Ducksredux

sure, it's in Morrisville, cost is $500 with a pickup each week in either Morrisville or Newtown plus pick-yer-own at the farm plus the standard 4 hrs volunteer at some point. 22 weeks and half a bushel each week. Website is Snipes Farm and CSA info is Snipes Farm CSA altho I believe the deadline was two weeks ago.

We're trying out Snipes Farm CSA this summer, up here in Bucks County. First time doing it. Hoping to cook my way through Julie Sahni's Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking. I like the idea of guilt... like if you don't cook them they'll go to waste and there are millions starving for kale, and also it's like a gym membership - if you eat all that kale you don't feel like you get your money's worth. I'm excited to make kale parathas and kale stew and kale soup and kale pizza and kale ice cream and kale fondue and

well I can buy them online but they're expensive... Kalustyan's has them and Bob's Red Mill packages them... but if I'm spending $6 a lb on them then they're not a good cheap meal, they're an expensive hassle.

So all my middle-eastern and italian cookbooks say look for skinless dried fava beans in an Indian market... I have a Indian SUPERmarket near me and can't find them there. The grocers/salespeople there are no help. My only lead is that they are called Chikkudu. Unless they look completely different than Fava beans do when they still have their shell on. Any help?

on a sidenote... the woman who runs the RTM Thai place also owns Erawan on 23rd and Sansom and will make Thai food the Thai way if you call her in advance. Fit to be Thai'd Chowhound Thai dinner part 1 Chowhound Thai dinner part 2 I went on that outing and ate till I burst. Another aside: allegedly some restaurants will sell buckets of fresh grated coconut but I've never asked around... and then I got a coconut stool from the Thai market so I didn't need one. Anyone have a lead?

hmm I missed this... was it New Heaven? I still regret my dinner there from 3 years ago. Rude, and bad sushi to boot.

buncha places have chaat on their appetizer menus, such as Desi Village in Langhorne. I was astonished by the lack of flavor in everything I ordered 3 yrs ago at udippi... maybe I'll try it again based on the recs here.

Tiffin - Indian delivery in the city? Inquirer - 7/29/2007 "The name, Tiffin, was inspired by the lunch courier networks of Bombay, in which barefoot deliverymen called dabbawallas bring multichambered metal boxes of freshly home-cooked meals to office workers each day. And the heart of Narula's operation was dedicated to creating a changing, daily selection of three complete box meals inspired by homey specialties rarely seen on typical restaurant menus."

thanks for the helpful suggestions. I've watched a few now and have a better idea what I'm doing. I'm not a creative cook in the least - I just follow directions - so it can be hard to figure out when a dish is at the right stage. Seeing someone else do it helps a lot.

also some amazing cottage cheese and strawberry jam. We were there on Monday and got to see a 1-day old calf. We got the Gruyere, the Tomme, and the Dirty Laundry. The Gruyere and Tomme were both good table cheeses, altho I prefer french Gruyere which is oilier and more delicate and unctuous with lots more subtlety. Hendricks' Gruyere was heartier and more robust, but frankly for the price I'd rather do French. The Dirty Laundry, despite the horrible name, was a stunner. Less blue than blue, but still with plenty of moldy bite. The pate is sheepy, with an edible rind. A cheese to return for again and again, altho I may call in advance next time to make sure they have it in stock (altho I guess I could just read the email newlsetter).

as recently as last summer DiBruno's was offering Hendricks Farm cheeses. I saw their "cow pie" - a 60-day raw milk camembert - at Whole Foods on South Street yesterday

When it's 90 degrees out cheese will weep a lot of butterfat very quickly.

Howdy! Thought this summer I might try to cook along to a video or two. I prefer videos that talk more about technique and less about the recipe. Cause I've got recipes, zillions of them. Like, close-ups of perfectly browned spices and ghee and onions. Any leads?

Tiffin Tiffin Tiffin. Usually great, sometimes eh, rarely bleh. Samosa has good dosa. Lovash is bland beyond imagining.

