Wolff’s Recipe of the Week

By rachelvanduzerFebruary 27, 2013April 21, 2023 Berries, Featured, Leafy Greens, Recipes, Summer Produce, Tomatoes

Are you trying to eat healthier and incorporate more fresh fruits and vegetables into your diet? Well, then we have some really good news for you! We just launched our brand new Recipe of the Week program, where we’ll feature a few produce items on sale, coupled with all of the other ingredients you need…

What to do with Thanksgiving leftovers?

By rachelvanduzerNovember 21, 2012April 21, 2023 Featured, Holiday, Leafy Greens, Recipes

Even more than the Thanksgiving feast, my family and I look forward to Black Friday. But not for the door buster sales or jump-starting our holiday shopping: we look forward to the leftover turkey sandwiches. One thing I’ve learned over the years is that when building a sandwich, you don’t have to limit yourself to…

CANDY FOR BREAKFAST?

By chucksmithOctober 16, 2012November 2, 2017 Cooking Methods, Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Locally Grown, Recipes, Winter Squash acorn squash, winter squash

For weeks Steve Rosazza has been delivering some very delicious acorn squash. This variety, along with Butternut, Spaghetti, and Festival, are just some of the winter squash available locally at Wolff’s. Years ago, while working on a small farm in Baltimore, I had the opportunity to cook lots of squash. A heavy bumper crop made…

Fall Is on the Tip of My Tongue

By rachelvanduzerSeptember 13, 2012April 21, 2023 Apples, Featured, Recipes, Root Vegetables, Seasonal

I remember heading to class one crisp September day. The sky was a deep shade of blue with puffs of big white clouds passing overhead. As I breathed in that clear autumn air, I realized one thing: I wouldn’t make it to class on time. That perfect fall weather demanded that I take a detour…

What Exactly Is a Seckel Pear?

By rebeccatalbotAugust 24, 2012 Featured, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal delaware valley produce, recipes, seckel pear

Never heard of Seckel Pears? Well, you’re not alone. The Seckel Pear is relatively unknown across the country, but it’s one of the Delaware Valley’s hidden treasures. It was developed here in the Southeastern Pennsylvania in the early 1800’s by a farmer named Mr. Seckel, and it’s had a following here ever since. Seckel pears are small in size–almost bite-sized– but…

Time for a Tall Glass of Lemonade

By rachelvanduzerAugust 9, 2012April 21, 2023 Beverages, Featured, Recipes, Root Vegetables beets, beverages, herbs, lavender, lemonade, lemons, mint

During my summer in Provence, France, I’ve been learning to make use of the many abundant herbs, some that grow wild, and some that grow well in our gardens. It’s very hot and dry here, so not everything grows easily in this climate. Since it’s so hot and dry, naturally, one of the first things…

Can’t Beet This Salad

By rebeccatalbotJuly 25, 2012April 21, 2023 Featured, Recipes, Root Vegetables, Salads beets, cooking, recipes, salads

A few summers ago, I stood face to face with a few vegetables that scared me. I love to eat almost all veggies, but I have met a few I didn’t know how to prepare. As I looked at the vegetables on my counter, one scared me because it looked like it would stand up…

The Versatile Dessert

By rebeccatalbotJune 14, 2012November 2, 2017 Berries, Desserts, Locally Grown, Recipes

Pies, cobblers and crisps are the locavore’s best friend when dessert-making time rolls around. Why? Because all season long, bakers can walk straight from the field or farm market to the kitchen, modify only a few ingredients, and make a delicious treat. This Father’s Day, with peaches, raspberries and blueberries in season, and strawberries still…

Picnic Paradise

By rebeccatalbotMay 25, 2012June 1, 2012 Featured, Holiday, Locally Grown, Recipes

One of my favorite photos on the Wolff’s Apple House Web site is the picture that tops the “Recipes” page. It depicts Kenneth and Gennie Wolff, the third generation owners of Wolff’s Apple House, in Spring 1955. On a blanket spread in the midst of their orchard’s picnic grove, Gennie Wolff kneels, overseeing the picnic…

The Very Chic Garbanzo Bean

By rebeccatalbotApril 27, 2012December 1, 2015 Featured, Recipes chick-peas, garbanzo beans, recipes

Last week, my husband and I stopped into a local sandwich place for a bite to eat. I was hungry for salad, and selected this particular salad because the words “chick-pea” were in its name. When we settled down to eat, my husband took a glance at the chick peas, piled so high you could…

