Recipe: Gaea's Fennel and Garbanzo Bean Stew with Yogurt-Basil Biscuits

Fennel and Garbanzo Bean Stew

We modified the original recipe slightly, just so we could use what we had on hand. It was very spicy and really tasty (again, we don't like black licorice, which is what fennel tastes like). Phil wondered if it might taste better a little less spicy, but I doubt it. The biscuits are just a basic buttermilk drop biscuit recipe with a huge bunch of basil sliced and added. Yum. The basil flavor carries through really nicely when they're eaten cold, without butter or anything. From the CSA: green beans, fennel, onions, basil.

( The recipe )

CSA Delivery #14

Click through to see what's what. Contents: Green Beans, Yellow Onions, Italian Garlic, Yellow Summer Squash, Scallopini Squash, Arugula, Carrots, Butterscotch Melon, Cilantro, Green Savoy Cabbage, Yukina Savoy, Basil. Cilantro not pictured because I *hates* it and gave it all to our share partner. The cabbage was strangely chewy this time around, by which I mean you could not chew through a piece of it raw. Scallopini squash is really, really delicious. Butterscotch melon is a lot like a tiny watermelon, but it has a slightly different, sweeter flavor.

( What I Made )

Details of the Day

• 06:34 Mornings are getting colder and darker. Autumn is a-coomin' in.
• 09:02 Whenever financial analysts talk about IndyMac? I get a craving for Mac 'n Cheese.
• 10:31 Phil working 2nd shift = I'm totally picking up eggrolls and white wine on my way home for a decadent dinner.
• 10:32 Also a trip down Nostalgia Lane, because I used to do that occasionally for lunch when living near Loring Park.
• 10:33 Beginning to suspect coworker sent out an email saying, "Bring in all your big jobs while I'm gone!"
• 13:55 I suspect I blog about food too much: ping.fm/Zz7Qp
• 14:17 ++Leftover salad & fruit for the pillaging.
• 16:02 Work done, on to new challenges: transporting egg rolls & fish sauce home. By bike. Without spilling anything.
• 17:00 Home safely, despite "Is that sweat or fish sauce trickling down my back?" moments.

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