Arugula Pesto
The spiciness of arugula makes this delicious, peppery pesto. Use this pesto to add some zing to your basic pasta meal. You can also try it tossed with roasted potatoes or steamed veggies. Store the extra pesto in either the fridge or freezer. If you plan to freeze it, don’t add the cheese until after [...]
Pound Cake with Strawberry Pepper Sauce
Enjoy this with this week’s strawberries! It has a great flavor… the pepper and balsamic vinegar give it a slight kick. I posted this on facebook last year, but it bears repeating, because it is so delicious! Ingredients: 3 T. brown sugar 1 ½ t. balsamic vinegar 1/8 t. black pepper 6 oz. fresh or [...]
Homemade Salad Dressing Base
During the first few weeks of our CSA boxes, you can be sure to receive lots of lettuce. Here are some recipes for how to make your own homemade dressings, which I think you’ll find taste a whole lot better than the ones you buy at the store! Refrigerate the dressing base in an airtight [...]
Montana Writes June 21st…
June 21, 2011 by corinna96
Filed under Montana's Diary
Hi everyone! Did you enjoy those strawberries last week? You’ll be getting MORE this week. Yum! Corinna made some delicious strawberry jam with her share last week, and they’ve already eaten 2 pints of it! The apricots and cherries are coming next week. Even the fruit orchards around here are “late” harvest-wise. Our fields are starting [...]
What’s a Garlic Scape?
This week in your box you are receiving a wonderful delicacy known as “garlic scapes.” These appear only once in your box all season long. A scape is the curling “flower” of the garlic plant. As the garlic grows, it shoots out a scape that looks like a curlicue. If left alone, it will eventually [...]
Sylvania Pick Up Site TIME Pushed Back to 5:30 PM
We are pushing back the pick up time for our JFS site in Sylvania to 5:30-7 PM for the rest of the season. We tried last week to get there by 5 PM, but we couldn’t make it on time, and things got hectic as people waited for us to unload. So to make things [...]
Homemade Vinaigrette Dressings
In the early weeks of the our CSA, you’ll be getting lots of lettuce. Here are some vinaigrette dressings you can make from scratch, which are much better-tasting than anything you can get in a bottle. These will store for several days in your fridge. Here’s a secret to keep your greens from gettint too [...]
Blood Spots in My Eggs?
Every now and then you may crack open one of your farm fresh eggs and find a little red spot. You may be wondering, “What is this spot and is it safe to eat? And why don’t I see this in the eggs I buy at the store?” Don’t be alarmed. There is no health [...]
June 13, 2011
June 14, 2011 by corinna96
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Hi everyone! Well… Josiah Bench was born this past week on June 5 at 12:27 PM at Bay Park Hospital. That was a week earlier than “planned.” But it worked out for the best. It sure has made week one of harvest a lot less stressful. Josiah is doing great. I hear he’s a great [...]
Uncooked Strawberry Jam Recipe
Here’s one way to use some of the strawberries you’ll be getting in your fruit share this week. 2 c. crushed strawberries 4 c. sugar 1 package powdered pectin 3/4 c. water Sort and wash fully ripe berries. Drain. Remove caps and stems; crush berries. Place berries in a large mixing bowl. Add sugar, mix [...]
