Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

My Farm Share Week 11

Well folks, we are at the half way mark for our farm shares. The time is really flying by and I am having a lot of fun working with the awesome variety of vegetables that we receive each week. If you are not yet a member of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), I [...]

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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

My Farm Share Week 10 Wrap-Up

Good Morning, Dear Reader. I had a great time “playing” with my food this week. Luckily, my mother never taught me not to play with my food… what fun I would miss out on!
The photo below is an awesome salad I made with the 2 larger cucumbers (seeded), grape [...]

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Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Local vs. Organic

I have a question… Which is the best way to buy: Local or Organic?
There are many ways to debate this question and tons of research to support each side, I’m sure. Buying local products reduces the amount of fossil fuel burned in transporting the products to us, thereby reducing the emission of [...]

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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

My Farm Share Week 10

Good Morning All! I am really excited today as we received a very colorful box of vegetables this morning… a bunch of spinach (I love spinach!), a bunch of yellow and white Swiss chard, a few sprigs of Italian parsley, 4 cucumbers, 4 red tomatoes, a bag of grape tomatoes, 3 cubanelle peppers (1 [...]

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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

My Farm Share Week 9 Comes To An End

For some reason, I was much more efficient in getting our vegetables eaten this week. Usually, I am frantically trying to find new and exciting ways to use the vegetables and I just barely manage to get it done in time for this post. One trick I’ve learned is to cook the vegetables [...]

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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

My Farm Share Week 9

Firstly, please accept my apologies for posting so late.  I like to post by 11:00AM but I was very busy with work today and then once I got home, my blog server/host was down.  Ugh.
Onto more pleasant thoughts…
Today, we received a really beautiful variety of vegetables: 4 bell peppers (2 green, 1 purple and 1light [...]

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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

My Farm Share Week 8 in Review

This week has been a whirlwind and I must admit I am a bit behind in using all of my vegetables. I am going to finish them up tonight though. It was a challenge getting all of the vegetables eaten in 6 day’s time this week as I have been super busy with [...]

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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

My Farm Share Week 8

Holy Moly, I can not believe it has already been 8 weeks… the time has really flown by! My husband (the sweetest man in the world) told me last night that he is really impressed with my ability to creatively use all of the vegetables in the short span of 6-7 days. I [...]

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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

My Farm Share Week 7 Summary

This week, the flavors and aromas coming from my kitchen were all over the map. From the American Deep South to Latin America to India.
The pole beans I received this week were a bit tough so I braised them into submission with tomatoes, onions and garlic.

This dish reminds me of my Great-Grandma Hollingsworth, from [...]

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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

My Farm Share Week 7

I am up super early this morning as my husband had an early flight to catch. Therefore, I will not be able to post any photos of this week’s farm share box as my husband (a.k.a. my awesome photographer) has the camera with him.
This week, we received a bag of mixed baby greens (I [...]

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