Okay, it's true confessions time. I don't like parsnips... well, at least, I thought I didn't. Turns out I'm just not keen on their "parsnippy" flavor when they're a-la-carte. We've started getting parsnips in the boxes again, and here I was on the verge of admitting defeat... but instead I decided to give them another [...]
CSA member Anna W. writes, "What are those 'bugs' that I find in vegetables like broccoli and now the Brussels sprouts? Are they aphids? Are they edible? The thought just grosses me out so I end up throwing away a lot of healthful vegetables. Can I wash/rinse them off, and how?" Folks, Anna brings up [...]
Before I get started on this week's blog, I want to run an idea by you members. Do any of you guys ever just have questions about how to deal with something in your box? Something you get or have gotten that confounds you or that maybe you don't even know what it is, and [...]
Hi everybody! Welcome to 2013, and to my new Debbie's Kitchen 2.0 blog -- folks at the farm say members have been missing me, so I'm coming back. For those of you who don't know me, my goal is to educate and entertain, while at the same time helping you to become comfortable using "what's [...]
This is not your typical sweet corn -- it will be somewhat starchier than the commercial sweet corn, but it is beautiful(!) and delicious, sez Tom, and can be prepared more or less the same as any other corn-on-the-cob. I didn't get any "advance" of this corn so that I might "test" and give you [...]
Ever heard of Edible Monterey Bay? It's one of 70 magazines in the award-winning and beloved Edible Communities family (www.ediblecommunities.com). The Edibles span North America, but each is locally owned and run. Edible Monterey Bay's mission is to celebrate the local food cultures of (specifically) the Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey Counties, season by [...]
[box]CSA member and friend of the farm Laurel Pavesi asked me to write more often for the newsletter, so Laurel, this is for you! And of course everybody else too. The story is, in my usual goings-on about the kitchen recently there were a few things I made up using "what's in the box" that [...]
This is more or less a mash-up of a potato salad and a bean salad. Since I had both (potatoes and beans) I thought hm, I don't see why I couldn't make just one salad instead of two. The process is ultimately simple: you cook the potatoes, cook the green beans, combine with other ingredients, [...]
Long-time CSA member and LEFDP board member Tera Martin produced this wonderful short movie about the Discovery Program. Please take a moment and enjoy!
Are you in love with Companion Bakeshop's delicious sourdough breads? Ever wanted to learn how to make bread like that? Real sourdough? Now that Erin has her own brick-oven bakery (right there on Mission St. in West Santa Cruz - easy to find), she offers workshops to teach others the fine craft of baking. And [...]
