You guys!? We start growing things indoors in the greenhouse in a week! This is always such an exciting/frantic time of the year for us. The skies are all gray and the ground is so muddy and even though temps are sporadically jumping above 50 from time to time, we all know the real spring…
Tag: dinner
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…
Caribbean Reflections + RECIPE: Cracked Pepper Parsnip Mac & Cheese
Have you ever taken a vacation with your significant other, your parents and your younger sibling? Add in 11 days of travel, a cruise ship and 6 places you’ve never visited, and you’ll just begin to break the surface of our 2016. Yes, we attempted what many would deem (or hope?) impossible. A vacation with…
Zoning Codes + RECIPE: Orecchiette with Kale Pesto, Sausage & White Beans
Have you ever noticed how pasta just solves everything? Like honestly, all the problems of the world, washed away for 10 minutes as you bite into that perfect starchy piece of pasta. If you are lucky there’s also cheese involved and a sauce with just enough garlic. Okay, maybe a little too much garlic. Because…
Pepper Madness + RECIPE: Quinoa Stuffed Bell Peppers
I have so many peppers in my life right now. Seriously, they are taking over all four of our fridges. My husband. He loves to grow peppers. He thinks they are the most beautiful plants and loves all the different varieties, colors and heat levels. I guess I like peppers well enough. I have to…
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…
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…
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…
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….
The Leek & The Carrot 