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Recipe: pasta with beets
This tasty and colorful pasta is a great way to use early summer beets. 1 bunch beets1–2 Tbl butter1 Tbl. cider vinegar1 Tbl. olive oil2 cloves garlic or alliums of choice~2 ounces cheese, crumbled or...
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Recipe: zucchini bread
Everyone has a favorite zucchini bread recipe. This is ours. 3 cups flour (up to 50% whole wheat flour)1 tsp baking soda½ tsp baking powder1½ tsp cinnamon½ tsp salt½ cup oil (such as canola)½ cup...
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Recipe: zucchini cookies
Any type of summer squash can be used in these moist, tasty cookies. This recipe makes a big batch, so think twice before doubling. Extras freeze well. 4¼ cups flour2 tsp baking soda½ tsp baking...
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Recipe: cucumber sliders
There are lots of creative ways to use abundant summer cucumbers. Here’s an easy one: mini-sandwiches. Just take a good, crispy cuke like our Poone Kheeras, slice into solid discs, spread with goat...
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Simple garlic preparations
Please welcome guest author Joanna, with a run-down of the methods that we used to prepare garlic for our recent on-farm tasting event, along with a few notes about how we might tweak the recipes in...
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Recipe: stuffed tomatoes
Everyone’s heard of stuffed peppers; now try it with tomatoes. This year we planted a unique variety called Striped Cavern, which has thick sidewalls and a nearly empty cavity. Thus you can easily...
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Scratch on-farm BBQ sauce
We like making things from scratch rather than buying them, especially condiments and processed foods; I’ve been making my own mustard for years. This fall, as I began to experiment with both pork and...
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Sweet potato curry
After having a very nice vegetable curry at Bluebird Bistro on our recent trip, I was determined to recreate something similar at home. I’ve made various forms of curries for many years, but generally...
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Recipe: parsnip/mushroom/sweet potato shepherd’s pie
I think a core skill in cooking, especially for those using fresh/seasonal/local ingredients, is learning how to adapt or invent recipes. It’s more efficient, cost-effective, and interesting to learn...
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Recipe: excellent pasta/polenta topping using farm-preserved ingredients
I don’t really know what to call this (a sauce? a topping?), but we’ve made it several times as an easy way to combine many different preserved/stored ingredients into a delicious meal. Thick and...
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Recipe: pepper-spiced wraps & soup using sweet potatoes and mushrooms
Recently I heavily adapted a few recipes from Rick Bayless’ Mexican Kitchen, using the on-farm ingredients we had on hand, to make a really nice multi-course pseudo-Mexican meal that was tied together...
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Making and using crepes
Crepe-making is a wonderfully diverse kitchen skill to have; crepes are easy to make and can be used to improve so many different dishes. I’ve used them as spring roll wrappers, pseudo-tortillas, and...
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Using mint in beverages
One of our favorite ways to use mint is to infuse its flavor into various beverages. Most of these involve heating the liquid, then tossing in a few sprigs of mint. To maximize the mint flavor, we’ve...
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Homemade whole-milk ricotta
Whole-milk ricotta is the easiest fresh cheese to make at home, requiring fairly standard kitchen equipment and a minimum of steps. It doesn’t take very long and produces a very tasty and versatile...
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Home yogurt making
As non-fans of drinking milk on its own, we love making fresh yogurt as an alternative. It’s quite versatile in the kitchen, usable for everything from breakfast to dessert, and we easily go through 2...
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Asian cabbage slaw
We love fresh cabbage, and by far our favorite recipe is based on the Asian Cabbage Slaw from Moosewood New Classics. This is a vinegar-based recipe, which we much prefer to mayo-based slaws. Everyone...
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Borscht master recipe
Borscht (beet soup), chilled or hot, can be an excellent way to use a variety of spring produce. Detailed recipes abound, but you really just need a sense of the basic structure of the soup to adapt it...
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Cucumber salad
Spring spinach salad is a distant memory, lettuce salads are done until fall, and slaw is about to wrap up for the season, too. So, it is time to move on to salads of summer vegetables, such as this...
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Cucumber smoothie
Snacking on cucumbers right off of the plants is one of Joanna’s favorite ways to quench thirst on hot days. This recipe for a refreshing cucumber drink comes courtesy of her parents, and we’ve quickly...
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Pumpkin bread recipe
This is the winter squash equivalent of zucchini bread: easy and delicious. The year we were married was a great year for winter squash. They served as decorations and we served them in wedding cake,...
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