Kelli Patterson Photography

Hellgate CSA - Week 7

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:53:00 -0400

Full Share - Beets, String Beans, Lettuce, Round Yellow Zucchini, Yellow & Red Plums, White Nectarines, Apples, Scallions, Mint and a Cucumber.

I didn’t take any pictures of meals this week (because, honestly, I hate taking pictures of food) but we made fennel souffle, pasta & peas, zucchini & carrot muffins, a zillion different kinds of pesto (curly cress, mint, cilantro, basil), orecchiette & radicchio, and tzatziki.

Verrazano Bridge thru the sunroof

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:51:39 -0400

Verrazano Bridge thru the sunroof

Album: Lisa’s 30th Birthday Shower

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:30:00 -0400

Album: Lisa’s 30th Birthday Shower

Hellgate CSA - Week 6

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:07:16 -0400

Full Share: Carrots, Zucchini, Cucumber, Lettuce, Radicchio, String Beans, Spring Onions, Plums, Nectarines and Ah Peach.

Set up for stir-fry. We have a wee wok, so I had to do it in batches. The snow peas are CSA.

The wee-wok stir-fry. (Recipe)

Zucchini & Leeks Quiche (Recipe)
We used Whole Foods pie shells again. They’re just so much easier.
Not pictured is another zucchini dish we made: Zucchini, Mint and Lemon Yogurt spread. It wasn’t very photogenic, and we ate it very fast. (Recipe)

Brooklyn Cyclones & Coney Island

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:56:29 -0400

Photos taken with Gib’s iPhone

I borrowed this photo from Matt. Us waiting for our turn on the Cyclone!
(I also jumped in the ocean with all my clothes on this day. Great day.)

Week 5 - Hellgate CSA

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:09:00 -0400

Best haul yet! This is a full share before splitting it with Colleen. Fennel, Fava Beans, Spring Onions, Lettuce, Zucchini, Sugar Snap & Shelling Peas, Curly Cress, Peaches, Apricots and Pears. WOO HOO!

4th of July Hike/Swim in Harriman State Park

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:05:59 -0400

The swim team

They swam out to the island (time: 9min)

Lightwriting with Sparklers

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:53:00 -0400

Playing Settlers after a fabulous bbq On the porch of the Sometimes Hotel

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:44:00 -0400

Playing Settlers after a fabulous bbq
On the porch of the Sometimes Hotel

Hellgate CSA - Week 4

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:40:00 -0400

I did a horrible job of documenting this week. The full haul was:

Sugar Snap Peas
Lettuce
Beets
Chinese flat podded snow peas
Peaches
Plums
Blueberries

The sugar snap peas we ate raw again, man they’re good. The lettuce is being devoured via a daily salad for lunch at work. The snow peas we’ve yet to make, but the hope is some sort of stir-fry. I didn’t get a chance to try the peaches, there were only 2, and one was rotted, which we found out after the first one was consumed by Gib. The plums were good, but too tart for me! And the blueberries were half eaten raw, and half being turned into muffins.

The beets we turned into chips, following the recipe from Mark Bittman’s book “How to Cook Everything Vegetarian”

They were good, though I preferred the mushy ones over the crispy ones.
We didn’t do anything with the greens. They were sort of wilted by the time we got to them, but mostly I just didn’t have the energy to quick-research something that evening. Sinful, I suppose, but I am doing the best I can.

Not on purpose, I bought beer “with beet juice color.”
It was meant to be…

Here’s a crappy picture of a really good quiche we made from last week’s Swiss Chard. (recipe) It has shallots, garlic, bacon, pine nuts, raisins, gruyere, eggs and crème fraîche (or creamy franchezy as we like to say.) It was excellent and easy, since we used pre-made frozen pie crust from Whole Foods. We’ll definitely make it again

Album: Astoria Park Fireworks

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:52:17 -0400

Album: Astoria Park Fireworks

us guys waiting for fireworks to start

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:51:31 -0400

Lemon Lavender Cake made with the lavender from week 3 (recipe)...

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:35:49 -0400

Lemon Lavender Cake made with the lavender from week 3 (recipe)
My first cake!

Week 3 all in 1 shot: Mustard Greens, Swiss Chard, A bowl of...

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:09:43 -0400

Week 3 all in 1 shot: Mustard Greens, Swiss Chard, A bowl of cherries (many are missing, we at them) Lettuce (also missing some I ate) Curly Cress, Lavender, Sugar Snap Peas (probably a few missing) and AH apple. This is 1/2 a share.

The curly cress has been transformed into pesto, the mustard greens will become a saag and the swiss chard I shall make into a tart. I’m also going to use some of the lavender in a cake, but after that I’ll probably discontinue using it for cooking, and put it out for smelling instead. The snap peas are perfect raw, and we’re going to make round two of this amazing pasta salad, and use them up in there (it’s also a good use of the tarragon from week 1, which I have in my freezer.) Other key ingredients for that pasta salad was good proper greek feta, which I bought from a very nice man in the back of this store. I said, “hook me up with your best feta” and he did not fail us.

If you can’t tell, I’m having LOADS of fun with this new game.

I bought these small potatoes at the farmstand and some were blue, and inside they were also blue!...

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:30:00 -0400

I bought these small potatoes at the farmstand and some were blue, and inside they were also blue! (But really purple.) They made potato salad look like ink bags went off in it. Totally taste normal though. Here we’re making breakfast potatoes/homefries/whatever. FUN.

And this is why you’ll never see pictures of cooking again. I can not watch my exposure and watch the heat. Cooking is really new to me. And photography ain’t that old either. This is a photo of some slightly overcooked poached eggs.

I went on a tour of my CSA’s farm. I picked strawberries...

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:06:00 -0400

I went on a tour of my CSA’s farm. I picked strawberries and fulfilled the volunteer requirement. I also got to ride a school bus!

Full Album (with captions) - Green Thumb - Hellgate CSA Farm

Hellgate CSA - Week 2

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:02:00 -0400

More strawberries

More lettuce (this is the end, I just barely remembered to take a photo)

Dried black beans

And their shells (Gib shucked them before I had a chance to take a pic)

Cilantro

*not pictured* Asparagus.
We gave it all to Colleen because there were like 7 of them.

We soaked and cooked the black beans, and had burrito night with guacamole loaded with cilantro. The rest of the cilantro I turned into a pesto and froze in an ice cube tray for individual meals on weeknights. The strawberries and the lettuce are long gone. NOM.

Sandy & Adrienne’s 3-day destination wedding in the Catskills Hiking up to Kaaterskill...

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:13:00 -0400

Sandy & Adrienne’s 3-day destination wedding in the Catskills

Hiking up to Kaaterskill Falls

Kaaterskill Falls

Hi!

This guy…

Wedding watching…

THE MOMENT

Married.

Bowtie Necklace

Reception Tent

TIME TO PARTY!

Full Album: Sandy & Adrienne’s Wedding

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other. One is my 70-200mm...

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:19:02 -0400

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other. One is my 70-200mm f/2.8L IS … and the other is a travel coffee mug! HA!

Hellgate CSA - Week 1

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:22:00 -0400

Best strawberries I’ve ever had.

Sunchoke (Jerusalem Artichoke) *not pictured* the gratin I made.

A poor picture of some greenhouse collard greens and half a head of lettuce

Tarragon *not pictured* the egg salad I made. (though I did not make the eggs as soft as this recipe did.)