In Late July, Wolff’s Is Tomato City!

By recipesJuly 24, 2015June 24, 2016 Featured, Locally Grown, Summer Produce, Tomatoes

Perhaps you marveled at our huge selection of tomato plants when the weather was just warming up and local produce season had barely started. Now, in the heart of tomato season, you can feast your eyes on the magical, beautiful bounty of tomato fruits—all picked vine-ripe by local farmers! The quality and selection at this…

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…

Creamy Cabbage and Fresh Apples for the Winter

By rebeccatalbotJanuary 21, 2015April 21, 2023 Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Locally Grown, Recipes, Sides

As a child of the 1980’s, I have been familiar with cabbage from a young age. After all, as a three-year-old, what did I want more than a Cabbage Patch Kid? My great-aunt Lynne, a professional ballet dancer who wore sequined jackets and kept an eye out for trends, tracked down this hot item…

Amazing Empanadas with Local Onions and Peppers

By rebeccatalbotAugust 14, 2014April 21, 2023 Featured, Locally Grown, Main-Dishes, Recipes, Root Vegetables

I might as well mark my calendar. Every three to six months, the urge to make empanadas hits me. Usually some excuse or inspiration materializes: a friend is visiting from out of town, we’re about to watch a Spanish film or I’ve just been to Zumba and I’m still feeling the Latin rhythms. Once the…

Chicken Cacciatore: The “Hunter’s Meal”

By rebeccatalbotAugust 6, 2014April 21, 2023 Featured, Locally Grown, Main-Dishes, Recipes, Summer Produce bell peppers, bruschetta, free-range chicken

When my sister mentioned earlier this week that chicken cacciatore means “The Hunter’s Meal,” I knew I had to try making it again. I’d first tried my hand at it when I was 22, a grad student freshly uprooted from family, cooking my way through the one cookbook I trusted. Sometimes good things in life…

Rice Pudding & Ripe Rhubarb

By rebeccatalbotJune 5, 2014April 21, 2023 Desserts, Featured, Locally Grown, Recipes budget meals, desserts, gluten-free

I am pretty sure the first time I ever ate rice pudding was at camp, as a counselor, at around age 17. That the adults in charge let 17-year-olds be camp counselors is one of the mysteries of my adult life. Adult life, though, has solved one other mystery. I now know why a magical…

Frittata Time

By rebeccatalbotMay 1, 2014April 21, 2023 Featured, Locally Grown, Main-Dishes, Recipes, Seasonal bell pepper, eggs, paleo, vegetarian, vidalia onion, zucchini

I first discovered frittatas a few years ago when I needed to use up some fresh sage. Sage, with its leaves like Lamb’s-Ear, seemed fancy enough for Martha Stewart, so I turned to Martha Stewart’s Healthy Quick Cook, a treasure my aunt had given me for Christmas years earlier, and discovered a lovely sage-mushroom frittata. …

Gabbing in Garden-Speak

By JenniferHetrickApril 3, 2014April 24, 2015 Featured, Gardening Advice: Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal

Nan Reinert of Chubby Pickle Farm in Robeson Township, Berks County, is always happy to help others learn about smarter and more efficient ways to garden, knowing quite well just how stressful this therapeutic effort can become if you take on too much. “I am passionate about growing and getting people to grow,” she says…

Salads for Springtime

By rebeccatalbotMarch 27, 2014April 21, 2023 Featured, Leafy Greens, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal

It looks like March will be going out like a lamb after all, although I can’t help but think most of the lambs in the Delaware Valley will be huddled under shelters away from the rain instead of chowing down in the pasture. Sigh. It’s not too hard to sympathize with a sheep who’s been…

Make Room for Mushrooms: Mushroom-Swiss Sandwich

By rebeccatalbotJanuary 30, 2014April 21, 2023 Featured, Leafy Greens, Locally Grown, Recipes, Sandwiches kennett square, local ingredients, mushrooms, swiss

I have to admit, it’s been a long while since I’ve felt like sunbathing, and I feel like I’m running low on Vitamin D, that vitamin so renowned for strengthening bones as it helps the body absorb calcium. If you haven’t felt much like picnicking in the snow and soaking up sunshine, there’s good news…

Farm Film of Media Premieres January 16 and 17—Watermelon Magic

By JenniferHetrickJanuary 13, 2014December 3, 2015 Apples, Featured, Gardening Advice: Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs, Locally Grown, Seasonal

With much respect given to what farms are to us, director and producer Richard Power Hoffmann is proud to bring the premiere of his film Watermelon Magic to the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J. this week. The Hoffmann Family resides in Media, Delaware County and is known to frequent Wolff’s Apple House for…

