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Valley Bounty Recipes

Archive of CISA’s Valley Bounty columns that focused on recipes and cooking tips.

Valley Bounty: Onions

February 3, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Onions, Valley Bounty Recipes

The most widely cultivated member of the genus Allium (which also includes garlic, shallots, leeks, and chives), the common onion (Allium cepa) is a bit[...]

Valley Bounty: Cabbage

January 27, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Cabbage, Valley Bounty Recipes

Okay, I know that cabbage isn’t exactly the most attention-grabbing subject. It’s one of those vegetables that many people formed bad associations with in childhood[...]

Valley Bounty: Pork

January 20, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Pork, Valley Bounty Recipes

Pork is the most widely eaten meat on the planet; according to the UN, it accounts for over a third of the meat consumed on[...]

Valley Bounty: Soup

January 13, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Seasonal Menus: Winter, Valley Bounty Recipes

We’ve been well into the clutches of “deep” winter for a few weeks now. It’s been so cold recently that I was delighted to leave[...]

Valley Bounty: Potatoes

January 6, 2018 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Potatoes, Valley Bounty Recipes

Human beings eat a lot of potatoes. They are currently the fourth-largest food crop by tonnage on the planet (after corn, wheat, and rice). USDA[...]

Valley Bounty: Honey

December 30, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Honey, Valley Bounty Recipes

Honey has got to be among the weirdest substances we are in the habit of eating regularly: it’s the only food that is produced by[...]

Valley Bounty: Beets

December 23, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Beets, Valley Bounty Recipes

I, by no means, keep a strictly clean diet, especially at this time of year; something about the holidays seems to raise our collective threshold[...]

Valley Bounty: Duck

December 16, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Eggs, Valley Bounty Recipes

No fowl can compare with chicken in sheer quantity consumed in the American diet—in the last few years it has surpassed even beef in how[...]

Valley Bounty: Bone Broth

December 9, 2017 Posted in: Beef, Recipes and Cooking Tips, Chicken, Turkey, Valley Bounty Recipes

For a long time I used the words “stock” and “broth” interchangeably, until I had the historical definitions explained to me: “broth” is, generally speaking,[...]

Valley Bounty: Local Holiday Party

December 2, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Seasonal Menus: Winter, Valley Bounty Recipes

Welcome to the odd stretch of time between mid-November and early January that we refer to broadly with the euphemism, “The Holidays”. Whatever your personal[...]

Valley Bounty: Delicata Squash

November 25, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Valley Bounty Recipes, Winter Squash

Although delicata squash is considered a winter squash in agricultural and culinary terms, it is actually a variety of the species Cucurbita pepo and is[...]

Valley Bounty: Turkey

November 18, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Turkey, Valley Bounty Recipes

Ben Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national symbol of the United States, writing that it was, “though a little vain & silly, a[...]

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