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Summer Eating!

July 11, 2024 – 9:59 pm

While I love Fall & Winter cooking and the coziness it provides, Summer eating is really special. So fresh, so many colors, textures & flavors. Salads that can become whole meals because you keep adding different veggies, fruits and whatever meat you’ve cooked or grilled….good localvore living. Summer Eating gets better around here this week […]

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How to Part a Chicken

July 4, 2024 – 7:35 am

Several years ago, two of our teammates teamed up to not only offer a live demo of how to cut up a chicken, but to document it so folks could continue to learn from it.  We often offer thanks to our former staff, today we thank Guy & Penelope for this great piece of kitchen […]

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Roasted Chicken or Turkey & Squash Soup

November 19, 2023 – 6:07 am

Adapted from:  SeriousEats.com  This continues to be one of our most favorite and most requested soups. We discovered it several years ago and it was the tastiest soup we had made in ages. Bonus is that it is really simple and can easily follow a yummy roasted chicken or roasted turkey meal (yes, perfect for […]

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Chicken Stew with Ricotta-Herb Dumplings

May 13, 2023 – 9:49 am

In the this in between season and with some cool evenings coming up, it can still be nice to enjoy a good stew. Recipe by Diane Fish as published in the Kitsap Sun Farm to Fork blog Place a large (or two small) stewing hen in a pot with 1 onion, 3 stalks celery or some […]

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Simple Roast Chicken—from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything

November 21, 2022 – 8:14 am

This remains our go-to recipe for roasting chickens.  Years ago, we tried several different recipes, but ALWAYS come back to this one because it is easy and reliably great. And our chickens are reliable done in about an hour (in our convection oven). Just make sure your chicken is fully defrosted and best if it […]

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Available from Farm: July 13-17

July 13, 2020 – 5:34 pm

Fresh CHICKEN This week for your enjoyment and great for cutting up for your own freezer.  The new online farmstand is running well.  Let us know if you have any troubles or questions as it is a learning curve for us all. Our website is always stocked with lots of recipe ideas.  You can scroll […]

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Tostada Salad with Cilantro Lime Dressing

June 8, 2020 – 10:44 am

From Moosewood Daily Specials (more or less) When lettuce is plentiful, we crave more creative salad based meals and we think of our Cilantro Lime build your own mexican inspired salad. This is one of our favorites and it ends up a bit different every time depending on what is in season and in our pantry. And other […]

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Chickens: What is the difference between fryers, broilers and stewers?

October 31, 2019 – 8:44 am

We have now have a variety of chicken in the farmstand so here is a quick cheat sheet.  What is the difference between fryers, broilers, roasters and stew birds? Stewing Chickens—the easy one. Stew birds are usually laying hens that have passed their prime. They are older and their meat can be tougher, but more […]

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Cilantro-Lime Chicken Salad

May 16, 2018 – 9:32 am

In honor of this warm Spring weather and lots of greens!  Perhaps serve this chicken salad over a bed of greens. Chicken (1…or more) Olive oil, bacon fat, lard, poultry fat herbs Yogurt Lime juice Cilantro Garlic onions dried tomatoes dried currants salt pepper Fennel (optional but nice when in season to add a nice […]

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Chicken Tomatillo Soup

February 15, 2018 – 8:12 am

We have been so enjoying cooking with our canned tomatillos, including the tomatillo sauce that already has some onions and garlic in it, that we flashed back on this soup, which we haven’t made in ages. Recipe adapted from A Communal Table.com Author noted, “This soup makes a great change from the usual tomato based chicken soups […]

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