Spanakopita & Festive Veggie Recipes

By rebeccatalbotDecember 10, 2015April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Leafy Greens, Recipes

Holidays are a time of feasting. But that doesn’t have to mean we forget about vegetables for the whole month of December. With other holiday meals, there’s much more leeway than with Thanksgiving meals, which, let’s face it, just wouldn’t be complete without the buttery rolls, stuffing, and pie. As you’re planning your holiday menu, here are some…

Tapenade Verte ou Noire

By recipesNovember 29, 2015April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Recipes

Fancy it up with your very own homemade Tapenade Verte ou Noire! It’s very easy yet impressive and elegant.

Guacamole Two Ways

By recipesNovember 7, 2015April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Recipes

Our guacamole fresca is a chunky guac that uses tons of fresh ingredients. If you’re short on time, you can opt for our regular guacamole recipe. You can make it in the food processor. It’s also great if you don’t have a jalapeño handy!

Fried Green Tomatoes with Remoulade Sauce

By recipesNovember 1, 2015April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Recipes, Tomatoes

Had to rescue some tomatoes before a frost or a storm? Don’t let them go to waste! Fry them up and serve them with Andi Wolff’s amazing remoulade sauce!

Maryland Crab Dip

By chucksmithOctober 28, 2015April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Recipes

From Wolff’s own chef, Chuck Smith!

KITCHEN COPY:SWISS CHARD

By chucksmithOctober 21, 2015April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Cooking Methods, Featured, Kitchen Copy, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal local ingredients, locally grown produce, peach salsa, recipes, swiss chard, vegetables, vegetarian

Has it ever happened to you that two things enter your life at the same time, and forever after it’s nearly impossible to think of one without also thinking of the other? It happened to me about twelve years ago. It happened to me with Swiss chard, and my wife. I can’t cook Swiss chard without also…

Seriously Guilt-free Veggie Dip

By recipesAugust 27, 2015April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Recipes

For anyone who loves a creamy veggie dip, here’s an honest-to-goodness, protein-packed, healthy version of it. Even your kids will like it! Perfect with every in-season veggie right now, like green and colored peppers, cucumbers, broccoli, and carrots! Guilt-free, and easy too! Use a blender for that perfect silky-smooth consistency.

Cucumber Watermelon Salsa

By recipesJune 3, 2015April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Recipes, Summer Produce

Crunchy cucumbers—especially when you can get them locally-grown and fresh-picked!—make a great base for a salsa. Here, they are paired with ripe, sweet watermelon for a unique cucumber watermelon salsa that tastes great with grilled seafood!

KITCHEN COPY: SCANDALOUS STRING BEANS

By chucksmithJune 3, 2015April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Cooking Methods, Featured, Kitchen Copy, Locally Grown, Photos, Recipes, Seasonal, Summer Produce basil, green beans, local ingredients, locally grown produce, recipes, vegetarian

Whether whores first invented puttanesca is no concern of mine. The sauce is bright, flavorful, pungent, and goes with just about anything you can scrounge together. Including the ubiquitous green bean. Literally translated, alla puttanesca means “in the style of a prostitute.” It is a culinary legend whose origins (like so many inventions) are clouded with speculation. There are various…

KITCHEN COPY: THE WHOLE EGG

By chucksmithMay 6, 2015April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Cooking Methods, Featured, Kitchen Copy, Recipes, Vendors eggs, local ingredients, recipes

For someone who grew up eating uniformly bleach-white supermarket eggs, all natural, free range eggs were a revelation. My wife used to run a farm, and it was there that I first encountered them. It was on that farm where I witnessed firsthand the obvious benefits of allowing laying hens the opportunity to range freely. And it was also on that farm where I first tasted…

KITCHEN COPY: EASILY ELEGANT LEEKS

By chucksmithMarch 25, 2015April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Holiday, Recipes, Root Vegetables, Seasonal beets, Easter, leek recipe, winter produce

Leeks have come a long way in my life since 2001. It’s been an uphill battle for this once neglected ingredient. Unlike onions and garlic, the leek is more intimidating. It seems almost alien when pulled from a grocery bag and placed on a cutting-board at home. I remember a cashier quizzically examining a bunch of…

