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…
Read MoreSummer 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…
Read MoreWhat 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…
Read MoreFava 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…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreWhat 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…
Read MoreSummer Share 2013 – Week 4
Sweet cherries, broccoli, peas, beets, and a special cheese This week the hot weather has really brought on the produce! In fact, this will be our first vegetarian bag of the year. And most exciting, as we usher out strawberries we are welcoming in the sweet cherries! One notable ingredient this week is a very…
Read MoreCSA Meal Planning 2013
If you are wondering what to do with your share each week, come to this class. We will discuss what comes in your bag, how to make the most of each ingredient, how to store clean and preserve each item and what items pair well together. The biggest complaint we have every week is that…
Read MoreWinter Share 2012-13 – Week 13
Lots of exciting stuff this week. I went a little out of control on the budget, but I’ll have to make that up some in the next couple bags (which are also quite exciting…although maybe a little smaller). In addition, please see below about a few very noteworthy events around Cleveland. These are not Fresh…
Read MoreFarm Fair 2013
4 Exciting Courses, Kids Games and Activities, All FREE Please join us this April for a 1-day crash course on how to plant your own garden. Each course will be taught by real farmers, both English and Amish. These producers will cover topics in four courses: Soils – understanding your soil, how to improve it,…
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