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Roasted Chicken or Turkey & Squash Soup

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 […]

Chicken Stew with Ricotta-Herb Dumplings

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 […]

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

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 […]

Available from Farm: July 13-17

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 […]

How to Part a Chicken

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 […]

Tostada Salad with Cilantro Lime Dressing

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 […]

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

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 […]

Cilantro-Lime Chicken Salad

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 […]

Chicken Tomatillo Soup

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 […]

Transitions

Fall is arriving and with it some seasonal transitions of crops in from the fields and poultry ready to be processed.  Today we took this year’s batch of 300+ Freedom Ranger chickens to Maple Wind Farm‘s inspected processing facility  and this weekend we will process our turkeys on farm with a great crew of staff, […]