These beautiful toasts are the happiest little snow day treat. I don’t know what it is about the first big snow fall of the season, but now that we’ve got several inches on the ground in Southern Wisconsin I’m deeply attracted to vibrant, colorful foods. I was on a brown kick for much of November…
Tag: avocado
Summer Salmon Cobb Salad
A couple weeks ago we gave the most beautiful heads of summer romaine to our CSA members and I was just giddy about it. The addition of romaine into our August CSA boxes made me feel like a whole new world of recipes had opened up– BLTs, lettuce cups, wedge salads, cobb salads, all the…
Upcoming Farm Events + RECIPE: Fall Fajitas with Avocado Edamame Mash
We’ve been working our butts off all season and party time is quickly approaching at Raleigh’s Hillside Farm. Officially, there are still 13 days until the autumn equinox, but we feel it in the air. The cool breeze. The golden light. The slowing pace in our fields. The colored peppers and abundant storage crops. The waning…
Go Mode + RECIPE: Spring Harvest Grain Salad
I always do this. I always think that May is our busiest month and I burn my candle at both ends all month long and then when June hits, I’m (not) surprisingly very tired. I tell myself it’s June and I can let off the gas a bit so I make time to rest and…
Mexico City + RECIPE: Super Simple Street Tacos
Two months ago I took the most beautiful, freeing, serendipitous, dreamy adventure I had been on in nearly a decade. On a whim (or rather on a flight deals website), my old college travel bestie Michele and I booked a vacation together after my farming season was mostly wrapped up. The entire trip budget: $700….
Vegetable Guilt + Meal Plans! + RECIPE: Avocado Bagel with Cucumber
I’ve been doing this thing this winter that I feel immensely guilty about. So I’m just going to come clean and tell you all about it. I have been buying one or two cucumbers a week since we returned from vacation in late January. As a vegetable farmer who knows the abundance of cucumbers I…
Cooking From the Pantry + RECIPE: Vegan Sweet Potato & Lentil Burgers
Spring is such a strange time of year as far as my kitchen is concerned. We may be transplanting vegetable seedlings up a storm and playing in the dirt almost daily, but it’s still too early for our farm to actually have anything for us to eat. Honestly, it’s kind of a tease. We spend our…
Winter Changes + RECIPE: Sweet Potato & Lime Rice Bowl
The last time we talked (I mean really talked, you know about something other than vacations and avocados and Christmas) seems like so long ago. My Carrot was in the midst of building a greenhouse (our first greenhouse!). I was dreaming of zoning and building codes at night and drawing up dozens of house plans…
Avocado Season + RECIPE: Butternut Squash Enchilada Stack
Perhaps my favorite part of dining in Puerto Rico was learning that even avocados have a season and, like everything in life, they taste so much better in season. The avocados in Puerto Rico were smooth and creamy. Perfectly ripe with a velvety texture and somehow, never a brown spot in sight. I was sure…
4th of July Weekend + RECIPE: Beet, Pea & Avocado Salad
Carrot parents took us to the Cave of the Mounds in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin this long holiday weekend. Caves are so cool. And kind of weird. And geological. And slippery. Then we spent a day floating. And exploring sandbars. And paddling some more. It was absolutely joyous and filled with so much sunshine. As every…
The Leek & The Carrot 