A Luscious Taste and Aroma From India Arrives At Last Alphonso Mangoes are here!!!

eh, just stick the seeds and red powders in the fridge. Don't need too many oils, just sesame, peanut and vegetable. Some recipes call for coconut oil but not many.

it's weird, poorly labelled, and the products look old. The Walnut store looks like it has higher turnover. But really check out Subzi Mandi, it's an experience. Freshest coconuts in the Philly area, to boot. There's also a smaller place in the NE called Malik's Mini Mart which may have what u need. I think it's a little nutty to go looking for a packaged masala. Cardamom in particular loses its volatility within weeks of being ground. Some masalas, like chaat masala have weird twigs and stuff you'd never be able to find, so they're worth buying.

well I'm no fan of 42nd and Chestnut, that's for sure. Subzi Mandi in Bensalem is huge, they may have it

Ardmore is a bit far for me, so I'll try Wricley and do a side by side comparison with Nuts to You and a couple others.

Howdy! Frustrated by uneven nut quality. I eat tons of nuts so I need a great source. Nuts to you, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods are all less than amazing quality. Help a nutter?

Actually their onion chutney has gotten hotter and hotter every day, but that's just a tiny side. They make their meals in advance and in bulk, so they can't add heat to order. Chiles have to be cooked into the meal. Most Indian places will just mix in a little of their chile sauce if u ask for it hotter, not exactly cooking it with the meal. Potatoes or another tuber are usually their side vegetable dish, but not always. Tubers are how you fill up if you're a vegetarian in India. You certainly don't fill up on okra. Potatoes, cauliflower and peas. Meanwhile their 2 main vegetarian dishes every day are hardly ever potatoes. Usually it's paneer or eggplant. And I don't find their meals hot, but they're hotter than what is called mild is at most Indian restaurants.

$5 and $6 dosas. Be fun to go as a group. They have 7 or 8 kinds. Over on chowhound some folks loved their buffet. I can't get excited about buffets. But ever since that article in the Times (From Mumbai to Midtown) a year or two ago I've been mad for dosas and chaat. I may make every tuesday or wednesday a dosa day. Thursday is tiffin day. Friday is tiffin leftovers. Makes up for not having married an Indian woman. 6pm Tuesday, anyone?

The New Samosa should be added to the list also. 20" delicious dosas. Dunno about their other food yet. Old Samosa was boring to the max.

Sauce has like 10 bottles of wine which are all Merlot or Chardonnay. Their pizza isn't exactly worth going out of your way for. Tried for upscale now theyre trying for dive. And Shinju is forgettable. But cheap eateries, yes they are. Also NYPD and the Burrito place and the Turkish place with all the health inspection failures. Then there's Jeweler's row... Spruce Rana (aka SpruceORama) also has sushi, as yet untasted. I see people sitting there eating and their faces are level with mine by the window and we both look surprised and uncomfortable to suddenly be looking directly at a stranger.

yah I don't miss New York food very much. My folks live on the upper west side and I didn't exactly find that to be a mecca of delicious cheap fine dining. Buncha yuppie fusion crap. And La Caridad blech deep fried omelets. $2 bagels at H&H. But we don't have Fairway and Zabar's. Fresh and delicious baguettes for $1, vs. tasteless ones from DiBruno's or Metropolitan for $3. My brother lives in Astoria and eats like a king. In new york you hop on a subway and you're in a different world with lots more cheap food... philly is just so much smaller and less ethnically diverse and less connected by public transportation (we don't even have a bus map!). But in our neighborhood C'Avo just opened (10th and Irving) with decent quiche ($6) and some miscellaneous "gourmet" sandwiches and pizza (It replaced Urartu which replaced Luna. Urartu closed the day I had a sudden craving for baklava). There's Pastoral, Aqua, Aoi... and that's just in a few block radius. I love being walking distance from Chinatown... in New York I'd have to get on the subway and stare at ads for laser skin treatment and correspondence college for a half hour and be coughed on by people with t.b. if I wanted real chinese. Tiffin delivers! Life is good here.