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Valley Bounty Recipes

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

Valley Bounty: Basil

July 25, 2015 Posted in: Basil, Recipes and Cooking Tips, Valley Bounty Recipes

Basil is a quintessential summer ingredient, providing big flavor in easy ways: topping slabs of tomato and fresh mozzarella, or chopped and mixed with butter[...]

Valley Bounty: Raspberries

July 18, 2015 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Raspberries, Valley Bounty Recipes

Soft and luscious raspberries are a perfect item to purchase fresh-picked, not transported hundreds of miles. Find them at farmers’ markets, farmstands, in your CSA[...]

Valley Bounty: Broccolini

July 11, 2015 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Broccolini, Valley Bounty Recipes

Broccolini is a relatively recent cross of broccoli and kai-lan, a leafy Asian relative, and it looks a little bit like an elegant, elongated broccoli.[...]

Valley Bounty: Edible Flowers

July 4, 2015 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Flowers, Valley Bounty Recipes

Add some visual fireworks to your salads or risottos with edible flowers from local farms. These can be fiery—nasturtium flowers have a peppery bite, and[...]

Valley Bounty: Sugar Snap Peas

June 27, 2015 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Peas, Valley Bounty Recipes

Sugar snap peas are a recent and widely successful addition to the pea family. Introduced in the late 70s, these plump, sweet edible pod peas[...]

Valley Bounty: Make Your Own Cheese

June 20, 2015 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Cheese, Valley Bounty Recipes

Basic cheeses are easy to make, and combine the wonder of a science experiment with the pleasures of eating. Making cheese can be as simple[...]

Valley Bounty: Strawberries

June 13, 2015 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Strawberries, Valley Bounty Recipes

Strawberries lead the parade of sweet and juicy summer fruit. And they’re here! Don’t skimp on the strawberry desserts—or the local whipped cream on top—but[...]

Valley Bounty: Harukei Turnips

June 6, 2015 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Turnips, Valley Bounty Recipes

Bunches of sweet, crisp hakurei turnips are showing up at markets and farm stands. For me, they demonstrate another advantage to eating seasonally: exposure to[...]

Valley Bounty: Green Garlic

May 30, 2015 Posted in: Garlic, Valley Bounty Recipes

Many of us did not grow up eating garlic in its several forms—in my house, for example, we knew it best as powder. Right now,[...]

Valley Bounty: Radishes

May 23, 2015 Posted in: Radishes, Valley Bounty Recipes

Spring radishes are a lovely thing, beautiful to look at and crisp and spicy on the tongue. They even have cheerful, evocative names: French Breakfast,[...]

Valley Bounty, May 16: Asparagus

May 16, 2015 Posted in: Asparagus, Valley Bounty Recipes

Count yourself lucky to live in a place where the season’s premier crop is available at dozens of roadside stands! Although as recently as 1989[...]

Valley Bounty: Rhubarb

May 9, 2015 Posted in: Rhubarb, Valley Bounty Recipes

Rhubarb’s moment in the spotlight is brief but delightful. Take a rhubarb cobbler to new heights by using local eggs and pastry flour, adding deep[...]

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