Recipe: Asparagus Quiche

Yesterday while I was at the hardware store, I struck gold when I discovered that they had local eggs for sale.  I’d been hoping to find a source for them, and it turns out there are lots!  When I got home, I told Ann (who owns the farm) about my find and she said “Oh [...]

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Recipe?: Vegetable scrap stock

I hesitate to call this a recipe because…well…it isn’t.  It’s basically a guideline of how I make my veggie stock.  I’ve been doing this for about a year and  a half now, and I’m so frustrated at myself that I didn’t start doing it earlier, because I’ve wasted a lot of money on store-bought vegetable [...]

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Recipe: Hearty Lentil Soup

One of my favorite easy dishes is Lentil Soup, and on Saturday I made a huge pot of it just to freeze.  Pete especially loves this dish.  When I read the recipe the first time, I was skeptical because Lentil Soup?  Doesn’t that sound boring? Pete said I should try it anyway, because he loves [...]

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Recipe: Beef, Potato, and Leek soup

Last night when Pete picked me up at the train station he told me that the woman who runs our CSA had called.  She asked him if we could come over and talk to her about a few things that needed fixing up around the farm.  She told him “Tell Taylor I’ve got some leeks [...]

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