Sweet Potatoes with Local Honey and Smoked Peppers
This is great start to your fall cooking. A warming, sweet and savory dish, with a spicy kick! The red jalapenos are often called chipotles. These chipotle peppers were harvested red on the vine from this year’s jalapeno plants, smoked…
Living Richly
I know this breakfast doesn’t look like much at first, so I’ll explain. As farmers, Justin and I have never expected to be wealthy. We know this isn’t the life of nice cars, expensive travel, and frequent luxuries, but almost…
Roasted Spring Salad with Fennel and Radicchio
This is a spring salad of the best sort—hearty, bright, and filling enough that it can stand alone as a light meal (Though we served ours with a couple of Twin Pines’ grass-fed t-bones). Serve at room temp or chilled;…
Pea Shoots with Browned Butter
When butter is browned, it takes on a warm, nutty flavor perfect for the nuttiness of the tender pea shoots. This lightly cooked vegetable would be tasty aside roast chicken, or graceful underneath a filet of grilled fish. Enjoy this…
Butternut Squash and Swiss Chard Lasagne
This is one of those meals that’s savory and satisfying the first time around, even better as leftovers, and just as phenomenal baked after a long hibernation in the freezer. It’s an ideal weekend project: double (or triple) the recipe…
Roasted Turnip and Grain Salad
Serves 4 as a side. Ingredients 2 medium Purple Top or Scarlet Queen turnips, plus their greens (or a handful of radish greens or Asian spring mix) 1 small onion 1 cup pearled barley (or quinoa, if eating gluten free)…
Variations on Pickled Hot Peppers
As the frosts come this week and take what is left of summer’s abundance, I like to hold on to the remaining tastiness as long as possible. Preserve your last big harvest of hot peppers for some fiery heat long…
Roasted Squash and Kale Salad
This is a fall salad of the best sort—sturdy roots, the first of the hearty winter squash, and the delicious genius of roasted kale. Serve warm or at room temp; it won’t last long either way. (And neither did anything…
Roasted Radishes, Peppers, & Garlic
During this lucky and brief window of October and early November, the summer crops are on their way out and the fall crops are just beginning. It’s a very rare occasion that nature gives us bell peppers and radishes…
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