could have even taped down our blanket to save a spot for the Bon Odori dancing that started later in the evening.
Get there early and get a parking spot. Some lots were $2 for all day. Otherwise you will drive around for an extended period to find a decent place to park.
More information from past: Yelpers
More San Jose Obon Festival Photographs: Flickr
While staying in Los Feliz at a friends for the 4th of July weekend, we hopped about eating famous chicken and waffles, sipping on gourmet coffee, and nibbling on specialty cheeses. A real hit was Gaam Restaurant & Lounge in Koreatown, LA.
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What you will need for your Cast Iron Dessert Crisp with any fruit combination:
Various Seasonal Fruit Combinations:
Blueberry-Nectarine Crisp Recipe
Recipe from Vegetarian Fresh Food Fast Cookbook
Over the 4th we were at a party in Malibu and I was offered a Margarita. I noticed there was a half of a grapefruit sitting beside the blender. I asked the woman who created it about the grapefruit and she said she was a mixologist and had came up with this Grapefruit Margarita recipe. It was really refreshing and not too sweet, thanks to the grapefruit. You could drink many of them and never taste the alcohol or the overly sweet flavors … dangerous!
Grapefruit Margarita Recipe
Put it all in the blender and go to town!
We get greens every single week. So this week, it was time to find another creative way to ingest more greens. I googled, “Creative Kale Recipe” and an interesting one came up from a blog that tried to recreate a dish from M Cafe in Beverly Hills. Folks started commenting on the blog post that they love this signature dish from M Cafe. So I then looked for the actual recipe and found a video online about how to make it as well as the restaurant recipe from M Cafe. This is a very interesting, delicious, and unique greens recipe!
CSA Food Box Ingredient: Red Russian Kale or just Kale
Kale with Spicy Peanut Dressing Recipe from M Cafe