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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: Sauerkraut

December 31, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Cabbage, Pickles, Valley Bounty Recipes

Though we often think of sauerkraut as a German food, its roots lie far to the east in China, where laborers building the Great Wall[...]

Valley Bounty: Butternut Squash

December 24, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Valley Bounty Recipes, Winter Squash

I went out to dinner with a friend last week, and the restaurant featured pickled local butternut squash on their specials board. I was pretty[...]

Valley Bounty: Pot Roast

December 17, 2016 Posted in: Beef, Recipes and Cooking Tips, Valley Bounty Recipes

Some of our most iconic New England foods began their culinary life as working class dishes: roasted potatoes have long been a staple of farmers’[...]

Valley Bounty: Parsnips

December 10, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Parsnips, Valley Bounty Recipes

We are now entering the perfect time of year for eating parsnips; as temperatures plummet and the ground begins to freeze, parsnips begin converting their[...]

Valley Bounty: Mushrooms

December 3, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Mushrooms, Valley Bounty Recipes

Mushrooms have inhabited the woods of New England since long before human beings made their way here across the Bering Land Bridge, but it wasn’t[...]

Valley Bounty: Leftover Turkey

November 26, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Turkey, Valley Bounty Recipes

Many of us emerging from our tryptophan comas yesterday (or maybe today, if you really went for it on Thanksgiving) were no doubt confronted by[...]

Valley Bounty: Turnips

November 19, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Turnips, Valley Bounty Recipes

Until recently, I thought the turnip was in the awkward position of being neither a potato nor a radish. A potato I know what to[...]

Valley Bounty: Cauliflower

November 12, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Cauliflower, Valley Bounty Recipes

If you made a Venn diagram with popular anxiety about carbohydrates in one circle and general reluctance to give up our favorite carb-rich foods in[...]

Valley Bounty: Swiss Chard

November 5, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Swiss Chard, Valley Bounty Recipes

The colorful leafy green we most commonly know as Swiss chard goes by a variety of aliases around the world and throughout history, including “silverbeet”,[...]

Valley Bounty: Pumpkins

October 29, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Pumpkin, Valley Bounty Recipes, Winter Squash

For us 21st Century Americans, the pumpkin has a few different roles in our culture: besides being a stand-in for all things autumnal, the pumpkin[...]

Valley Bounty: Brussels Sprouts

October 22, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Brussels Sprouts, Valley Bounty Recipes

I love Brussels sprouts. I am unapologetic about this. They look like alien eggs (which is very cool, of course), they’re delicious when roasted or[...]

Valley Bounty: Spaghetti Squash

October 15, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Valley Bounty Recipes, Winter Squash

I did not really know anything about spaghetti squash for most of my life, other than that it had a funny name. Then, somehow, seemingly[...]

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