by Flora Caputo | Jun 21, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
KOHLRABI: The Sputnik Vegetable In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite. It was called Sputnik, and it looked a lot like a kohlrabi.Now, with so few people familiar with kohlrabi, the vegetable is often described as looking a lot like...
by Flora Caputo | Jun 20, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Summer means easy and fresh. I love also just throwing on my Crocs, grabbing my kitchen shears and running out the back door to roam around my garden to see what I can snip up to bring in for cooking. All the recent rain has made my yard verdant and prolific. Some...
by Flora Caputo | Jun 4, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Hey followers, its this week’s Farm Fresh Now installment, and this week it’s all about broccoli. My daughter used to eat broccoli as finger food when she was a little toddler. She would eat the tops and leave the stems in an organized circle...
by Flora Caputo | May 31, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
I am still trying to make my way through a box of Grape-Nuts I had to buy for my scout troop’s cooking badge work. I ended up making these little yummies this weekend, and they were unbelievable. The nuttiness of the brown sugar and the grains matched with the...
by Flora Caputo | May 30, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Article © Terra BrockmanPhoto © Cara CummingsPEAS: Sugar Snap and Snow There is nothing quite so graceful as trellised pea plants in full swing. And nothing quite so tasteful as a crunchy sugar snap pea eaten straight off the vine. And nothing that so...
by Flora Caputo | May 28, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Out of all the herbs that are growing happily in our garden this spring, tarragon is by far the most aggressive. It is already a foot and half tall, with long-leafed tendrils that sway in the breeze. I was inspired by it this weekend. It seemed to call to...
