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July 1st, 2011 · Click here to add a comment · cooking

Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs founded Food 52, a crowdsourced cooking project that consists of a recipe sharing website, recipe contests, and (eventually) a cookbook to be published by HarperCollins.

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Roast one chicken, eat well for days.

May 14th, 2011 · Click here to add a comment · cooking, FYI

Guidance from food blog food52, shows how you can get 3 meals, starting by roasting a chicken, beautifully illustrated with photos. Food52 is written by New York Times food reporter Amanda Hesser, co-author of The Essential New York Times Cookbook and her co-author Merrill Stubbs, who is food editor at Herb Quarterly. Herb Quarterly? These [...]

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How about that blue squash?

November 18th, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · Erin, FYI

It is really a pumpkin. Sweet orange flesh inside. Read more at squash types. Mixed gold & red turnips Clean the skins and peel off the scruffy parts. Then slice and sautee in butter with a couple sliced shallots. Great flavor combo and reduces the strength of the turnip flavor while bringing out the spiciness. [...]

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Kohlrabi

June 23rd, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · Erin, share

June 23, 2010: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: Beets with tops (cook these like other greens), herb, Blueberries, potatoes, zucchini and 2 of these 3: Chinese cabbage or Swiss chard or kohlrabi, (see photo of kohlrabi above). There are many kinds of Chinese cabbage and all are good for stir fry or slaw. [...]

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Life with lemon grass

October 28th, 2009 · Click to read comment · Jen

October 28, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: Sweet potatoes, peppers, white potatoes, salad mix, lemon grass herb (just the thing for soup or tea in this wet cold weather), radishes, broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, and apples. Recipes: Life with Lemon Grass Lemon grass – yet another CSA adventure! Those who have never cooked [...]

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Stuff to stuff

October 7th, 2009 · Click here to add a comment · Jen

October 7, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: apples, sweet potatoes, peppers, winter squash, salad, eggplant, herb, and cabbage. Recipes: Get Stuffed! The cool Fall weather is an invitation for baking: filling the house with warm enticing smells for hours on end. Magically, this week’s veggie box is stuffed full of stuff that [...]

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Romancing the squash

July 29th, 2009 · Click here to add a comment · Jen

July 22, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: sweet corn, leeks, beans, zucchini, cucumbers, peaches, salad mix (and, Farmer Pam says, maybe peppers, if they can get them picked!) A little slice of life on the farm from Farmer Pam: It is a steamy day here – we are so hoping that those [...]

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Strawberries, Garlic Scapes and more

June 10th, 2009 · Click to read comment · Jen

June 10, 2009 – This week’s featured fruits and vegetables include kale, salad or head lettuce, herb, garlic scapes, onions, peas, and strawberries. Farmer Pam was still picking as this post was being written, so there may be extra goodies too – but she’s been dealing with harvesting in incessant rain, so then again there [...]

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Veggies frozen in the fields

November 24th, 2008 · Click here to add a comment · Jen

November 23, 2008 This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are apples, spring onions, cabbage, carrots, onions, sweet potatoes, lettuce, radishes and winter squash. Farmer Pam had a few words to say about the ups and downs of the current season, providing another little window into farming life: This sudden 20 degree weather sure was a [...]

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Farmers Markets

October 19th, 2008 · Click to read comment · Jen

The week of October 20, 2008 we got parsnips, kohlrabi (the green thing that tastes like a turnip), radishes, salad greens, lettuce, sweet peppers, winter squash and golden apples. Welcome Jen Milewski, a CSA member who has volunteered to write the weekly blog post. Her contributions will appear here on Sunday evenings. Thank you, Jen. [...]

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