Westfield Area CSA Blog

Pan Fried Smashed Potatoes

Pan Fried Smashed Potatoes

A simple, quick recipe from Gourmet Magazine.  These are everything potatoes should be: crisp-skinned yet pillowy, sprinkled with a generous amount of salty parmesan.  They require no laborious peeling and are much easier to prepare than french fries.  Serves 4. (more…)

Circle Brook Farm

Farm News – September 2, 2024

Hi All, I hope you had a pleasant holiday weekend. What holiday was it? Oh yes… Labor Day, well that was what we all did here, down on the farm. There just don’t seem to be enough hours in the day or days in the week – a day off just isn’t in the cards. We will rest in the wintertime! (more…)

Beets

Beets

Beets are filled with good things.  High in fiber, vitamins A and C, and surprisingly, more iron than most other vegetables, including spinach!  They also contain calcium, potassium, phosphorous, and folic acid.  The pigments that give beets their signature coloring are strong antioxidants. (more…)

Spaghetti Squash

Spaghetti Squash

Spaghetti squash is an oblong yellow colored winter squash that is named for the spaghetti like nature of its flesh.  When raw, the flesh is hard and generally orange or yellow in color.  When cooked, it comes apart in ribbons, giving it the appearance of spaghetti. (more…)

Beet and Goat Cheese Hummus

Beet and Goat Cheese Hummus

Beets are one of those veggies that are a bit scary, but versatile enough that you can sneak them into almost any other recipe to make things interesting (remember Beet Meatloaf?).  This recipe from abeautifulmess.com does exactly that, combining beets and goat cheese into a hummus recipe to make something completely new and fresh. (more…)

Circle Brook Farm

Farm News – August 26, 2024

Hi Folks! We had a little taste of fall there for a few days, but now the temperatures are creeping back up toward the nineties. It will only be for a few days and, blessedly, it is still cooling off at night. More importantly, it has been dry, allowing the fields to dry out enough to proceed with the fall planting – spinach, arugula, baby bok choi, and broccoli raab – to name just a few. (more…)