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Flatbush Farm Share: This Week's Eats
Flatbush Farm Share: This Week's Eats
www.flatbushfarmshare.com a partnership of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, Hunger Action Network, and Just Food
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Joe’s
1.14 / SEP 2 2009
Preparation time: 2 hours (it will pay off, trust me!) Every time dill is available at the pick-up table, I see
Serves: 2 mounds of it in the swap box. Here’s some ideas for how
to use it.
Ingredients:
5 medium onions, sliced finely 1. Dill goes very well with fish. Clean a whole fish and
1 1/2 Tbsp butter rub the skin with salt and olive oil. Stuff the cavity with
1 1/2 Tbsp olive oil some lemon or orange slices (or both!), dill and parsley,
1/2 tsp salt bake for about 20 minutes at 350F, or until the flesh flakes
1/4 tsp sugar when poked with a fork.
2 cups broth
1/2 tsp dried thyme 2. Fried dill is delicious. Heat 1-2 tablespoons of oil in a
pan over medium high heat and throw in small bunches
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add olive oil and onions, of dill. Toss them in the oil until crisp, then remove
letting them cook gently at low heat for about 15 minutes, them to a paper towel to drain. Use the now dill-flavored
or until the onions are translucent. oil in the rest of your cooking (pan-fried fish perhaps?)
and serve the fried dill as a side.
Trivia #1: This is letting the onions “sweat”, as opposed to the
more common term “sauté”, which means cooking at a high heat 3. Spice up your mayonnaise. Mix 2 parts mayonnaise to
with a small amount of oil. 1 part dill, by volume. Season with salt and pepper.
Add the salt and sugar, increase the heat to medium and 4. Spice up your butter too. Mix 1 tablespoon of chopped
cover the saucepan. Let it sit for 30-45 minutes, stirring dill with 6 tablespoons of softened (not melted) butter.
occasionally to turn the onions. The onions will slowly Store chilled in a covered container. You can substitute
reach a caramel brown as they cook. the dill for any herb of your choice. You can also add
peeled roasted garlic for garlic spread.
Add the broth and thyme and let the pot come to a boil.
Reduce the heat and let simmer for 30 minutes. 5. The slight minty taste of dill also goes very well with
the cool juiciness of cucumbers. Add a tablespoon of dill
Serve with a sprinkling of parmesan or gruyere cheese to your favourite cucumber salad.
and a twist of black pepper.
6. The coarse dill stems aren’t as delicate as the herb it-
Trivia #2: A traditional German appetizer is a hand-made self, but are still very flavourful. Save and add to chicken
sour milk cheese served with chopped onions. This dish is soup as it simmers, it adds a great flavour.
poetically named Handkäse mit Musik, or “Hand-cheese with
Music”, because of the flatulence commonly brought on by the
onions. It varies in degree from person to person, but vegetables
such as onions and cabbage contain fiber that the body has some
difficulty digesting, resulting in gas build-up.