More Than A Side Dish

Please join us for a Fresh Fork Market favorite event.  The focus of this event is to demonstrate easy and healthy vegetarian cooking recipes.  These techniques will allow you to utilize the abundance of vegetables in your CSA in the heart of the summer!  The class will be led by Chef Robin Blair, owner of…

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Vitamix & Fresh Fork Market 2013

Do you own a Vitamix or dream of having one?  I am a proud owner and love the power, efficiency, and ease use of my machine. We are now very proud to offer an exclusive Fresh Fork Market and Vitamix workshop, focused entirely on using your Vitamix to utilize seasonal, local ingredients for smoothies, raw…

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Threshing and Family Farm Day 2013

I’m so excited to announce this event.  For Saturday, August 3th, we’ll have a day full of fun and education at Wholesome Valley Farm in the heart of Amish country.     The focus of the day’s events will be a horse drawn oats reaping (harvest) and steam powered threshing (removing the seed from the stalk).…

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What is a Mortar and Pestle and how is it used?

What is a Mortar and Pestle and how is it used? This handy kitchen utensil is the predecessor of the food processor.  It’s a must have for Italian and Mediterranean influenced food.  Place garlic, herbs, pepper flakes in the bowl—the mortar—and mash and mash and mash these ingredients together with the Pestle. Purest insist that…

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Summer Share 2013 – Week 6

Sweet Pea Linguine, Beets, Yogurt, Raspberries, and Cherries I hope everyone enjoyed last week’s bag.  This week we have a nice surprise as well.  Earlier in June as the peas were blooming, we slowly started sending pea tendrils and extra peas to Ohio City Pasta.  They ground the product and turned it into a paste…

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What can I do with small spring onions?

Trim the base or root of the onion very carefully maintaining enough of the root to hold the layers together.  Remove the stem or top.  Peel the very thin outer layer.  It is important the onion does not “deconstruct” from this trimming and peeling. Place the onions in a heavy bottom pan and cover with…

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Fava Beans

Fava beans will not win the beauty pageant with their appearance.  Their large, soft and often spotted pods make them appear as though they were picked last week and have been left to wither in the basket.  Not true. Fava beans require some busy work to prepare them for cooking.  Have faith.  The resulting product…

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How to Properly Cook a Sausage

I cringe and clinch my teeth when I go home and see my dad grill a sausage.  He takes it from fresh meat in the refrigerator to a hot grill and cooks it all the way through.  The final product – usually a dry sausage. There are generally two types of sausages – fresh and…

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What about substitutions?

Just to let you know, we don’t really like to do substitutions.  We only do so, when the farmers short us, the product does not live up to our standards (which we don’t know until we pick up) or something similar.  We try to stick as much to the published contents as possible.  That being…

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