Honey Mustard Baked Brie Appetizer

By rachelvanduzerDecember 26, 2014April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Apples, Featured, Recipes

Christmas has come and gone, but the season of celebration isn’t quite over yet. In less than a week, we’ll be ringing in 2015. Can you believe it? My favorite part of the Christmas season is the many excuses to get together with good friends over delicious food. The week before Christmas, I cooked for…

Hot Corn Dip with Crispy Tortilla Chips: A Wolff Family Favorite

By rebeccatalbotOctober 23, 2014April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Recipes

Autumn is a time to gather. Summer’s heat lets up but the days remain sunny and energizing. Crisp air calls us outside. The harvest produces some of its tastiest fruits and vegetables. And we know that since winter will soon make us want to hibernate, buried under fleece blankets to match the blankets of snow,…

Smokey Eggplant Vinete & Lessons from the Garden

By rachelvanduzerSeptember 11, 2014April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Recipes, Summer Produce

I like to think that I am a great cook and a good gardener, but there is much more to these two tasks than meets the eye. This week I will be harvesting the last of the squash, tomatoes, peppers and herbs from my first-ever solo garden. I will miss harvesting armloads of tomatoes, handfuls…

Lingering over Christmas Appetizers

By rebeccatalbotDecember 19, 2013April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Holiday, Recipes

During the Christmas season, we enjoy the presence of people we love. Talking, laughing, listening, enjoying comfortable silences–all of this is what it means to enjoy each others’ presence at Christmastime. It is a time to rest, relax, and linger over laughter, conversation, and appetizers. That means, of course, that for some of the people…

Fresh Indian Summer Salsa is Savvy in September

By JenniferHetrickSeptember 4, 2013April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Beverages, Cooking Methods, Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Holiday, Locally Grown, Peaches, Recipes, Seasonal, Summer Produce, Tomatoes

As a fitting segue in saying adieu to the heat of August while saying hello to September, a Fresh Indian Summer Salsa crafted from ingredients at Wolff’s Apple House is a great food-geared introduction to this autumn. The recipe, put together by Wolff’s marketing consultant, Rachel VanDuzer, incorporates not only tomatoes but peaches, corn and…

The Zeal of Zesty Watermelon Gazpacho

By JenniferHetrickJuly 25, 2013April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal, Summer Produce, Tomatoes

As the face behind Global Vertical Farms based in Glenmoore, Chester County, Janice Kelsey and her whole food nutrition approaches keep summer recipes easily in the future: think Zesty Watermelon Gazpacho. “I prefer to use a smaller seedless watermelon,” Kelsey says about this recipe. “They’re easier to handle and a lot less waste.” And Wolff’s…

Heirloom Tomatoes Make for Great Salsa

By JenniferHetrickJuly 11, 2013April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Cooking Methods, Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Locally Grown, Recipes, Root Vegetables, Seasonal, Summer Produce, Tomatoes

Jillian Prout of Prout’s Jollyview Farm in the Oley Valley of Berks County enjoys the heirloom tomatoes she grows, but it might be fair to say she enjoys a good salsa from them even more. Heirloom tomatoes, known as heritage tomatoes in the U.K., are the ancient tomatoes of those who came decades and…

Party On

By rebeccatalbotFebruary 3, 2012November 2, 2017 Appetizers, Featured appetizers, entertaining, game day, mango, parties, tomato

For me, as a bookish writer whose idea of exercise is a long walk or a slow jog, the big game this weekend isn’t about sports. It isn’t even about the commercials or half-time. I’m not gonna lie. It’s about the food. It’s about being with friends, too, but friendship is best enjoyed around a…

Celebrate Peach Season with Local Peach Salsa & Local Peaches

By rebeccatalbotJuly 15, 2011November 2, 2017 Appetizers, Featured, Locally Grown, Peaches, Prepared Foods, Summer Produce fresh salsa, peach salsa, peaches

It’s peach season right now at Wolff’s Apple House! Beginning in early July, our store manager, Brian Bednarz, begins to hand-select the best New Jersey peaches available from local farms. New Jersey is famous for its peach orchards, and since it’s warmer earlier there, the earliest peaches you’ll find in our produce bins come from…