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Valley Bounty Recipes

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

Valley Bounty: Maple Syrup

March 4, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Maple, Valley Bounty Recipes

We are squarely in the thick of maple sugaring season. Even though local maple syrup is available all year round, there’s something exciting about enjoying[...]

Valley Bounty: Kimchi

February 25, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Cabbage, Valley Bounty Recipes

I am far from an authoritative source on kimchi. I didn’t even have a really clear sense of what kimchi was until a few years[...]

Valley Bounty: Borscht

February 18, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Beets, Valley Bounty Recipes

When I was little we lived in a suburb in western Connecticut not far outside New York City, and we’d often take the train in[...]

Valley Bounty: Popcorn

February 11, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Popcorn, Valley Bounty Recipes

Seeing as we’re squarely within the part of the year where snow days are most likely to strike, it pays to have some popcorn on[...]

Valley Bounty: Sweet Potatoes

February 4, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Sweet Potatoes, Valley Bounty Recipes

Honestly, at this point, I probably eat a serving of sweet potatoes at least once a day, every day. Something about the way they straddle[...]

Valley Bounty: DIY Cheese

January 28, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Cheese, Valley Bounty Recipes

In all likelihood, my home cheesemaking experiments are never going to offer me the quality or variety of curdled concoctions that our local dairies and[...]

Valley Bounty: Homebrewing Beer

January 21, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Beer, Valley Bounty Recipes

I’d wager that virtually everyone reading this knows at least one person who’s into homebrewing beer. I have a hunch that the growth of the[...]

Valley Bounty: Lettuce

January 14, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Lettuce, Valley Bounty Recipes

Considering how ubiquitous lettuce is as a part of our diets, we don’t really think that hard about it all that often. At the same[...]

Valley Bounty: Garlic

January 7, 2017 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Garlic, Valley Bounty Recipes

Here we are, in the brave new world of 2017. With the surreal and acrimonious vestiges of 2016 still lingering, I’m sure many of us[...]

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’[...]

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