This summer, we had more sweet corn than any previous year. Gillen did most of the work to make it happen. He made some money on it too! But it is never enough corn. We love it so. In the end, the worms took over and we didn’t have as much as we had hoped. [...]
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Sweet Corn
Posted in Food preparation, Freshly picked on 07/29/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Summer meals usually include one (or ten) tomatoes
Posted in Food preparation on 07/20/2009 | 4 Comments »
We eat seasonally and don’t put up a lot of food, so by the time a vegetable or fruit’s season rolls round again, we are very anxious to reconnect. This is why we can stand to eat so many tomatoes for months in the summer. Plus, they are just that good. There’s simple gazpacho, with [...]
Duck’s Cosmic Kitchen
Posted in Food preparation on 07/17/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The guys were off the farm and joyfully waiting to be served many courses of good local food. It was a good time. Last night, Nicolas was invited to speak at Duck’s Cosmic Kitchen as part of a series of local-only meals that locavore, Virginia Dupree, has been organizing for three years, with Duck’s help. [...]
Roasting Vegetables
Posted in Food preparation, Freshly picked, tagged asparagus, beets, carrots, garlic, okra, potatoes, roasting on 04/26/2009 | 1 Comment »
Except for during the dog days of summer, roasting is my favorite way to prepare many of our vegetables. Pictured above are a mixture of beets, baby turnips (so sweet! This is the one we fight over), garlic, onions, potatoes and carrots. I’ll include red peppers and eggplant when they are in season. We also [...]
Collards, asparagus and escarole – by Persephone
Posted in Food preparation, tagged asparagus, collards, escarole on 04/09/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I intended to post several recipes here this week, as my video camera charger had gone missing, but we have been happily occupied at the farm with visiting nephews and nieces and fort building. So, I am posting a friend’s recipes which (truth be told) are much better than mine anyway. Here is a link [...]
Salad
Posted in Food preparation, Freshly picked on 03/31/2009 | 3 Comments »
These baby arugula, red leaf and green lettuces left the green house a while ago and are now being picked from the high tunnels for spring salad mixes. We love salad with just a vinaigrette. But often we also add some radishes, some baby turnips (my children’s favorite vegetable in a salad), and whatever else [...]
Chicken Stock
Posted in Food preparation on 03/23/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight we are having chicken stock (I’ll turn it into chicken soup with noodles) that was made with one of the roosters that Nicolas killed last month. We use the stock recipe from Sally Fallon’s cookbook, Nourishing Traditions, based on the principles of the Weston Price diet. It’s like most other stock recipes I’ve ever [...]
