Spinach and Ricotta Pasta Rolls
These pasta bundles are essentially lasagna rolled up on its side, rather than laid flat. They’re fun and easy, for a change of pace. The small amount of goat cheese mixed into the filling offers
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Pasta with Spinach, Broccoli and English Peas
Fava Beans with Spinach, Lemon and Parmesan
Serve these beans on toasted baguette, tossed with pasta for a main course, or folded into cooked rice for a tasty side dish. A vegetable peeler works well to shave the Parmesan.
Israeli Couscous Salad with Spinach, Pistachios and Lemon
This light, spring salad finds inspiration in the flavors of the Middle East. Israeli couscous is a round, pasta-like product — you’ll find it with dried grains and legumes at many grocery stores.
Fresh Pappardelle with Spinach and Lemon
We’re fortunate to have access to some great fresh pasta (when we don’t have time to make our own). Santa Cruz Pasta Factory makes a vegan version that works for my egg-free husband. This dish
Digging for Recipes
This week’s post is for those new to Freshness Farms and Four Cooking Together (FCT for short), and anyone else searching for recipes on our website. If you didn’t already know, Four Cooking
Lemon Lift
If you’re wondering what to do with the lemons in this week’s farm share beyond squeezing into a pitcher of water, know that these sleek yellow orbs are among the most useful tools in the kitchen.
Caldo Verde
Leaf lovers are grateful to kale and its current rock star status—it’s the darling of restaurant chefs and home cooks, food blogs and magazine spreads. This jaw-exercising leaf has single handedly
Late Summer’s Nightshades
With its long, sun-filled days and warm temperatures, one of the great pleasures of late summer is the pepper and tomato explosion ignited in the garden. Both are members of the sun-loving nightshade
A Sneaky Salad
Anyone who’s prepared meals for a picky eater knows the challenge. All the more so when the cook involved possesses an adventurous palate, at odds with the hesitance. We cherish our children
Mother Nature’s Packaging
These days we’re well-versed in frozen peas. That’s how they come—in look-alike plastic sacks, stacked, with a blast of frosty air, behind glass freezer-case doors—perfectly prepped for
Still Stirring
As promised my fellow food bloggers and I are still stirring away (in case you missed yesterday’s post, this week I’m cooking and writing with six middle school students). Today we were treated
Dinner on a Shoestring
With tax preparations in the works and budget sequestration in the news, the logical extension into my kitchen is a column devoted to thrifty cooking. And even if shaving a few dollars off the grocery
Welcome Back!
If you haven’t already renewed your Freshness Farms family farm share, now is a great time. This week marks our first delivery of the season and includes celery root, beets, carrots (all three
Roasted Tomatoes and Onions with Polenta
This week we welcome another guest writer, Becca Velasco—a young professional who loves cooking, but is often short on time, faced with the demands of work. Becca looks for simple recipes that translate
A Jar to the Rescue
This blog is about real food. The kind we stir up with the fresh produce we receive each week from Freshness Farms, lovingly tend in our backyard gardens, and seek out at the local farmers’ market.
Starring Roots
Carrots always rank high on any veggie-oriented greatest hits list—most popular to grow in the garden; best for weight loss; favorite veggie to eat raw; healthiest snack on the run; and so on. If there
A Meal for Mom
You might be thinking about Mother’s Day—what to do for that special woman, the one who fed (or feeds) you, bandaged the skinned knees, laughed at the goofy jokes and attended every one of the
Resuscitating the Salad
Everyone knows we should eat salad. It’s the perfect vehicle for getting loads of healthy produce into our bodies. Salad can translate to fewer calories and saturated fat, plus more fiber, vitamins
Taking Care of Mother
This week is a perfect time to think about Mom. It’s her day on Sunday, April 22. No, I’m not talking about the ladies that raised us. I’m talking about the big, round one. The one whose
Tools in the Kitchen
I often remind my electronics-appreciating husband that I’m not a gadget person. Strategically stated, as he’s poised on the brink of another early-adoptive purchase. If I’m not careful, there’ll
Sautéed Freshness…
Today’s post is the first in an occasional series of articles exploring basic cooking technique, with step-by-step guidance and tips. Today, we focus on how to sauté. If there were a Hall-of-Fame for
Toss Over a New Leaf
“Rule 22: Eat mostly plants, especially leaves” —Michael Pollan in Food Rules It’s no secret we ought to be eating loads of leafy greens. These days the message would be tough to miss, unless
Easy Chinese-style Noodles
Our youngest whipped these yummy noodles up today. It’s her mid-winter break, so there’s extra time for cooking together. Her inspiration was a sauce found in Honest Pretzels by Molly Katzen — but
Easy Ravioli with Chard and Fresh Ricotta Filling
(6 servings) Making pasta by hand is one of our favorite family activities, but when we’re short on time and have a hankering for fresh ravioli we turn to an easy shortcut: prepared wonton skins. You’ll
Spring planting – the sequel…
If you’ve been a Freshness Farms participant since last summer, you may recall my musings on tomato gardening. We ended the season with sweet, juicy Mortgage Lifter tomatoes, but the path to producing
Falling for Fennel
“What’s that bulbous vegetable that looks like pregnant celery with giant feather stalks?” – Anonymous CSA member Perhaps you’ve also been wondering about the funny looking bulb that came
The Joy of Cooking from a farm bag…
More than 13 years ago our family entered the wonderful (and sometimes wild) world of Community Supported Agriculture, complete with its weekly ritual farm bag delivery. Back in 1997, a shipment straight
Mushroom Ragu
This recipe comes from Alice Water’s The Art of Simple Food, one of the most used reference cookbooks in our kitchen. This book contains a wealth of basic culinary information, and classic tried
What we’re cooking this week…
Sadly we’re getting to the end of the summer tomato season, so make sure you get every bit of goodness out of the wonderful heirloom fruit we received this week. For ideas, check out the recipes in