Radicchio and Summer Squash Salad
Found on Royal Rose’s radicchio.com, this recipe is easy, colorful, and readily combines some of our veggies this week. The recipe serves 6. (more…)
Author: Bryan Housel
Farm News – June 27, 2022
Hi Everyone, I need to keep it brief this time, because I must get back out in the field to get some planting done. I am almost finished with sowing the winter squash – just two varieties of acorn to go! I will be planting sweet corn and cucumbers later this evening. I like to plant late in the day, just after we till the beds. The seeds then have the night to soak up the humidity in the soil before the sun begins to dry out the surface. Tomorrow I will make the second planting of beets and the third planting of carrots. (more…)
Spinach, Carrot, and Mushroom Lasagna
Here’s a delicious vegetarian lasagna that your family will love! This recipe was found on the food blog chocolatemoosey.com. To save time, making the sauce and assembling the lasagna can be done ahead of time. Store in the refrigerator until ready to use/bake. Serves 10-12.
Cilantro Lime Salad Dressing
As the herb-growing season draws to an end, we’ve been lucky to have a choice of herbs, including cilantro. I overhear many of our members say they love cilantro, so, as we promised earlier in the season when we said we’d try to find new and interesting salad dressing recipes, today we offer a Cilantro Lime Salad Dressing that also takes advantage of those “extra” jalapeño peppers — I hope some of you have taken a few and still can find them in your fridge! Give this a try and enjoy cilantro in a new form on your next fresh salad! (more…)
Farm News – June 20, 2022
Hello Folks! Curioser and curioser, this weather of ours. It was quite a chilly weekend, between the low temperatures and the high winds. My workers had their winter coats on again. I was busy planting the pumpkins and winter squash which I generally do in the evenings to avoid the midday heat. I was out planting all afternoon on Sunday with a sweater and a windbreaker on! Last night it dropped down to 48 degrees here on the farm. This cool weather is good for the greens, lettuces, and peas – but the peppers don’t really like it much. (more…)
Baby Turnips and Turnip Greens
The following recipe, taken from the William Sonoma cookbook, Cooking from the Farmers’ Market, is a nice and easy way to use the turnips and its greens at once. As we expect the Hakurei to be small turnips, you can ignore the recommendation to trim the leaves in the recipe (below) but may follow it when using Fall turnips. The recipe yields 4 servings. Enjoy! (more…)
Farm News – June 13, 2022
Hello everyone, I hope that you enjoyed the first week of your share, because week two will be similar. We still have tons (I wanted to write “lots” but Editor wants me to be more specific) of beautiful spinach, which I expect to continue for several more weeks. We are heavy on lettuce, so there will be two heads of different varieties in all but the smallest share size (time to make that BIG salad, lol). (more…)
Garden Peas (aka English Peas)
Garden, or English peas, are your standard “pea in a pod.” They have more nutrients and calories than snow or sugar snap peas and are a bit more work as they need to be shelled. Garden peas are sweet and succulent for three to four days after they are picked, but turn mushy and starchy very quickly after harvesting. So use them fast! (more…)
Sugar Snap Peas
Sugar snap peas, unlike last week’s garden peas, have edible pods that are filled with plump sweet peas. Use them quickly as they lose their flavor and structure when stored. They can be eaten raw, but are best when cooked, requiring little time: steam sugar snaps for about 4 minutes.
Sugar snap peas are a member of the legume family and are a good source of folate, vitamins A and C, and zinc.
Farm News – June 6, 2022
Hello Everyone, so here we go… lettuce begin! We are off to a good start with the first delivery of the season. As most of you know the first few deliveries in the spring are a bit smaller and heavy on the greens. The shares will build steadily over the next few weeks. We always try to have peas ready for the first round, but the cool spring slowed them down. It is possible there may be some English(shell) peas in shares toward the end of the week. If this is the case, we will make it up to the early week groups when we are coming to the end of the pea season. We have lots of sugar snap peas planted, so you should see these 2 or 3 times over the next month or so. (more…)