Beautiful beds of Allium giganteum or Giant Allium, that is. This morning in the Public Garden, Penny noticed the buds on these members of the onion family beginning to open.
Soon they will be the subject of thousands of photographs. (Here's one that Penny took a few years ago.)
Get out there and enjoy them while you can.
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Once one of us is on the mend from a cold and ready to move on from chicken soup, I like to make a big pot of my Ground Turkey Stew. It's hot, filling, comforting, and gets better after a day in the refrigerator.
As with most stews, the exact quantities are not set in stone, you can double or triple the recipe to feed a crowd. You can add other vegetables if you like. You can leave out anything you don't like.
It starts with one package of ground turkey – whatever type you like. For my version, you'll also need Bell's Poultry Seasoning, salt, pepper, olive oil, 1 medium onion, 3 stalks of celery, 4 medium potatoes, 4 medium carrots, 14 ozs. of low sodium chicken stock, frozen peas, parsley, and 2 scallions.
Saute the chopped celery and onion in olive oil in a big pan.
Remove the onion and celery and brown the turkey in the same pan adding more olive oil if your turkey is very lean. Season the meat with 1.5 teaspoons of poultry seasoning, salt, and pepper. Break up the turkey into bite size pieces. (I often use a potato masher to break up ground meat like this.)
Peel and slice the carrots and potatoes into bite-size pieces. If I use red potatoes, I scrub them and leave the peels in place.
Return the celery and onion mix to the pan, add the chicken stock, carrots, and potatoes.
Cook until the potatoes are done. Adjust the seasoning with another 1.5 teaspoons of poultry seasoning (or more if you like) plus salt and pepper.
Add frozen peas and stir in until thawed and warm.
At this point, I usually pick out and mash a few pieces of potato and stir them into the pan to thicken the broth.
Add sliced scallion and chopped parsley as a final fresh layer of flavor.
Let us know if you try this dish, and tell us how you adapted it to make it your own.
Once one of us is on the mend from a cold and ready to move on from chicken soup, I like to make a big pot of my Ground Turkey Stew. It's hot, filling, comforting, and gets better after a day in the refrigerator.
As with most stews, the exact quantities are not set in stone, you can double or triple the recipe to feed a crowd. You can add other vegetables if you like. You can leave out anything you don't like.
It starts with one package of ground turkey – whatever type you like. For my version, you'll also need Bell's Poultry Seasoning, salt, pepper, olive oil, 1 medium onion, 3 stalks of celery, 4 medium potatoes, 4 medium carrots, 14 ozs. of low sodium chicken stock, frozen peas, parsley, and 2 scallions.
Saute the chopped celery and onion in olive oil in a big pan.
Remove the onion and celery and brown the turkey in the same pan adding more olive oil if your turkey is very lean. Season the meat with 1.5 teaspoons of poultry seasoning, salt, and pepper. Break up the turkey into bite size pieces. (I often use a potato masher to break up ground meat like this.)
Peel and slice the carrots and potatoes into bite-size pieces. If I use red potatoes, I scrub them and leave the peels in place.
Return the celery and onion mix to the pan, add the chicken stock, carrots, and potatoes.
Cook until the potatoes are done. Adjust the seasoning with another 1.5 teaspoons of poultry seasoning (or more if you like) plus salt and pepper.
Add frozen peas and stir in until thawed and warm.
At this point, I usually pick out and mash a few pieces of potato and stir them into the pan to thicken the broth.
Add sliced scallion and chopped parsley as a final fresh layer of flavor.
Let us know if you try this dish, and tell us how you adapted it to make it your own.
Once one of us is on the mend from a cold and ready to move on from chicken soup, I like to make a big pot of my Ground Turkey Stew. It's hot, filling, comforting, and gets better after a day in the refrigerator.
As with most stews, the exact quantities are not set in stone, you can double or triple the recipe to feed a crowd. You can add other vegetables if you like. You can leave out anything you don't like.
It starts with one package of ground turkey – whatever type you like. For my version, you'll also need Bell's Poultry Seasoning, salt, pepper, olive oil, 1 medium onion, 3 stalks of celery, 4 medium potatoes, 4 medium carrots, 14 ozs. of low sodium chicken stock, frozen peas, parsley, and 2 scallions.
Saute the chopped celery and onion in olive oil in a big pan.
Remove the onion and celery and brown the turkey in the same pan adding more olive oil if your turkey is very lean. Season the meat with 1.5 teaspoons of poultry seasoning, salt, and pepper. Break up the turkey into bite size pieces. (I often use a potato masher to break up ground meat like this.)
Peel and slice the carrots and potatoes into bite-size pieces. If I use red potatoes, I scrub them and leave the peels in place.
Return the celery and onion mix to the pan, add the chicken stock, carrots, and potatoes.
Cook until the potatoes are done. Adjust the seasoning with another 1.5 teaspoons of poultry seasoning (or more if you like) plus salt and pepper.
Add frozen peas and stir in until thawed and warm.
At this point, I usually pick out and mash a few pieces of potato and stir them into the pan to thicken the broth.
Add sliced scallion and chopped parsley as a final fresh layer of flavor.
Let us know if you try this dish, and tell us how you adapted it to make it your own.
Thanks to David Leite, author of The New Portuguese Table, I don't take half an hour to sauté onions and garlic each time I start a dish that calls for that as part of its base.
He even includes a recipe for them in his book. And thanks to this brilliant tip, I follow his guidance and have cook's gold waiting for me in the refrigerator later in the week.
Mine go into a mason jar ready to whip up into a hash, pasta sauce, shepherd's pie, sausage and peppers, steak with mushrooms and onions, and so on.
I smile just knowing they are sitting there waiting for me to create something delicious.
By the way, the rest of The New Portuguese Table is equally wonderful and certainly a book I recommend adding to your collection.
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Thanks to David Leite, author of The New Portuguese Table, I don't take half an hour to sauté onions and garlic each time I start a dish that calls for that as part of its base.
He even includes a recipe for them in his book. And thanks to this brilliant tip, I follow his guidance and have cook's gold waiting for me in the refrigerator later in the week.
Mine go into a mason jar ready to whip up into a hash, pasta sauce, shepherd's pie, sausage and peppers, steak with mushrooms and onions, and so on.
I smile just knowing they are sitting there waiting for me to create something delicious.
By the way, the rest of The New Portuguese Table is equally wonderful and certainly a book I recommend adding to your collection.
Do you have an Amazon Gift Certificate to use? Or do you need to buy one for a gift? Remember to click over to Amazon from here to support this site!
Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.
Thanks to David Leite, author of The New Portuguese Table, I don't take half an hour to sauté onions and garlic each time I start a dish that calls for that as part of its base.
He even includes a recipe for them in his book. And thanks to this brilliant tip, I follow his guidance and have cook's gold waiting for me in the refrigerator later in the week.
Mine go into a mason jar ready to whip up into a hash, pasta sauce, shepherd's pie, sausage and peppers, steak with mushrooms and onions, and so on.
I smile just knowing they are sitting there waiting for me to create something delicious.
By the way, the rest of The New Portuguese Table is equally wonderful and certainly a book I recommend adding to your collection.
Do you have an Amazon Gift Certificate to use? Or do you need to buy one for a gift? Remember to click over to Amazon from here to support this site!
Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.
Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.
Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.
Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.