Michael's Cooking

I am an avid hobby cook. Here some of the dishes I recently made, full of the flavors that vegetables from our own, completely organic garden bring to the table. Cooking, as gardening, are rewarding ways of being in the world, nothing else is of importance once one abandons oneself to the pleasures of creating and transforming the food one eats from seed to the table. Every act in the process is a political act, working against GMOs, global transportation, exploitation of the poor, and so forth. The transformation of the world begins, literally, in our own back yards. Here some recipes:

	Grilled vegetables and tofu with honey mustard sauce		Labneh on mint with black Moroccan olives and olive oil		Oatmeal tartlets with minted hummus		Baccalà Mantecato (Venitian)
	Squash soup		Summer salad with squash flowers		Pesto-filled cherry tomatoes		Pumpkin roulade
	Roasted pepper with caramelized garlic		Gazpacho		Tuscan olive bread		Tomato salad
	Risotto, squash, and pistachio		Tomato blue cheese soup with basil		Goujonettes de sole		Pumpkin soup with tofu and barley dumplings and basil
	Rocket quiche with fried basil leaves		Salad and fried haloumy		Tomato aspic with snapper, egg, & prawn		Jerusalem artichoke soup
	Squash cauliflower ginger and lemon grass soup		Mousse of sardines with rutabaga variations		Avocado cream with tomato and olive oil		Crème brulée, cheesecake ice cream and strawberry sauce
	Pumpkin quiche		Pan Pizza