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I'm a bit late in sharing this recipe with you all.  I had made this several weeks ago when eggplants were still coming in my CSA share, but finishing up the post somehow fell through the cracks. Better late than never I suppose! Hummus has always been my go to homemade dip, but now that it is pretty much as ubiquitous as salsa, I do tire of it after a while. While baba ganoush is a

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Have I mentioned that I like pie? No, that's not quite accurate...I LOVE pie!! By far my favorite desert, and of all the great pies out there, apple is top of the list for me. What can I say, I'm all about the classics! So you can imagine that when the local apples started to arrive that I was immediately asking my wife to bake me one. Then the other day I get home from work and the house

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Apples Sugar Pumpkin Watermelon Bok Choy Green Beans Leeks Radishes Kale Potatoes Fresh Apple Cider As the season changes into fall, my thoughts on what to cook are drifting to warmer and heartier meals. This week's share certainly will help that along. Leeks and potatoes? Sounds like soup to me! Fresh apples means its pie time, and the sugar pumpkin, well I suppose that could be made in

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This is one of those recipes, that now having made it for the first time, I can't believe that I've never done is before. Enchiladas were always something for the local Mexican restaurant to handle and it never really occurred to me that it would be such a simple thing to make them as home. Of course, any recipe can be made complicated, and I've sure there are ways of making enchiladas that

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I had promised myself that I'd try to do something interesting with the tomatillos, but after another busy week that included a three day business trip to Minnesota, I needed to get these used before they went bad, so I phoned it in with possibly the most common tomatillo recipe out there; salsa verde. Salsa verde is made using a different technique than other salsas. Instead of dicing up

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Fall weather is descending fast around here marking the start of my favorite part of the year. This stretch from mid-September through to the end of the year brings so much of what I love about food and cooking. The big holiday feasts are always the main events of the season, but there are so many smaller events and activities before those that keep me plenty busy. Today’s activity comes from

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Peaches Tomatoes Beans (organic) Arugula (organic) Lettuce Tomatillos Potatoes Apples Swiss Chard (organic) Onions Collards Spinach Okay! Back to it with week 20, and boy am I glad my schedule is back to normal because I would have been sad to miss this share. All the leafy greens are back! We got so used to having 1 or 2 nice fresh greens every week back in the spring and have missed them

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The last week has been one of the busiest that I've had in a long time. Work was crazy busy, requiring longer hours than usual, so long in fact that I wasn't able to pick up my CSA share for the week. Luckily the farm offers a great option for when you can't pick up, where they will donate your share to the local food bank, so I was more than happy to let my share for the week go to those who

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So way back when I picked up my first share at the farm, there was a fresh mint plant included. I planted it in the herb garden, and while a few leaved were plucked here and there for various recipes, it has pretty much been left to its own devices since then. Much like what happens when a small child is left unattended for too long, it started to cause trouble. I went outside a few days

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Peaches Arugula Tomatoes Green Beans Cantaloupe Lettuce (organic) Watermelon Corn Bell Peppers Radishes Onion I think I'm finally starting to see the farm's growing cycles at work in how the contents of the shares have changed over the last few months. Early on, greens and radishes were a constant, but then disappeared, presumably because there weren't any more to pick. Now that there have

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This past Labor Day weekend ended up being a stay at home event for me and the family. We had some hopes of a weekend getaway, but never got our act together on planning. Regardless, the weather was pretty crummy and I was recovering from a head cold so it was probably for the best that we didn't stray from the house much. Despite these downers, my wife saw this as an opportunity to tackle a

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With summer coming to a close and the abundant sweet corn with it, I wanted to make up for the corn ice cream debacle and share something with you all that I would actually make again. This time I thought I should stick with something a bit more mainstream as far as corn recipes go. Chowder came to mind right away because, like the corn, seafood chowders are something that I associate with

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If you are into food blogs, I imagine that you have at some point spent time on Smitten Kitchen. It's one of more well known out there, and a recent post there for rice stuffed tomatoes caught my attention. However, with an abundance of bell peppers coming in over the last few weeks, as well as the pepper plants in my garden starting to produce (yes, despite the fact that I'm getting a

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Doughnut Peaches Eggplant Tomatoes Onions (red and yellow) Cantaloupe Lettuce (organic) Zucchini Sweet Corn Green Bell Peppers Hot Peppers Scallions Cucumber Summer's bounty rolls on, and while the variety of vegetables in the share has stayed pretty much the same for the last few weeks, the sheer versatility of all these items keep this from being any problem. Remember in the first weeks

