city people vs farmers... I can talk about both of these varieties of humans because I was a city girl and now I'm a farmer... so I am well versed in both worlds (according to myself)... city people think they are smarter than farmers... farmers think city people have no common sense... city people like... Continue Reading →
greek salad, chicken prosciutto roll-ups and peach seed cobbler
back to school today and harvest is chugging along... although it froze to minus 4 last night and probably ended most of my garden that I've worked so hard on all year... it's 2020 - that's not going to make me cry... (hoping the farmer covered my tomatoes like I reminded him to about 7... Continue Reading →
carrot and ginger salad, fried chicken with lemon and capers, cherry cheesecake sheet pan dessert
garden carrots - is there anything better? in my opinion only tomatoes... this salad is all about the dressing... and it is a strange dressing so I was nervous to send it out but I wanted to try it myself... this dressing is so delicious... not exactly sure what the farmers thought but I could... Continue Reading →
green bean tomato salad, ravioli bake and chocolate zucchini coconut cake
it is 10:15 pm... my daughter just went to bed and I am faced with folding laundry that I put on my bed to sabotage myself before I go to sleep... I'm not expecting the farmer(s) to be home until midnight and the house is quiet... I have ran out of things to watch on... Continue Reading →
taco quinoa salad, greek fried chicken with parsnip puree and new potatoe wedges and beet cake
oh my word, here we go... harvest 2020... some absolutely gorgeous hot weather (the farmer told me that it felt like the hottest day he has ever combined on... not fun to work in but great for drying out crops) has us able to get combining the peas we truly feel like a 'family farm'... Continue Reading →
listening to teacher
new shoes... birthday shoes... these beauties might only ever see my treadmill... I'm not fast enough or pretty enough to be wearing them but here we are... what inspired you, Catherine, to make such a healthy meal and run in your fast shoes and shave your legs? was it the super sexy farmer you've been... Continue Reading →
I wanna hug with somebody
I was walking with a friend the other evening... as we were saying our good-bye's, a strange feeling came over me... I have been close friends with this person for over twenty years now and this was a new feeling I had never experienced around her... I found my arms raising, my heart pulling me... Continue Reading →
48 days of cooking in quarantine to get excited to cook for seeding
seeding 2020 is upon us... and never would I have thought that I would have been quarantined at home for 48 days before I had to take a meal to the field... nothing like cooking for your family for that long to get you in the mood to cook for farmers... the shelves at the grocery... Continue Reading →
goose for dinner
goose hunting... the farmer has been up at 5 am a few mornings this week to head out and hide in this little shelter and attempt to shoot the poor geese flying overhead... a rule we have around here is that you must eat what you shoot... so I used my father-in-law's recipe for what... Continue Reading →