Ron Finley.... has the answers

"Gardening is the most therapeutic & defiant act you can do... especially in the inner city."

Hollygrove Market & Farm

just across Earhart from NorthWest Carrollton
@ 8301 Olive Street, New Orleans, LA 70118

You have got to love a city where all this
Fresh produce, Duck, Free Range Chickens, Ground Lamb, Wild caught Shrimp
is just blocks away....
support your local farmers & fishers, shrimpers, crabbers....

Not quite Goi Du Du

Salad above is a modification of another reciepe.

The trick is to have just little more papaya then carrot.
1 medium (from our papaya tree in the backyard)
5 medium carrots (from the store)

Chop and julienne the papaya (different cuts make the salad more interesting)

In a large bowl
Soak the larger chopped bits of payaya in the lemon juice.
Add the rest of the papaya
and then sprinkle with kosher salt
Mix papaya and salt
Add carrot & mix

Into another small bowl
Squeeze out the exta lemon juice (the papaya will soak most up)
Add 1/4 teaspoon Habanero Sauce = Habaneros (from the backyard) mixed a blender add salt an a tiny bit of vinegar
Mix well adding a little extra lemon juice to ensure mixing.
Pour over payapa & carrot in the larger bowl and Mix well and Quickly!

Julienne at least a dozen medium Fresh Basil leaves (from the backyard) and add to the papaya & carrot mixture.

Lightly Toast about 1/4 - 1/2 cup of roasted pine nuts (I like more!) and add to the salad and serve.

Lemon Dill Chevre

Picked up some Ryal's Goat Dairy Lemon Dill Chevre
at Hollygrove Market and Farm this weekend.

I'm not the cook in my family but..... Here's what I've done with it:

Spread Chevre on Roberts Olive Bread
after thinly (1/4 ") slicing the bread and toasting it the toaster.

For a meaty version of this open face sandwich:
Create Robert Olive Bread size ground meat hamburgers that are about an inch thick. Just add salt, pepper & a little bit of Worsterchester Sauce to the meat mix.
Spray some Pam in a small frying pan and cook until medium rare.
Slice the medium rare burgers in half and put on top of the Chevre covered Olive Bread.

Make a salad
Into a large salad bowl
Add the cleaned! Head of lettuce, also from this weekend's market, that you have broken into small bits.
Add fresh arugula (from our garden).
Scrape a fork over the container of Chevre so small bits fall on to the lettuce/arugula mix.

In a Small Bowl put some Ranch Dressing (1/4 cup) and add a little bit of Lemon Juice (4 tablespoons). Mix aggressively.

Pour over salad in large bowl and mix well.

Serve as lunch with some freshly brewed tea.

For Dessert
Enjoy fresh strawberries & wedges of Blood Oranges, also from this weekend's market.