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Ingredient: Little coosa, little summer squash

By Maureen Abood On July 30, 2012 · 8 Comments · In Ingredients, Summer, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
It’s true that the Lebanese love to stuff it—grape leaves, cabbage, coosa. The coosa refers to a particular light green, medium-sized squash that is sweet, tender, and so good. But they’re difficult to find, so we turn also to traditional zucchini and yellow summer squash, which are succulent too. Last week I was strolling down [...]
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Ingredient: Cabbage

By Maureen Abood On July 24, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Ingredients, Vegetables
This was supposed to be a week of brilliant red bell peppers here on Main Street, a week of shiny patent-leather red vegetables and a simple recipe to make and to love. That, however, was not meant to be. Rita over at Bill’s Farm Market saw me hanging around the peppers looking lost amid the [...]
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Ingredient: Raspberries, U-Pick

By Maureen Abood On July 17, 2012 · 11 Comments · In Ingredients, Summer
On the way into town up here on M-119, there was for many years a sign at Emmet Heights road, hand scripted in red paint: Raspberries U-Pick We waited for it every year, and didn’t hesitate to scream it out from the open windows of the big ole custom cruiser wagon as we drove up. [...]
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Ingredient: Cherries

By Maureen Abood On June 26, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Ingredients, Summer
When you come from Michigan, there is so much to say about cherries that you practically come to a halt thinking of where to begin. When you’re Lebanese, cherries are known for their pits as mahleb, ground and used as a flavoring in baking. But right now it’s summer, and we’re focused on fresh fruit [...]
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Ingredient: Radishes

By Maureen Abood On June 19, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Ingredients, Vegetables
Bill’s farm market opened last week (up here we’re just entering a world of bounty now. Takes a while in these parts). I remember last October I asked Bill about some radishes, really wanting to make a particular dish with all of you. Didn’t do so well this year, he said, just don’t have any. [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Potatoes

By Maureen Abood On June 5, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Ingredients, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
One of the great pleasures (and there were many) of a morning at Chicago’s Green City Market was the remarkable display of potatoes at Nichol’s Farms. The colors! The shapes and sizes! My favorites were some little purple potatoes that defied all expectations for tubers, in color and flavor and texture. Up north we are [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Rhubarb

By Maureen Abood On May 30, 2012 · 8 Comments · In Ingredients, Vegetables
I knew rhubarb from a very young age because there was a huge row of it in the yard behind my grandmother Alice Abowd’s house in Fostoria, Ohio. She and my mother cooked the rhubarb into a sauce in the spring and we ate the sweet pink pleasure with spoons out of the saucepan, sitting [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Grape Leaves

By Maureen Abood On May 22, 2012 · 30 Comments · In Ingredients, Vegetables
I’ve got a secret. Or at least I used to have one, and like my mother and my aunts and my grandmothers, I carried it around in my purse until spring, right around this same time every year when bloom was the big event each day and the unfurling of tender, young grape leaves was [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Vanilla Beans

By Maureen Abood On May 9, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Ingredients
I’m a sucker for fragrant flavorings like rose water and orange blossom water. Vanilla is no less of a swoon for me, and I find its creamy, heady scent to be anything but bland. Why must we insist on calling the boring, the plain, vanilla? No more! Without vanilla, pastry would be lost, especially the [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Wheat germ

By Maureen Abood On April 24, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Grains and Legumes, Ingredients
I know what you’re thinking: really, wheat germ? What could she possibly be making that we’ll want to eat that includes wheat germ? She must have confused 2012 with 1972. Why not strawberries or some other gorgeous spring crop? Farmer’s market opens soon, very soon, and I promise that the voluptuous parade will be back [...]
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Ingredient: Little coosa, little summer squash

By Maureen Abood On July 30, 2012 · 8 Comments · In Ingredients, Summer, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
It’s true that the Lebanese love to stuff it—grape leaves, cabbage, coosa. The coosa refers to a particular light green, medium-sized squash that is sweet, tender, and so good. But they’re difficult to find, so we turn also to traditional zucchini and yellow summer squash, which are succulent too. Last week I was strolling down [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Cabbage

By Maureen Abood On July 24, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Ingredients, Vegetables
This was supposed to be a week of brilliant red bell peppers here on Main Street, a week of shiny patent-leather red vegetables and a simple recipe to make and to love. That, however, was not meant to be. Rita over at Bill’s Farm Market saw me hanging around the peppers looking lost amid the [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Raspberries, U-Pick

By Maureen Abood On July 17, 2012 · 11 Comments · In Ingredients, Summer
On the way into town up here on M-119, there was for many years a sign at Emmet Heights road, hand scripted in red paint: Raspberries U-Pick We waited for it every year, and didn’t hesitate to scream it out from the open windows of the big ole custom cruiser wagon as we drove up. [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Cherries

By Maureen Abood On June 26, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Ingredients, Summer
When you come from Michigan, there is so much to say about cherries that you practically come to a halt thinking of where to begin. When you’re Lebanese, cherries are known for their pits as mahleb, ground and used as a flavoring in baking. But right now it’s summer, and we’re focused on fresh fruit [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Radishes

By Maureen Abood On June 19, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Ingredients, Vegetables
Bill’s farm market opened last week (up here we’re just entering a world of bounty now. Takes a while in these parts). I remember last October I asked Bill about some radishes, really wanting to make a particular dish with all of you. Didn’t do so well this year, he said, just don’t have any. [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Potatoes

By Maureen Abood On June 5, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Ingredients, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
One of the great pleasures (and there were many) of a morning at Chicago’s Green City Market was the remarkable display of potatoes at Nichol’s Farms. The colors! The shapes and sizes! My favorites were some little purple potatoes that defied all expectations for tubers, in color and flavor and texture. Up north we are [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Rhubarb

By Maureen Abood On May 30, 2012 · 8 Comments · In Ingredients, Vegetables
I knew rhubarb from a very young age because there was a huge row of it in the yard behind my grandmother Alice Abowd’s house in Fostoria, Ohio. She and my mother cooked the rhubarb into a sauce in the spring and we ate the sweet pink pleasure with spoons out of the saucepan, sitting [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Grape Leaves

By Maureen Abood On May 22, 2012 · 30 Comments · In Ingredients, Vegetables
I’ve got a secret. Or at least I used to have one, and like my mother and my aunts and my grandmothers, I carried it around in my purse until spring, right around this same time every year when bloom was the big event each day and the unfurling of tender, young grape leaves was [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Vanilla Beans

By Maureen Abood On May 9, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Ingredients
I’m a sucker for fragrant flavorings like rose water and orange blossom water. Vanilla is no less of a swoon for me, and I find its creamy, heady scent to be anything but bland. Why must we insist on calling the boring, the plain, vanilla? No more! Without vanilla, pastry would be lost, especially the [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Wheat germ

By Maureen Abood On April 24, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Grains and Legumes, Ingredients
I know what you’re thinking: really, wheat germ? What could she possibly be making that we’ll want to eat that includes wheat germ? She must have confused 2012 with 1972. Why not strawberries or some other gorgeous spring crop? Farmer’s market opens soon, very soon, and I promise that the voluptuous parade will be back [...]
Read More »
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