Tag: recipe
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My First Time Hosting Easter Dinner
Fourteen years ago, Stephen was going through chemo for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma and was not allowed to travel, even for Easter. It was my family’s turn to celebrate Easter with us, so they came to us, and that is how I ended up hosting Easter Dinner for the first time! I decided to mix…
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Eat Like A Farmer
“When the chores were done and he came back with Father and Royal to the warm kitchen, breakfast was almost ready. How good it smelled! Mother was frying pancakes, and the big blue platter, keeping hot on the stove’s hearth, was full of plump brown sausage cakes in their brown gravy. Almanzo washed as quickly…
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Garlic Salve for Coughs
When our third child was a toddler, we found that he always got a croupy cough when he had a cold. Croupy coughs are very scary sounding! Sometime during those years, my sister gave me a set of herbal remedy books by Rachel Weaver. One of those, Be Your Own Doctor, had a recipe for…
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Callaloo and Lion’s Mane Steak
This recipe was shared with us by Barry, one of our farmers market customers. Lion’s Mane mushrooms cut into patties about 1/4th inch thick Half a bag of Callaloo – bag is the size you sell One large garlic clove, sliced thin Your favorite olive oil – I used Spanish due to its sweeter flavor…
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Cranberry Hibiscus Shortbread
This recipe made enough dough for an 11”x17” jelly roll pan! So you can feel free to half or even quarter this recipe and it will still make a decent amount of shortbread! Also, you can lessen or increase the amount of Cranberry Hibiscus, as the amount of leaves you use will make the flavor more or less…
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Chilled Sungold Soup
based on a recipe from The Tomato Festival Cookbook by Lawrence Davis-Hollander serves 6 Soup Ingredients: Relish Ingredients: Directions: Variations: You don’t have to chill the soup if you don’t have time! It goes great with grilled cheese! You can also leave out the garnish, or add a different garnish! Garlic can also be used…
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Easy Ratatouille Casserole
Ratatouille started as a simple peasant dish. It can be as complex as you like, but it can also be quite easy! We’ve been making the easy version this summer! If you want to make it heartier, try adding a layer of sauteed mushrooms, ground lamb, or shredded chicken–from Good Soil Farm of course! 😉…
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My Tuesday Veggie Dinner Challenge
As you may have noticed, I try to use my mushrooms from the Mushroom Add-On from Davis-Highlands Orchard & Farm on Tuesday nights. This is partly because, you guessed it, I am trying to showcase the mushrooms of the week in case anyone wants to buy some extra on Thursday! But it’s also because it…
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Killer Cure Tea
As cold and flu season takes off into full swing, I thought I’d share one of our favorite home remedies. This is our go-to tea for our family for colds and flus. It works wonders! I first found this tea recipe in a book called Be Your Own Doctor by Rachel Weaver, Master Herbalist. While…
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Making Basil Pesto to Freeze
This is a great way to preserve basil when you have a lot! We love getting the fresh basil flavor in our recipes in the winter! You can also add garlic with the basil, olive oil, and salt. I use this for homemade pesto pizza sauce without adding cheese since there is already so much…