Eating from the Farm: Cooking Ideas

Inspiration for delicious local, farm fresh eating from the farmers and farm share members!

Stuffed Pumpkin

This was our favorite discovery a few years ago…yes our friends and family ALL got to see it at any occasion we could think of while the Winter Luxury Pumpkins lasted. Yes, it is that good and that easy! We meant to try it with a Long Pie pumpkin as well, going more boat shaped, […]

Slow Grilled Ribs with Chris’* Great Rub

from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything On the grill or in the oven…delicious!  Bittman says, “You can make these faster and easier (see oven variation) but – at home at least – I don’t think you can make them any better.” *Chris Schlesinger, author of the Thrill of the Grill. This has been our […]

Tomato & Fennel Salad Recipe

Recipe for tomato fennel salad

Pea & Radish Salad

or Pea & Salad Turnip Salad, depending on what you have on hand. This is the essence of crisp, juicy summer veggies. Snap Pea season is short, but do delightful. This is another fabulous way to enjoy them. Ingredients Vinaigrette dressing. 2 garlic cloves crushed with salt. Then add 2T lemon juice, 2t balsamic vinegar […]

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 […]

Grilled Leg of Lamb

A delightful plan for cooking Leg of Lamb that doesn’t reguire the oven either for summer heat waves or holiday needs. Leg of Lamb on the grill! We’ve found this recipe SUPER easy, realtively quick (often the case with pasture raised meats) and fully delicious! Below was my approach after consulting a few different recipes. […]

Caesar Salad Substitute

So…many of us love that crunch and creaminess of a Caesar Salad, so we love to shift around some ingredients to what we have in season.  This week – you can do it with the versatile Tokyo Bekana.  And you can go for the true Caesar dressing, or this quick, tangy lovely Feta Buttermilk dressing […]

Red-Wine Braised Shanks (Goat or Lamb)

Great chance to enjoy some additional slow cooked goodness before the summer season kicks in. Contributed by Jeremy Silansky to Food and Wine Magazine for their How to Eat like a Localvore article a few years ago when he was General Manager of Skinny Pancake.  Another good shank recipe (you can adpat to use lard or other […]

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 […]

Brining & Roasting a Turkey

We generally brine our turkeys, out of habit now almost. And because the Cooks Illustrated timing seems to work well for us, and if we are using a frozen turkey, brining is a GREAT way to finish defrosting the bird.  We often use a cooler for the brining process and put in cold water and […]