Category: Summer Produce

Summer Strata in the Slow Cooker
By Categories: Featured, Recipes, Sides, Summer Produce, Vegetarian/Vegan

During 2020—(Remember that year??)—we all learned to make sourdough bread. We cultivated our starter. We hoarded our flour when we could, given the shortages. We weighed or measured our recipe ingredients. We mixed and waited and folded and covered our dough. We turned the dough out into fabric-lined bannatons. And we baked those lovely loaves…
Cucumber chick pea salad

Heirloom Tomato, Cucumber & Chickpea Salad
By Categories: Featured, Gluten-Free, Paleo, Salads, Sides, Summer Produce, Tomatoes, Vegetarian/Vegan Tags: , ,

Last summer, a friend brought an amazing cucumber, chickpea and heirloom tomato salad to a barbecue picnic. I asked for the recipe and she said she never really follows one – she just throws together a few simple ingredients and it makes for this incredible combination. I’ve made it a few times since then and…

Modifying Recipes to Cook with the Seasons
By Categories: Cooking Methods, Farm-to-Table, Featured, Recipes, Summer Produce, Tomatoes

Summer in Pennsylvania, for me, means swimming in my parents’ pond. Or at least hanging out on the dock with the adults and drinking iced tea while the kids swim. A few of my friends’ and relatives’ kids have waded into the pond sporting inflatable “swimmies” on their arms. Remember those things? The way they…

Cultivating Greens and Making An Easy Arugula Salad
By Categories: Gardening Advice: Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs, Leafy Greens, Locally Grown, Recipes, Salads, Seasonal, Summer Produce

Despite chilly, rainy days in the recent weeks of early spring, May will soon be showing us the brighter and warmer days which are perfect for planting garden greens. When it comes to cultivating different kinds of leafy greens to join into your meals, Robyn Jasko of Kutztown has the perfect background to give great…