Deck Those Halls: The Charm of Great Local Décor

By JenniferHetrickDecember 5, 2013April 21, 2023 Cooking Methods, Featured, Holiday, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal

Greenery known so well in December is ready to become cozily arranged local decor in your home. Wolff’s Apple House can help with that, especially if you’re looking for Christmas trees with the best quality and Pennsylvania-growing in the history of their trunks and needles. Christmas trees at Wolff’s are sourced from Hill Farms in…

Soups and Prepared Foods: Go-To Grabs that Go Great around the Holidays

By JenniferHetrickNovember 28, 2013December 3, 2015 Featured, Locally Grown, Prepared Foods, Seasonal

Soups and other prepared foods are something you can easily pick up at Wolff’s Apple House to suit colder-season temperatures as they make their way into chillier months. And these are also great around holidays, thankfully. Wolff’s own chef, Chuck Smith, reflects thoughtfully on the value of soups before and into winter. “Soups in general…

Repurposing Pumpkins and Delighting in Slices of Pumpkin Roll

By JenniferHetrickOctober 31, 2013April 21, 2023 Crafts, Featured, Holiday, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal, Winter Squash

Pumpkins are wonderfully alluring in autumn, but repurposing makes them interesting on a whole other level aside from how we often look at them as Jack-O-Lantern-bound or warmly baked into pie, bread or pumpkin roll (but we’ll let the anticipation of palate-worthy bites of pumpkin roll simmer for a little while.) For those who have…

The Wonders of Winter Squash and Baba Ghanouj

By JenniferHetrickOctober 23, 2013April 21, 2023 Cooking Methods, Featured, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal, Winter Squash

As the farm femme behind B & H Organic Produce in Caernarvon Township in Lancaster County, Erica Bowers Lavdanski has a great admiration for every last winter squash she grows. “I love lots of things about winter squash. I love the versatility of either making a savory or sweet dish. I love how much energy…

Unique Ideas for Carving and Decorating Pumpkins

By JenniferHetrickOctober 17, 2013October 10, 2018 Cooking Methods, Crafts, Featured, Holiday, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal

The pumpkin supply is bursting from all corners of Wolff’s Apple House. Roswell Henderson, the assistant manager for Frecon Farms in Boyertown, Berks County, has a great affinity for turning pumpkins into the unexpected and amusingly surprising outside of homes. “Pretty much every other customer is coming in to buy pumpkins or ask questions about…

Revving Up with Roasted Broccoli in Autumn

By JenniferHetrickOctober 10, 2013April 21, 2023 Cooking Methods, Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Locally Grown, Recipes

Broccoli has a lot of possibilities per bite, and Phoebe Canakis of Phoebe’s Pure Food in Lancaster County has a simple, palate-rich recipe of Roasted Broccoli that works great with broccoli available at Wolff’s Apple House in autumn. The pairing of cauliflower is always another add-on option, too. For many years, Canakis published an online…

Stayman-Winesap Apples in Apple Crisp

By JenniferHetrickOctober 3, 2013April 21, 2023 Apples, Cooking Methods, Desserts, Featured, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal

Stayman-Winesap apples are now ready for the charming delight of chomping at Wolff’s Apple House. In its historical context, the Stayman-Winesap apple is usually deemed a seedling of the heirloom Winesap apple, taking its introduction from Dr. Joseph Stayman in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1866. Dr. Stayman grew up in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and practiced medicine…

Neck Pumpkins and Their Persuasion

By JenniferHetrickSeptember 26, 2013April 21, 2023 Beverages, Cooking Methods, Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal, Winter Squash maple spice pumpkin syrup recipe, Pumpkin spice coffee syrup recipe, pumpkin spice lattee syrup recipe, sugar-free pumpkin syrup recipe

The great lure of neck pumpkins is under way at Wolff’s Apple House. Their curiously elongated shapes and lighter hues compared to traditional pumpkins make them an easy game of I Spy for the eyes. Neck pumpkins are an ancestor of butternut squash, which is known for so many cooking and baking recipes today. When…

Sip-Worthy Cider is in Season

By JenniferHetrickSeptember 19, 2013April 21, 2023 Apples, Beverages, Featured, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal

Reminders of autumn are rich in the air when jug after jug of apple cider spans the storefront of Wolff’s Apple House. The seasonal lure with this sipping factor stems from the efforts of Weaver’s Orchard in Morgantown, Berks County, as the Weaver Family produces the cider Wolff’s carries each fall. “We sell cider in…