Tag Archives | Heirloom vegetable cooking

Sopa de Tomate con Albóndigas or Tomato Soup with Meatballs

By on December 11, 2011 in Recipes and Cooking, Recipes We Love

Oaxan Sopa de Tomate con Albóndigas One of my favorite Mexican cookbooks is titled Seasons of My Heart, by Susana Trilling.  Susana was a chef and owner of a restaurant in New York City and also owned a very successful catering business.  She left all of this to pursue her ethnic roots in Mexico around [...]

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Heirloom Corn and Potato Chowder

By on February 2, 2010 in Recipes and Cooking, Recipes We Love

This is a wonderful winter chowder, warming and hearty to chase away the cold winter blues. It uses readily available winter ingredients- potatoes, onions, garlic and carrots, along with some frozen corn. Homegrown frozen sweet corn will be the best, but a good quality frozen sweet corn will work. I use this as a starting [...]

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A Tale of Two Onion Soups

By on January 3, 2010 in Recipes and Cooking, Recipes We Love

It has been cold here, much colder than in the past several years, so I’ve been making some great cold weather dinners. Onion soup is one of the classic cold weather dishes- rich and hearty in flavor and aroma. We bought a cazuela at The Spanish Table in Sante Fe this past September, and I [...]

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3 Great Heirloom Pumpkin Recipes

By on December 1, 2009 in Recipes and Cooking, Recipes We Love

Here’s 3 great heirloom pumpkin recipes that we have used and enjoyed. Too often people think of pumpkin in a strictly Halloween or pumpkin pie way, when there are so many other unique and wonderfully tasty ways to enjoy it. Pumpkin is not only a fall or winter vegetable, but can be frozen or stored [...]

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