RECIPE: Squash Blossom Garlic Scape Pizza

The farm season is in full swing and the eatin’ is good. I try to take something home from the field every night and sometimes it really starts to pile up in the fridges (yes fridges), but hey, I’m not complaining. Every meal is a new adventure. It’s a constant race to try and cook…

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June Food Weekends + HOW TO: Have A Perfect Picnic

We did it! We made it over the hump that is spring’s non-stop chaos as CSA veggie farmers. We only had one or two emotional breakdowns. We only cried a handful of times. And we delivered our first CSA boxes will relative ease, though without fully functional brakes. Yup, that was terrifying. The brakes need…

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25 Ways to Asparagus + RECIPE: Chili-Roasted Asparagus & Pork Fajitas

I have been asparagus-ing like crazy these last few weeks. Oh, asparagus is not a verb? Well you could have fooled me because suddenly my whole life seems to revolve around asparagus. We harvest from a small pick-your-own farm on Monday and deliver it to our restaurants in Madison on Tuesday and an even more…

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Mother’s Day/Memorial Day/Chicago Adventure

Every May, me and most of my moms decide to escape reality for a very short time and head to the big Windy city for a day or two. It’s kind of, sort of a Mother’s Day trip with three out of the four most important moms in my life. (My momma, my Carrot momma…

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Everyday is a Transplant Party in May

Where have I been? You ask. Why haven’t I been cooking up tasty rhubarb pies and crisps and cakes and making asparagus quiche for dinner and loving every single springtime morel mushroom I can get my hands on?! You ask. Well, I actually have been doing some of these things. I just haven’t been telling…

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Lately I’ve Been… + RECIPE: Polenta with Charred Asparagus

…making lots and lots of interesting vinaigrettes because then I can eat nothing but the leftover veggies in my fridge and still feel like I cooked. …eating at the Good Food cart no less than one time per week. Sometimes more. …trying to stifle the tears over my busted laptop and its unrecognizable hard drive….

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Book Review: Huckleberry + Much Overdue Brioche Pictures

It’s not often I go crazy for a cookbook. (Can you already tell that I’m lying?) Okay, let me start over. It is often that I go crazy over cookbooks. The pictures seduce me. The ideas inspire me. The enthusiasm fills my heart with so much joy. Most of the cookbooks I read are written…

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RECIPE: Mushroom Lasagna

I’m not gonna lie. Some days absolutely, completely and utterly suck. No way around it. No silver linings. No pretending that you enjoyed any part of it. Some days are just the worst. When you wake up to frozen baby plants. And then you go to the greenhouse and see droopy tomatoes. That’s a bad…

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April Things + Huckleberry’s Barley Porridge

Rainy days. Followed by perfect sunny 70 degree days. Followed by bitterly cold and windy days. First barefoot moments in the field. First dates with our first ever CSA worker shares! First bike rides of spring. So much farm productivity. So many farm conversations. An almost full CSA! Beautifully straight rows of just seeded peas…

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