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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: Zucchini

July 23, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Valley Bounty Recipes, Zucchini

I’ll admit to occasionally letting the zucchini in my farm share languish in the refrigerator, tucked in a crisper drawer or a paper bag, forgotten[...]

Blueberry Pizza with Whipped Ricotta and Caramelized Shallots

July 20, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Blueberries, Cheese, Shallots

Recipe from How Sweet It Is Yield: 1 pizza Total time: 2 hours Ingredients: purchased pizza dough (or make it fresh it you like) 1[...]

Valley Bounty: Blueberries

July 16, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Blueberries, Valley Bounty Recipes

There’s a part of me that can understand the weird, almost manic greed of the two characters in Robert Frost’s poem “Blueberries”, especially considering that[...]

Valley Bounty: Green Beans

July 9, 2016 Posted in: Beans, Recipes and Cooking Tips, Valley Bounty Recipes

Green beans are one of those vegetables that can begin to feel like a known quantity after a while; frequently featured blanched or steamed as[...]

Valley Bounty: Basil

July 2, 2016 Posted in: Basil, Recipes and Cooking Tips, Valley Bounty Recipes

Along with the sunlight persisting until close to nine o’clock and the sudden emergence of yard sales on every block, one of the surest signs[...]

Valley Bounty: Garlic Scapes

June 25, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Garlic, Valley Bounty Recipes

I have a group of friends with whom garlic scapes seemed to have attained a reverence bordering on the mythic. During the season when garlic[...]

Valley Bounty: Bok Choy

June 18, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Bok Choy, Valley Bounty Recipes

This time of year can be a bit tricky when it comes to shopping for local vegetables. Farmers’ markets and farm stands are open for[...]

Cooking With Culture: Ways that Milk Makes the Dish

June 17, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips

As they prance across Ben and Jerry’s trucks looking almost elegant in black and white, or gaze with long-lashed eyes from tourist leaflets, cows entice[...]

Valley Bounty: DIY Yogurt

June 11, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Milk, Valley Bounty Recipes, Yogurt

In honor of National Dairy Month, I’d like to turn our attention to the classic combination of milk and bacteria. Fermenting milk is older than[...]

Valley Bounty: Dill

June 4, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Dill, Valley Bounty Recipes

I learned recently that there is an expression in the Balkans that says someone “is the dill in many soups,” the way we might say[...]

Valley Bounty: Scallions

May 28, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Onions, Scallions, Valley Bounty Recipes

Sadly, the humble scallion often does not get its due. Stalwart garnish for stir-fries and Tex-Mex dishes alike, our most common applications for this trusty[...]

Valley Bounty: Rhubarb

May 21, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Rhubarb, Valley Bounty Recipes

Despite living in New England for almost my entire life, my whole knowledge of rhubarb, up until recently, consisted in knowing that it is preceded[...]

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