Tagan's Kitchen

Spring Gardening

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:30:00 +0000

Aside from my sugar snap peas, some garlic and some lettuce seeds, my garden is still waiting for seeds and plants. I made the mistake of planting some little cucumber seedlings a week or so ago (see...

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Pie Party 2013 in Pictures

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:55:00 +0000

What a great night! Fabulous folks, tons of pie, and my friend James, the self proclaimed "Pie Virgin" was converted to the joys of pie! It has taken me a little while to post the pictures, my...

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Rainbow Parfaits

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:28:00 +0000

April is birthday land in my house. My husband, daughter, son and mother all have b-days this month. Lucky for me, while my little girl loves birthdays, she is not so into cake, so for her...

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Passover 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:43:00 +0000

This year my mother is doing most of the passover cooking. My grandma is saying the soup pot is too heavy for her, so I'm on matzo ball soup duty, and while I usually jockey for as much space as...

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Get Ready, Get Set....Pie Party 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Time to get ready for another Pie Party. That's right, all pie, all night. Savory, sweet, traditional or inventive, a bunch of friends will be arriving later today each with a pie in hand and we will...

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Orange Pepper Almonds

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:50:00 +0000

Candied nuts have got to be one of the most addictive foods around. Crunchy, a little sweet, a little salty and a peppery kick for fun. These are unbelievably simple to make and take 15 minutes start...

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Spice Roasted Apple with Honey Almond Oats

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 04:02:00 +0000

A bag of apples or pears from Bishops Orchards* is just about the most inspiring thing I can have in my kitchen. From October till they disappear around February or March I keep these apples cooking...

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Sweet Potato Fries

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:42:00 +0000

I love sweet potatoes, they're like nature candy. I remember in high school bringing baked sweet potatoes to school for lunch (split with a little butter and a pinch of salt). I'm sure I got funny...

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Short Ribs: Happy New Year & Happy Braising!

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:03:00 +0000

Short Ribs seared until dark brown, waiting to be slow cooked in tomato and citrus. Picture this: me as a young chef, a vegetarian no less, the counter of a catering company in Boston spread...

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Honeycomb Candy

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:26:00 +0000

I know this looks kind of crazy, and not entirely like food at all, but it is sooooooo delicious. Honeycomb candy is the name I know it by. It's a sweet nutty toffee that's light, crispy and melts in...

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Delicata - The Best Winter Squash

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:02:00 +0000

Aside from being absolutely delicious, my favorite winter squash (the delicata variety, pictured on the left above) stand out among all winter varieties because you do not have to peel them! The skin...

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Thanksgiving Food Musings and a Beautiful Bird

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:01:00 +0000

I have been hosting Thanksgiving for the past few years, which means that I have been in charge of the Turkey. Each year I have tried a different type of bird, and a few different cooking techniques,...

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Pie Ninjas

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:09:00 +0000

It's that time of year again...time to think about PIE. Year two of my "How to be a Pie Ninja" class at Common Ground School. What a great group of folks turned out for my class this year! We...

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New Haven Food Summit 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:18:00 +0000

Friday October 12, 2012 was the first ever New Haven Food Summit! City and community leaders gathered at City Hall to dig into the New Haven Food Action Plan developed by the New Haven Food...

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Food Justice

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:00:00 +0000

For many years when someone asked me "what do you do?" I had a fairly straightforward answer "I'm a chef". When the conversation ventured into "what kind of food do you cook?" or "what's your...

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Gloden Raspberry Jam

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 03:37:00 +0000

Sunday morning / 9:15am / me and my 4 year-old daughter at Bishops Orchards / 20 minutes away from our home in the city of New Haven / sneaking past the dozens of rows of raspberries to the one lane...

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Grilled Fish Slidders with Fennel Slaw

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:30:00 +0000

This season my mother purchased a share at Massaro Farm, a new local CSA farm that providess more than 100 families with weekly supplies of organic produce and donates thousands of pounds of food to...

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Raw Summer Cereal

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:44:00 +0000

Last summer I posted this delicious and very healthy recipe for a raw/live cereal. With blueberries and peaches in season right now, this is the perfect time to make this! The oat groats, pumpkin...

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Foraging Cherries in the City

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:56:00 +0000

Have you ever noticed something resembling fruit on the sidewalk, falling from a near-by tree and wondered if it was edible? Well recently, due to my love of food and my tight budget, I realized that...

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Kale Crazy

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:53:00 +0000

Among the healthy/ local food focused community there seems to be a bit of a recent infatuation with kale: cooked, raw or turned into chips. It's a leafy green, and is very green, so therefore really...

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Blistered Smoked Potatoes

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 03:18:00 +0000

I finally got a grill. Six years ago I got a backyard, but it took me a little while to fill in this important component: a place to cook over a fire. My family opted for a basic fire pit with...

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Strawberry Jam from the Archives

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 03:43:00 +0000

This Jam truly was the best I have ever had....so I must re-post it while the berries are still in season. The recipe uses green strawberries, some lemon rind and seeds for pectin...so you don't...

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Farmers' Lemonade - Great for Strawberry Season

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:41:00 +0000

The idea of adding cream to lemonade is a seriously bizarre concept I know. But this strawberry lemonade is delicious, unusual, and refreshing, a real special treat, and a great use of strawberries...

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Strawberry Season Has Arrived!

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:57:00 +0000

The warm weather has brought the first berries of the season a little early this year and I can't wait to get out picking. The few rows of strawberries in my backyard are still mostly green, and I'm...

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Shakshuka

noreply@blogger.com (Tagan Engel) — Tue, 08 May 2012 09:37:00 +0000

photo credit: Shiksa in the Kitchen I have to tell you that this lovely picture is not from my kitchen, but borrowed from a fellow food blogger. My photo(see below), taken in bad light as I was...

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