Tag: Food

Field to Feast: Recipe Recap

Field to Feast: Recipe Recap

  A recap of the seasons best recipes August is when the farm season heads into top gear at breakneck speed.   Summer is in full swing, and with it a multitude of veggies are ready for harvest.  By the end of the month, we'll have melons and early squashes ready, and customers will start asking for parsnips and Brussels sprouts. I realized that it was "that time of year" when Amy caught me at market last Saturday and asked, "when do things start to slow down?" "Thanksgiving." It dawned on me just what a long stretch of time that...Read More
Send a Friend (or two) a Box o’ Cookies!

Send a Friend (or two) a Box o’ Cookies!

I want to take this opportunity to send huge thanks to all of my friends for sharing my FarmGirl Facebook page and recommending my recipes and site to your friends and family.  As a promotion, I recently offered a dozen cookies to "Like" number 250 and the person who referred her. It didn't take long before those Facebook numbers climbed (YAY!) and two dozen Salted Cashew-Toffee-Chocolate Chip cookies were shipped yesterday.  They stack like a dream in a wide-mouth canning jar, which can then be boxed, safely cradled in packing material.  Have you tried packing in popped popcorn?  It works...Read More

Sorry, Charlie

Sometimes tuna just doesn't cut it.  I mean, sure... it was great when your mom made you a tuna salad sandwich on white toast when you were home {faking being} sick and were cuddled up on the couch drinking tea and watching Phil Donohue. What?  You didn't fake being sick?  I had a cot with my name on it in the nurse's office at school.  Gym class was to be avoided at all costs. That one episode of Little House on the Prairie when Walnut Grove had an outbreak of typhoid?  I started checking my temperature hourly.   And when...Read More
Leprechaun Kisses

Leprechaun Kisses

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! I'm keeping today's post short and sweet and fat-free.  I'm guessing your holiday - because we're all a wee bit Irish on Saint Patty's Day, aren't we? - will include lots of Guinness, corned beef and cabbage and soda bread.  As such, I thought a light dessert like Leprechaun Kisses would put the finishing touches on a day of indulgence.  Enjoy! Leprechaun Kisses 1/2 cup egg whites 1 t vanilla extract 1/2 t mint extract 1/2 t cream of tartar 1 cup sugar green food coloring white chocolate, about 4 ounces, melted green nonpareil 'sprinkles' Preheat...Read More
Pulling Pigtails, plus Gluten-Free Lemon Cornmeal Cookies

Pulling Pigtails, plus Gluten-Free Lemon Cornmeal Cookies

Last week I had to take my baby boy to the optometrist.  His pediatrician told me several months back that his vision screening was 'borderline'. Now I've got a Madonna earworm. And my kid has glasses. I kinda figured as much, considering I've worn glasses since first grade.  They were pink and little and oh, so cute.  His are fancy Adidas frames and he looks adorable.  Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks so, either. He got off the bus in a sour mood the other day.  Sometimes I take my time and treat him gently to coax it...Read More
Baby, It’s COLD Outside!

Baby, It’s COLD Outside!

So warm up that kitchen with a simmering pot of classic beef stew... Says the girl who, up until about a year ago, didn't eat beef.  Occasionally I'd eat pork, rarely chicken, always bacon (does that count?).  Then something clicked.  Perhaps it was having a very persuasive man sitting across from me at a restaurant table holding up a fork with a hopeful glimmer in his eye.  "Don't you want to try some?  It's DELICIOUS!" (more…)
Hello, Sweetheart

Hello, Sweetheart

The Boy was up before me this morning.  As I staggered out into the living room clutching my head ('tis migraine season at the farm), he asked, "are we up late today?" I chuckled (as best I could, considering), "nope, why do you ask?  The sun is different today, right?" "Yeah!  That's it!" Yes, my dear boy, spring is on its merry way, and not a moment too soon.  It hasn't been much of a winter in terms of bad weather, really, but it's been ANNOYING!  I don't think there's any other way to put it...  And like most everyone...Read More
Jumping on the Bandwagon

Jumping on the Bandwagon

I don't care about the Super Bowl. I don't know which teams are playing. In fact, I will not even watch it until the last quarter, and that is only if my kid turns it on. But I concede.  The Super Bowl is as good a reason as any to have a bunch of friends over for food and fun.  However (and I will forever hear Marissa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny,  "howev-uh, in 19-sixty-faw the correct ignition timing would be faw degrees be-faw top dead cent-uh."),  Super Bowl snacks should not be limited to wings, sliders and nachos.  Don't...Read More
Back to Basics: Chicken Stock

Back to Basics: Chicken Stock

We all know how badly Hurricane Sandy devastated our area. For once I was glad the media  hyped it to death. Many communities were close to 100% evacuated and countless lives were saved because of it.  Having survived Hurricane Irene and tropical storm Lee and the resulting power outages and floods, I know that advance warning and preparation take some of the pain and suffering out of an event like that. My first thought after hearing that Sandy would impact the Northeast was, "Oh, dear GOD, no.  Not another flood." Then, I cried. Then, I gathered supplies.  I shopped for...Read More

Missing… but still in action.

Get a load of this... Yes, that's a frog. It's a frog in a pint-sized deli container. It's a frog that I found hiding behind the window fan in my son's room Friday night. I went to close the window because the forecast was for rain the next day when I was at market.  Bleary eyed and ready for sleep, I go in and remove the fan from the window, only to find this THING attached to the screen on the INSIDE! I screamed, but just a little.  Once I caught my breath, I raced around trying to find SOMETHING...Read More