Excerpt from the Market Newsletter originally published on 11 Aug. 2010. View the full newsletter for all the photos and links.
Cooking, and reading about cooking
Let's do something a little different for this week's recipes. I think we all deserve a little time to sit back with a tall glass of lemonade and a good book (see below). See how short the newsletter is this week? That's to help you get to the resting part of your day just that little bit faster (it's nothing at all to do with writer's block, whatever gave you that idea?).
Ginger-honey lemonade
3 cups water
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup minced peeled fresh ginger
1 1/4 cups fresh lemon juice
Boil 1 cup water, honey, sugar, and ginger over high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves, about 5 minutes. Cool and strain into a pitcher. Mix in lemon juice and remaining 2 cups water. Fill pitcher with ice and let stand 5 minutes.
From: Bon Appetit, Aug. 2001
Chocolate lemonade
12-ounce can lemonade concentrate
1/3 cup chocolate syrup
Mix concentrate with water according to directions. Mix lemonade with syrup and serve chilled.
From: 1st Traveler's Choice Internet Cookbook.
Books!
Here are a couple of nice cookbooks from the farmers' market/locovore culture. You don't have to read these, though. Go ahead and sneak in some Terry Pratchett, I won't tell (if you haven't discovered Pratchett yet, you'll want to start [with The Colour of Magic]).
Simply Organic : a cookbook for sustainable, seasonal, and local ingredients / Jesse Ziff Cool. Chronicle Books, 2008. -- Recommended by the Tumwater Timberland Regional Library
How to pick a peach : the search for flavor from farm to table / Russ Parsons. Houghton Mifflin, 2007. -- Also recommended by the Tumwater Timberland Regional Library
