Coconut Chicken Curry and Indian-Style Green Beans with Mustard Seed
This month’s Spice Rack Challenge features mustard seeds, and while I’ve experimented with a couple of recipes for prepared mustard, […]
Lemon Verbena Ice Cream
This beautiful ice cream is simply delicious: it’s lemony and grassy from the herbs. Our CSA grew lemon verbena for […]
Okra, Green Bean and Chard Soup
Sometimes you just have to suspend your disbelief. Or maybe just put your trust in a proven source. This silken […]
Peach “Marmalade” with Rose Geranium
Our neighborhood elementary school has vegetable, flower and herb gardens that are used as a hands-on learning experience for students. […]
Paper Chef: Nectarine Upside-Down Cake with Green Tea Ice Cream
With the ingredients nectarines, cornmeal, almonds and green tea for this month’s Paper Chef, I immediately thought of an upside-down […]
In a Jam: Groundcherries
Ground cherries, also known as husk cherries, are piquant little yellow orbs that try like crazy to grow into their […]
Summer Salad: Watermelon and Tomatoes with Feta and Mint
This is a refreshing and delicious salad for this season of plentiful fruit. The tang of the cheese and spark […]
Fig Jam with Rosemary and Lemon
I made a batch of microwaved fig jam (like the orange fig jam I made last year) and while it […]
September: Eggplants, Visual and Gustatory Feasts and a Go-to Appetizer
Among the many things I love about our CSA farmers at Honey Brook Organic Farm is the variety of crops […]
Hurricane 101: Keep it Simple
Yes, this was a terrible incident, caused by Irene. She was a bitch in the worst sense of the word. […]
Waste Not Want Not – Getting the Most from your Food: Minestrone with Cheese Rinds, and a Vegetable Broth Bonus
Minestrone made with the freshest organic vegetables from our CSA and local farms epitomizes the late summer harvest. It also […]
Fresh Shelling Beans, a Seasonal Treat
You know that summer is coming to an end when shelling beans start ripening in the garden and appearing in […]
Plum Sorbet with Ginger and Cardamom
I was listening to A Splendid Table on NPR while driving between farm and farmers market a couple of Saturdays […]
Okra and Pork Stew
Okra at our CSA is in overdrive. We are harvesting one, two, and now even four quarts per week. While […]
Full of Beans: Three Energizing Seasonal Salads
Here are three of the many ways we’ve been enjoying beans over the last couple of weeks since they arrived […]
Queen Anne’s Lace Jelly
Foraging the breezy fields for that lacy white flower known as Queen Anne’s Lace, also known as wild carrot, yielded […]
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