Category

Food, Farm and Sustainability

Date: 22 Nov 2013

Comment: 2

Tag: CSA, healthy food, recipes, winter squash

Sri Lankan Butternut Curry

Butternut squash has been a staple in my kitchen for years, decades, even, I’ve used butternut squash into soup and risotto. I’ve roasted it and steamed it and pureed it. I’ve added it to pasta and salad. I’ve used it in lieu of pumpkin in bread and pie both. It is, as you probably know, extraordinarily versatile.

Date: 20 Nov 2013

Comment: 0

Tag: CSA, healthy food, recipes, sweet potatoes

The Hampshire CSA’s youngest fans

One group that has a yearly share in the Hampshire CSA is Hampshire's Early Learning Center. Each week, children come to collect the share--if you've ever wondered why there are tiny shopping carts in residence at the CSA barn, here's your answer! Casie Smith, the Early Learning Center's director, sent along some photos of her charges enjoying their share. Here's what she has to say.

Date: 15 Nov 2013

Comment: 1

Tag: carrots, CSA, healthy food, recipes

Carrot Salad, Two Ways

Carrots are another stalwart of the CSA share--there at the beginning and there at the end, there to be weighed out weekly in 2 pound increments. Unless you keep on top of them, the carrots have a way of multiplying in your refrigerator, and when you go to look for something, you find three or four identical bags, each holding 2 pounds of carrots of varying degrees of freshness.

Date: 09 Nov 2013

Comment: 1

Tag: baked goods, beets, CSA, recipes

Beets in the most unexpected places

Beets are another vegetable that hang around for the length of CSA season. You may use your beets in salads or soups. You may pickle your beets, shred your beets, roast your beets. But I'd wager that you probably haven't yet used your beets in chocolate cake. It's time for that to change.

Date: 31 Oct 2013

Comment: 6

Tag: CSA, healthy food, kale, leeks, recipes

Be More Cheerful; Eat More Kale

First things first, on this last day of October: Yay Red Sox!! And Happy (Hampshire) Halloween! It's only too bad that the weather outside is not in tune with the festive celebrations we should be having today. The weather is cooperating, though, with the recipe I'm going to post. Damp, chilly weather makes soup almost an imperative.

Date: 25 Oct 2013

Comment: 2

Tag: broccoli rabe, CSA, healthy food, recipes

Broccoli Rabe, Potato and Rosemary Pizza

I have to admit that before last week, I was a broccoli rabe neophyte. I’d heard of it but never eaten it. That has now changed, and I’m glad.

Date: 18 Oct 2013

Comment: 2

Tag: baked goods, CSA, healthy food, recipes, sweet potatoes

Spectacular Sweet Potatoes

First things first. The sweet potatoes that Farmer Nancy Hanson and her crew have grown this year are fabulous.Truly delicious. If you haven’t done so yet, go home and roast some of the sweet potatoes in your share and eat them as they are–or with butter or goat cheese or salt or whatever else you might like atop a spectacular sweet potato.

Date: 11 Oct 2013

Comment: 0

Tag: chard, CSA, healthy food, recipes, winter squash

Pasta with Roasted Winter Squash and Greens

October is the time when blogging along with the CSA gets tricky. I look at the list that Farmer Nancy puts out on Facebook and wonder whether I can possibly make a mustard green-green tomato-kohlrabi-sweet potato casserole, or some such, just to use as many vegetables as possible. Alas, no. Each week, it's a choice.

Date: 02 Oct 2013

Comment: 0

Tag: CSA, healthy food, leeks, recipes, winter squash

Roasted Winter Squash and Leek Soup

There are two things that are making me believe that fall is really here, even if the weather outside doesn't really feel like it. One is that my calendar now says October. The other is that winter squash are now plentiful at the Hampshire CSA and in our corner of the world in general.

Date: 01 Oct 2013

Comment: 0

And the winner is . . .

Jeff Schmittlein, Systems Support Specialist for the School of Natural Science. (For those curious–or in need of a way to pick a name out of a hat electronically–I used the handy Pick at Random website.) Jeff, your book is in the CSA barn for you to pick up. And to everyone else who commented, thanks! Please keep reading and commenting. Back tomorrow with another post, this one on winter squash!

Date: 29 Sep 2013

Comment: 3

Tag: broccoli, CSA, peppers, recipes, tomatoes

Roasted broccoli/Romesco sauce mix and match

Today's post is a mix and match in multiple ways. There are two recipes that can be eaten together or separately, which seems fitting for a post on two different aspects of fall vegetables. The broccoli carries with it the hint of cooler weather, while the Romesco sauce uses the last of the late summer produce--roasted red peppers and Roma tomatoes.

Date: 24 Sep 2013

Comment: 0

Final Vegetable Literacy Giveaway Reminder

First, thanks to all who have commented so far and thus entered the Vegetable Literacy Giveaway. In the spirit of inclusivity, we're going to extend the deadline for the giveaway a final time. You have until Monday, September 30 to comment on any post on the blog. We'll announce the winner on Tuesday, October 1.

Date: 21 Sep 2013

Comment: 4

Tag: chard, CSA, healthy food, recipes

On the Many Fine Qualities of Chard

In recent years, chard has become my go-to green. Don't get me wrong--I love spinach as much as the next (spinach-loving) person. But spinach's season is brief--just a few short weeks in spring and fall for the fresh stuff, and the rest of the time you're either spinach-less or reduced to bagged spinach from the grocery or even frozen in a pinch.

Date: 18 Sep 2013

Comment: 4

Deborah Madison/Vegetable Literacy Reminder!

Just a quick reminder that Deborah Madison will be speaking at the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley tonight at 7 p.m. Madison is the author of ten cookbooks, including the Greens Cookbook, The Savory Way, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, Local Flavors, and, most recently, Vegetable Literacy.

Date: 16 Sep 2013

Comment: 1

Tag: CSA, healthy food, recipes, tomatoes

The President’s Gazpacho!

We're delighted to welcome Hampshire President Jonathan Lash to the blog with our very first guest post. President Lash has offered us his gazpacho recipe so that we can continue to enjoy these last brief weeks of tomato season.

Date: 11 Sep 2013

Comment: 8

Tag: CSA, eggplant, Hampshire College, healthy food, recipes, tomatoes

Deborah Madison’s Eggplant Gratin; and Vegetable Literacy giveaway!

I wanted to start with something exciting happening in our very valley next week. The wonderful chef and writer Deborah Madison is going to be at the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley next Wednesday, September 18, for a discussion and book signing of her gorgeous new book, Vegetable Literacy.

Date: 06 Sep 2013

Comment: 1

Tag: CSA, healthy food, recipes, tomatoes

Tomato Season

Greetings, and Welcome to Hampshire’s new CSA blog! I’m a longtime writer, gardener and (vegetarian) home cook, and I’m excited to share stories and recipes with you as the CSA moves week to week, from the bounty of late summer to the onset of winter.

Date: 06 Sep 2013

Comment: 0

Tag: Local Food

Local Food, Global Interest

Arriving on the Hampshire College campus to take part in the summer 2013 Food, Farm and Sustainability Institute, Enli Li and Mengxiao Wang found themselves immersed in a new culture.

1 2 3 45