On this week’s show Leslie Land goes red with joy at the thought of hundreds of strawberries, Cari Swanson jumps for joy over those tall fences at the start of horse eventing season, Alex Tuller shows Halibut who’s boss with a little sorrel sauce, Dean Temple reads Richard Newman’s “Coins,” and we have “The List” [...]
(As read and prepared by Alex Tuller for the April 27, 2006 Podcast)
Sorrel is wonderful, just so long as you don’t think that it is a substitute for any other green that looks like it. The only people I know who use sorrel, grow it, but I have been told that it is findable in [...]
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE
Midwestern poet Richard Newman traces the imaginary life of coins as a connection between people. The coins–seemingly of little value–become a ceremonial and communal currency.
Coins
My change: a nickel caked with finger grime;
two nicked quarters not long for this life, worth
more for keeping dead eyes shut than bus fare;
a dime, shining [...]
On this week’s show Leslie Land thinks it’s the best year for forsythia she has ever seen. Cari Swanson spent last week thinking like a horse, this week she tells you how to eat like one. Alex Tuller bakes a sweet ricotta tart that had us going back for seconds – at breakfast! Dean Temple [...]
(As prepared and read by Alex Tuller for the April 20, 2006 Podcast)
Ingredient of the week: Ricotta. I had never worked with ricotta before and when I was at Adams shopping, I saw a tub of the our wonderful local cow cheese maker Sprout Creek Farm’s fresh ricotta and decided it was a must. We [...]
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE
Poet Ruth L. Schwartz writes of the glimpse of possibility, of something sweeter than we already have that comes to us, grows in us. The unrealizable part of it causes bitterness; the other opens outward, the cycle complete. This is both a poem about a tangerine and about more than [...]
On this week’s show Leslie Land sees green and thinks it’s yummy. It’s the first herbs of spring, chervil and cilantro, and they’re on the way. Cari Swanson thinks like a horse, but will she fight or flight, Carola Kittridge makes history alive with her piece on William Johnson and Johnson Hall, Alex Tuller gets [...]
(As read and prepared by Alex Tuller for the April 13, 2006 Podcast)
Chervil
Omelette with fine herbs
2 to 3 eggs (per person)
butter
salt/pepper
several good sized sprigs of chervil
Strip chervil from stems and chop up a bit.
Crack your eggs in a small bowl, add salt, pepper and chervil, and
beat with a fork 30 [...]
On this week’s show Leslie Land helps you plant your own forest, Cari Swanson helps you buy your own horse, Alex Tuller helps you cook your own quail with the final segment in her three part series of mastering the tiny birds, Dean Temple celebrates the opening of trout season with a little Theodore Gordon, [...]
(As discussed and prepared by Alex Tuller for the April 6, 2006 Podcast)
So we’ve broiled and sauteed the little critters and now we grill them. Now, because of the nature of my day, I know that I am not going to be eating these quail until well after I’ve grilled them. So I am going [...]