Recipe-Free Cooking: A No-Fear Guide to Using Your CSA
Cooking without recipes is both subversive and liberating, and it doesn't have to be scary. It lets you cook with the food you have on hand or that is cheap/fresh/ethical/local/[whatever value is important to you].
One qualm people have when signing up for a CSA is that they'll get lots of unfamiliar vegetables that they don't know how to cook (or too much of the same vegetable that they don't like to eat). We'll explore a few simple formulas for embracing the serendipity of the farm share (or your farmers' market) and talk about improvising quick, easy, delicious food with whatever ingredients you have on hand.
To the extent our setup allows, we'll do some hands-on no-fear cooking. If you want, bring a vegetable for us to use.
details
- when: sunday, april 17th, 2011, from 12:45 pm - 2:15 pm
- to attend: Please see the info page for more information on attending any of the workshops at the 2011 Boston Skillshare.
- facilitated by: Teresa Elsey
lesson plan
Quick introduction to recipe-free cooking
Hands-on preparation of some basic dishes (probably: soup, pesto)
Eating and questions and discussion of CSAs/farmers markets/local food
facilitator experience
I had never cooked for myself when I graduated from college. Seven years, five farm shares, ten roommates, and a job editing cookbooks later, I've figured some stuff out. I host a weekly CSA leftovers potluck and blog about our farm share eating experiments at farmsharestories.blogspot.com.
intended audience
Noncooks and beginning cooks; anyone tired of recipes telling them what to do. People big enough to handle sharp knives and hot items.