{"id":344,"date":"2009-07-29T17:43:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T22:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2009-07-29T17:43:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T22:43:54","slug":"foodification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Foodification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, Wednesday! Wasn’t it just Sunday? Weren’t there supposed to be other days here somewhere? Hm.<\/p>\n

We’ve joined a CSA<\/a> this year – a subscription plan with weekly boxes of veggies from a local farm. Yum! Each box comes with a certain quota of things that Nick won’t eat. There aren’t many veggies that I won’t eat, so these become lunch. Pretty much anything<\/i> will be tasty, if put in a baking pan, dotted in garlic and parsley (both also from the CSA) and with a drizzle of olive oil, then covered in foil and baked until tender. It takes minimal effort to do this.<\/p>\n

\"Baked<\/p>\n

Half the pan is chard, half the pan is eggplant and tomatoes. <\/p>\n

As an accompaniment, I tried the Cooks Illustrated<\/a> brown rice recipe, posted online here<\/a>. As you might expect considering the source, this also came out perfectly, and again with little effort, and little chance of making a gluey mess if overcooked a bit. <\/p>\n

\"Brown<\/p>\n

Not that rice is particularly photogenic, but I had the camera out. A bit of time on Saturday afternoon, and I had healthy and tasty lunches for the week. <\/p>\n

The last project was much less successful. I was browsing around, looking for recipes for chocolate cake (I had a yen!), and this one<\/a> looked interesting. I should know better than to make a recipe from Hershey’s: too sweet and not enough chocolate flavor. I baked it for the required length of time, after which the cake was springy, cracked on top, and a pick came out dry. And yet it collapsed into a gooey mass (unlike the rice). Edible, but disappointing. <\/p>\n

\"Hershey<\/p>\n

\"Hershey<\/p>\n

Dear Ghirardelli Chocolate Cake Recipe, I will never<\/i> desert you again! (A quick search didn’t turn it up, but I got it off the internet umpteen years ago – preweb! – and will hunt it for you.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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