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The farm has been quite generous with peaches over the last few weeks, with recent shares containing 8 peaches every time. This has presented a bit of a challenge in that the peaches are not yet ripe when I get them, and inevitably they will all ripen at the same time resulting in a bit of a scramble for us to get them all used before they start going bad. Not that I'm really complaining about

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So I had touched on this, my favorite way of making tomato sauce about a month ago, but it was just one component of a larger recipe and now that fresh tomatoes are in hand, I thought it was time to give this simple yet delicious recipe its own spotlight. Once fresh summer tomatoes are in abundance, this sauce will make weekly appearances at our table.  Plum tomatoes are ideal for this

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Onions, 2 lb ($1.98)Peaches, 2 lb 10 oz ($3.38)Green beans, 12 oz ($2.24)Mint, 1 bunch ($1.99)White eggplant, 1 lb ($2.49)Cantaloupe, 2 lb ($2.99)Radish, 1 bunch ($1.50)Scallion, 1 bunch ($0.99)Plum tomato, 1 lb 10 oz ($4.42)Cilantro, 2 bunches ($2.98)Corn, 8 ears ($4.80)Kale, 1 bunch ($1.49) Total share value = $31.25 Getting a little melon this week was a nice surprise. I had assumed

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What a day today! We've had veggies from the CSA slowly building up over the last couple weeks and I decided to put some serious effort to use them up before more comes in this week. First, the remaining cucumbers went into another batch of bread and butter pickles (the first batch of which turned out fantastically by the way). My next target was 3 pounds of yellow squash that I used to make a

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Bell peppers from the CSA seem to have joined the squash in an attempt to overtake my refrigerator these past few weeks, and I don't know about you, but tossing a few slices on my salads is definitely not keeping them in check. To make some headway, I'm enlisting the classic combination of sausage with peppers and onions. Most of my experience with this meal has been at street fairs and the like

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Blueberries, 1 pt ($1.99) Cucumber, 2 ($1.32) Doughnut peaches, 13 oz ($2.42) Eggplant, 1 lb 11 oz ($2.17) Corn, 3 ears ($0.99) Dill, 1 bunch ($1.49) Bell peppers, 1 lb 2 oz ($1.67) Pristine apples, 14 oz ($1.74) Carrots, 1 bunch ($2.00) Yellow squash, 14 oz ($2.61) Radish, 1 bunch ($1.29) Total Share Value = $19.69 First apples of the season for me! The pristine apples here are a very

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A galette is a French term that describes a round, flat pastry that is typically rustic and somewhat free form in its design. For me, the I would translate to simply mean "easy pie". One crust, no pie plate and no fussy filling, just fresh fruit and a bit of sugar. My wife makes galettes more often than regular pies for this reason that its a lot less work and just as delicious. Galettes are

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My last attempt at pickling was a reasonable success; great flavor, but less than desirable texture. A bit of post pickling research revealed that the method I used (lacto-fermentation) will typically result in a softer texture. I prefer my pickles to have more crunch to them, and the sweeter "bread and butter" variety are a favorite of mine, so that's what I'm trying to make this time. The

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To be honest, I'm not really sure if this should be called a salad or a slaw. The cabbage and carrots are shredded like in a slaw, but the cucumber and bell peppers are chopped like in a salad. Maybe a slawlad? Well, whatever you want to call this, it was very good and making the sesame dressing from scratch really made the difference. A much more pure sesame flavor than what you get with the

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When I was a kid, sweet summer corn was always such a treat because it tasted like dessert and yet there it was on my dinner plate! To this day, I look forward to the few weeks each year when its REALLY good and eat it as often as I can. I see that same enjoyment from my daughter as well when we give her a piece of an ear to chew on (once we finally convinced her to try it that is...). So if we

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Blueberries, 1 pt ($1.99) Peaches, 2 lbs ($3.98) White eggplant, 7 oz ($1.08) Yellow squash, 2 lb 10 oz ($7.85) Cucumber, 3 ($2.49) Red onion, 7 oz ($0.43) Hot peppers, 2 oz ($0.25) Bell peppers, 1 lb ($2.99) Red cabbage, 3 lb 7 oz ($2.76) Cilantro, 1 bunch ($1.49) Arugula, organic, 6 oz ($3.50) Swiss chard, organic, 6 oz ($1.12) Carrot bunch, 13 oz ($1.99) Red leaf lettuce, 9 oz ($1.09)

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