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A tinier version of butternut squash, honeynut is slightly sweeter and has a thinner edible skin. Here’s a recipe for roast honeynut squash, found on Olivia Adriance’s food blog. You can serve alongside a roasted protein for a simple but totally satisfying weeknight meal. Or give it a try for Thanksgiving and see what your family and friends have to say about this mini gourd. Serves 6 as sides. (more…)
This recipe, shared by a CSA member and found in Parade Magazine, can be made with many of our shares, and a healthy way to get kids to eat their veggies. It’s as easy as 1-2-3! (more…)
Hello Folks! As we head into the final weeks of the season we will be relying on the cool weather crops-spinach, brassicas, greens in the mustard family, as well as root crops and storage crops like potatoes and winter squash. We may double up on the root vegetables and there may be both regular potatoes and sweet potatoes in a share. Since the frost, which killed the vines, we have been busy harvesting the sweet potatoes and we have a nice crop. There are a lot of tubers to dig, and we would love to have help with the harvest. (more…)
This salad – recommended to us by a CSA member and found on Jeanette’s Healthy Living food blog – is the perfect fall or winter salad for lunch or dinner. A tangy and sweet dressing with a little bite of horseradish ties all the ingredients together. Serves 4. (more…)
Hey All! So, it has been raining now for two and half days and you would think that I’d be happy. Unfortunately, you would be wrong, because the drizzle that we have been receiving has still not reached half an inch. On top of that, the frost that came last Thursday night was far colder than predicted or anticipated. We experienced substantial damage on crops that should have tolerated light frost. Oh well, that’s farming! We covered what we could, battened down the greenhouses, and harvested some things we knew would not survive. We took a serious financial hit, but we still have plenty of good veggies for the shares. (more…)
Easy to grow and store, high-yielding, supernutritious and crunchy like an apple, yacón root (pronounced ya-kon) is one of the many “new” vegetables coming to us from South America. In reality, this fruitlike vegetable has been cultivated throughout the Andes for more than a millennium. South Americans eat it as a fruit; they also use the huge leaves to wrap foods during cooking, in the same way cabbage leaves are used in Germany, grape leaves in the Mideast and banana leaves in the tropics. Only recently – thanks to some adventurous green thumbs – have North Americans begun to see yacón in produce markets. (more…)
Found on the Attainable Sustainable food blog, this “yacón sauce” recipe is a twist on apple sauce. It’s not exactly like applesauce, but it’s “pretty darned good”! Cooked yacón takes on the flavor of what you add to it; it’s not a very distinct flavor on its own. Consider this a base recipe and play with it a bit. I could see it working well with dried apricots, too, or maybe even mixed with fresh berries. (more…)
You’ve made mashed potatoes before, but have you ever tried mashed cauliflower? This recipe, found on foodnetwork.com, is a delicious low carb alternative to your traditional mashed potatoes. Try pre-roasting the garlic and adding a little fresh rosemary for an even bigger taste. Serves 4. (more…)
If you ever wondered how to cook cranberry beans and what to do with them, this recipe is perfect for you. Found on the mayihavethatrecipe.com food blog, this dish is quick, simple, and super flavorful. Yields about 4 cups. (more…)
Hello Folks! So, it was another beautiful weather week with no rain. We have a chance of getting some showers Tuesday night into Wednesday morning- we can only hope. We may also have our first frost of the fall later this week. If we do it only be a light one, affecting only the most sensitive plants such as basil and sweet potatoes. We have already begun digging the sweet potatoes and this week you will be digging them too! (more…)