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The quality of the potatoes from our farm share this year has been outstanding, especially the waxy, creamy red potatoes. Perfect for potato salads. We prefer vinegar based salads vs. mayonnaise, so I generally use a combination of mustard, vinegar, oil, dill, etc. Yesterday I had a beauty of an anaheim chile on hand and [...]

It’s taken me awhile to warm up to kohlrabi. I’ve cooked it a few times in the past year, always because it’s been part of the farm share. If there is such a thing as a mental “image” of what something tastes like, I still don’t really have one for kohlrabi, but I now have [...]

Picked up our Chestnut Farms cooler last week. It’s like being in a meat-of-the-month club. This months share included: 1 rack of lamb 4 pork chops 4 beef short ribs 1 lb lamb sausage 1 lb lamb stew meat 2 lbs ground beef 4 lbs chicken breasts Update: one more item I forgot — 1 [...]

This is a really simple recipe that’s help me recently get over the intimidation factor of working with whole chickens. I’ve done this twice now; once with a kosher bird from Empire and more recently with a whole chicken from my January Meat CSA share. I’ll let you guess which one was tastier. What you [...]

We picked up our 1st Chestnut Farm CSA meat share yesterday. 10 lbs of neatly wrapped yummy in a little red Playmate cooler. The share contained: 1 whole chicken 2 lamb shoulder chops 4 country-style pork ribs 1 lb lamb stew meat 2 lbs ground beef 2 beef rib steaks

We’re on the 2nd winter share from our new CSA. As you might imagine, it’s been lots of potatoes, turnips, squash, carrots and parsnips. Excellent dishes made from this include: Braised turnips & greens Veggie Shepherd’s Pie Roasted Potato & Squash Enchiladas Carrot Slaw Beef Stew & Chicken Stew (in the crockpot) Veggie Stir-fry The [...]