Thai Pizza with Sweet Chili Sauce: A New Twist on a Pizza Tradition

By rebeccatalbotMarch 16, 2012April 21, 2023 Featured, Main-Dishes, Recipes pizza dough, recipes, red bell peppers

I was probably about six the first time I can remember my mom baking her own pizza dough. After that, it became a family tradition: Friday nights were pizza nights, and her homemade dough, stretched to the corners of a cookie sheet, formed the basis of creations the family sometimes helped to make. This week,…

A Dessert All By Themselves: Apple Bake

By rebeccatalbotFebruary 20, 2012November 2, 2017 Desserts, Featured, Locally Grown, Recipes

This time of year, I often can’t resist making apple crisps or apple pies, even though the holidays have passed. I surround tender apple slices with layers of flaky pastry or oats, like a fortress of sweetness. Last night for our dessert, though, I attempted something different: a very simple apple bake. This recipe realizes…

A Delicious Valentine’s Day

By rachelvanduzerFebruary 10, 2012December 1, 2015 Featured, Gifts from the Kitchen, Recipes

Over the nearly 5 years my husband and I have been married, we’ve learned to fit things we enjoy into our budget and find ways to make “home dates” special. Here are a few ideas of some of our favorite meals. Simply Elegant Home Cooking Ideas When my husband and I were first married, money was…

Please Pass the Cranberry Sauce

By rebeccatalbotDecember 22, 2011April 21, 2023 Featured, Holiday, Recipes, Seasonal cranberries, cranberry sauce, holiday meals, locally grown produce, recipes

I sat across from my cousin’s nine-year-old son this Thanksgiving. A big platter of cranberry sauce gleamed on the table between us. Greedily, we both stared at it. “Well, my friend,” I said. “Looks like there’s half for you and half for me.” “Not if I get it first,” he said. Cranberry sauce is one…

Soup’s On: 4 Soup Recipes

By rebeccatalbotDecember 9, 2011April 21, 2023 Cooking Methods, Featured, Prepared Foods, Recipes, Root Vegetables, Soup, Tomatoes budget meals, frugal meals, lentils, potatoes, prepared food, soup, stew, stock

In my apartment’s tiny kitchen, the whole room warms up when a pot simmers on the stove top. This is one reason I love to simmer soup and stew this time of year. The other reasons are more universal: the chance to load a bowl full of vegetables, the frugality of re-purposing odds and ends…

OH, FLORAL MERISTEMS!

By chucksmithDecember 2, 2011April 21, 2023 Cooking Methods, Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Recipes cauliflower, hardy vegetables

At this time of day, the palest shade of yellow becomes white. It is a white like ivory or the cooked white of an egg. It is the glorious flesh or white curd of the aborted floral meristems. It is the white of cauliflower, the white of the species Brassica oleracea. And to eat this…

Season’s Sweetness

By rebeccatalbotNovember 11, 2011 Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Holiday, Recipes, Root Vegetables, Seasonal sweet potato, Thanksgiving, yam

Did you ever visit a museum gift shop as a kid? Did you ever beg to have an adult buy you a geode: one of those round sandpapery rocks that look homely on the outside, but reveal crystals inside when you smash them with a hammer? That’s how I think of the sweet potato: the…

APPLES PANDOWDY!

By chucksmithOctober 14, 2011April 21, 2023 Apples, Featured, Recipes apples, baked apple recipes

Any way you look at it, a farm is a business–a livelihood for those interested in growing large quantities of food to sell. But the business of farming varies greatly. In many cases food is grown because it is profitable. People need food. It’s as simple as that. Once in while however, a farmer grows…

Secrets Too Good to Keep

By rebeccatalbotSeptember 20, 2011October 27, 2016 Featured, Prepared Foods, Recipes family recipe, fruits, herbs, vegetables

Have you ever tasted a Wolff family recipe? Maybe you’ve sampled one of the family recipes that our chef, Chuck Smith, crafts for our own prepared foods line: the fresh tomato salsa that fills our fridges all year round, or the guacamole that delights customers in summer and fall. But have you ever made a…

A DIFFERENT KIND OF APPLE + Applesauce Recipe

By chucksmithSeptember 9, 2011April 21, 2023 Apples, Featured, Recipes apples, applesauce, honeycrisp, stayman-winesap

As I walk across the Wolff’s parking lot, it occurs to me that it has been raining for days. It makes the atmosphere of the market a little damp, but that doesn’t stop the crowds from visiting the store in search of apples. I suppose it’s part of the experience. It isn’t often that you…