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¼ cup sugar ¼ cup water 2 pounds tomatoes, preferably yellow or orange, cored and chopped. There’s nothing wrong with red lemonade either. ½ cup fresh lemon juice 3 cups ice water lemon wedges for garnish In a sauce pan, combine sugar and water and bring to a simmer, stirring […]

TOMATO LEMONADE


Cook’s Country – June 2015 Aioli as done here is great on any fried vegetable. Nice on roasted meat, and also as a spread. ½ cup mayonnaise – pref. Hellman’s 11/2 teaspoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon hot sauce – I like Frank’s best 1 small garlic clove minced salt and […]

Aioli


Now that all the potatoes are out of the ground, and about half of the winter squash has been harvested, we’re doing a lot of cleaning up. We’re ordered all the winter cover crops seed which will be delivered around the middle of September. So in the mean time we’re […]

News from the Farm – August 22, 2015




The Culinary Institute of America – Grilling – 8 servings 4 teaspoons of salt, or to taste 24 small firm fleshed potatoes, 1 inch in diameter, less if using bigger potatoes 16 skewers – wood or metal ½ cup cooking oil ½ teaspoon black pepper 1 cup Curried Onion Dipping […]

GRILLED POTATO SKEWERS WITH CURRIED ONION DIPPING SAUCE


James Villas – The Glory of Southern Cooking 6 to 8 servings – A favorite ay our house this time of year 2 Pounds of green beans – not thin French style ones ½ teaspoon salt Freshly ground black pepper to taste 1 dozen or so small red or Yukon […]

GREEN BEANS AND POTATOES



Bill Smith – Crook’s Corner – Chapel Hill NC – serves 4 to 6 Bill says, “ There are three kinds of people in the world. One kind believes that there is only one recipe for potato salad. Probably the one that Mama used. Another can’t wait to try a […]

POTATO SALAD


Julia Child – Bon Appetit – serves two or four 30 minutes from start to finish Julia loved this simple side dish, especially with roast chicken. Good for breakfast, too. 1 pound Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and cut into ½ inch pieces – any firm potato will work Salt 2 […]

HASH BROWNS


Food and Wine – 8 servings 3 lb. Yukon Gold potatoes halved or quartered according to their size ½ cup olive oil Kosher salt and fresh ground pepper ¾ cup flat leaf parsley 4 Oz. finely grated parmesan 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 1teaspoon […]

PARMESAN-ROASTED POTATOES



Well, we had a pretty big day on Monday digging potatoes. With some extra sets of hands we were able to dig 5 beds in about two hours: 65 30-35# boxes! The last 2 beds cam out on Thursday. What a great feeling to have them all out! The next […]

News from the Farm – August 15, 2015


Red & Heirloom Tomatoes! Mountain Magic Tomatoes Red & Yellow Onions 2# Cantaloupe Bell & Italian Pepper Green Butter Lettuce (mini head) Carrots Red Beets Honey!

What’s in Your Box – August 15, 2015


There’s some good news and some not so good news. There’s sweet corn in your boxes this week! It’s pretty darn good. However, we went to pick it Tuesday morning and the beds were ravaged by raccoons! They probably ate more than half the crop. I wanted to cry a […]

News from the Farm – August 8, 2015