On Monday we had intended to have carnitas according to Matthew Amster-Burton’s Spilled Milk recipe. But G. had a lot of chores and he didn’t get it on in time. His backup plan was beans with the same seasonings, and when I got home I got inspired to [...]]]> Apparently I post once a week now.

On Monday we had intended to have carnitas according to Matthew Amster-Burton’s Spilled Milk recipe. But G. had a lot of chores and he didn’t get it on in time. His backup plan was beans with the same seasonings, and when I got home I got inspired to huck in some other stuff.

To the storebought organic canned beans, I added some sliced Laughing Crow sweet potatoes (the skinny kind, proper sweet potatoes); a couple of diced homegrown carrots; a chunk of LC/hg garlic as usual; and a pinch of homegrown cayenne powder.

Served on storebought housemade tortillas with homemade homegrown goat queso fresco and some chopped Laughing Crow cabbage.

(from desjardin’s tumblr — I don’t really understand tumblr — I hope I didn’t break the sharing/replying/whatever thing)

Kitsap ground beef, Laughing Crow onion, Laughing Crow cabbage home-fermented into sauerkraut, etc. Homemade spaetzle with organic flour, homegrown eggs, homegrown milk.

Served also with homegrown kale sautéed with homegrown/Laughing Crow garlic and a bit of Island-grown home-smoked ham for seasoning.

Then we walked up the hill to the movie [...]]]> G. met me in Seattle and we had happy hour at Lecosho. We had: pork terrine served with mustard and pickled radishes and carrots; sardine tartine, with grilled sardines on toasted bread; spaetzle with brown butter; house-made sausage served with lentils; braised winter greens with garlic.

Then we walked up the hill to the movie theater and watched the 2011 version of The Thing. It was more enjoyable than we expected and better than it had any right to be, really. Also, totally unexpected female protagonist!