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Valley Bounty Recipes

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

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[...]

Valley Bounty: Quince

October 8, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Quince, Valley Bounty Recipes

What is a quince, anyway? If you shop at certain specialty grocers, you may have seen this weird-looking cousin of apples and pears popping up[...]

Valley Bounty: Pears

October 1, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Pears, Valley Bounty Recipes

We tend to think of pears as the also-ran fall fruit, the apple’s palatable but less absorbing relative: the Frank Stallone to the apple’s Sly,[...]

Valley Bounty: Eggplant

September 24, 2016 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Eggplant, Valley Bounty Recipes

There’s a role that players on baseball teams occasionally fill called a “utility player”, meaning that, unlike most players, they routinely play a variety of[...]

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