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Recipes and Cooking Tips

In addition to the recipes listed below, check out which farms and local food bloggers CISA staff read for inspiration.

Valley Bounty: Corn

July 28, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Corn, Valley Bounty Recipes

The United States produces more corn than any other nation on the planet, growing well over 300 million tons of corn annually (close to a[...]

Cooking with locally grown foods help support farms and the economy

July 26, 2018 Posted in: CISA News, Press Room, Recipes and Cooking Tips, Milk, Raspberries

Western Mass News, July 26, 2018. We're at the height of the growing season and today, we're supporting our local community by cooking with some[...]

Valley Bounty: Tomatoes

July 21, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Tomatoes, Valley Bounty Recipes

Few foods besides the tomato can claim the distinction of having been at the center of a Supreme Court decision; in the 1893 case Nix[...]

Valley Bounty: Cherries

July 14, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Cherries, Valley Bounty Recipes

Though there are cherries that are native to North America (Prunus serotine, also known as “wild cherry” or “black cherry”), the kinds we are most[...]

Valley Bounty: Gooseberries

July 7, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Valley Bounty Recipes

They don’t honk as far as I can tell, and I’ve never seen any flying in a “V” formation. How exactly gooseberries wound up with[...]

Valley Bounty: Raspberries

June 28, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Raspberries, Valley Bounty Recipes

We can all remember “blowing raspberries” from our childhoods I’m sure, or perhaps for some of us more recently than that. It’s the faux-flatulent noise[...]

Valley Bounty: Snap Peas

June 23, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Peas, Valley Bounty Recipes

Relative to much of the other produce we’re accustomed to seeing at the farmers’ market or in our farm share, sugar snap peas, or simply[...]

Valley Bounty: Cucumbers

June 16, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Cucumbers, Valley Bounty Recipes

In his travel journal of the Scottish highlands, 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson declared that, “[i]t has been a common saying of physicians in[...]

Valley Bounty: Cilantro

June 9, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Cilantro, Valley Bounty Recipes

The fruit of the coriander plant (though we often call them “coriander seeds”, they are actually fruit, botanically speaking) have a long history in human[...]

Valley Bounty: Strawberries

June 2, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Strawberries, Valley Bounty Recipes

Strawberries, despite the name and their location in most grocery stores, are technically not berries. They are botanically considered “accessory fruit”; unlike “true” berries, which[...]

Valley Bounty: Radishes

May 26, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Radishes, Valley Bounty Recipes

The peppery, slightly-pungent flavor most of us associate with brightly-colored spring radishes is provided by a compound called allyl isothiocyanate, which is also found in[...]

Valley Bounty: Chives

May 19, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Valley Bounty Recipes

What is a chive, anyway? Is it an herb, or… a vegetable, maybe? They’re herbs, it turns out. I don’t think I’ve ever really given[...]

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