Pasta with Spring Veggies

By recipesJune 14, 2018March 15, 2019 Featured, Main-Dishes, Recipes, Vegetarian/Vegan pasta, vegetables

Bursting with the fresh flavors of spring! This dish comes from the recipe book of our chef Chuck Smith. It’s got new potatoes, asparagus, snap peas, and mint for a deliciously light meal! Print Pasta with Spring Veggies Author: Chuck Smith Recipe type: Main Dish Ingredients 1 ½ pounds new potatoes, scrubbed and cut into 1”…

KITCHEN COPY:SWISS CHARD

By chucksmithOctober 21, 2015October 23, 2015 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…

KITCHEN COPY: HEAVENLY HEIRLOOMS

By chucksmithJuly 29, 2015 Cooking Methods, Featured, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal, Summer Produce, Tomatoes local ingredients, locally grown produce, locally grown tomatoes, recipes, tomatoes, vegetables, vegetarian

Some heirloom tomato varieties hardly resemble tomatoes at all. That’s what one might think, anyway. The truth is that only in the last hundred years did tomatoes become so uniformly round, and red, and (Let’s admit it!) often flavorless. That’s all changed, of course. Americans have rediscovered (thanks to hard-working small farmers) how to embrace seasonality, and a desire to experience the…

Early Summer Crop Rotation Smarts in Your Backyard Garden

By JenniferHetrickJune 24, 2015June 25, 2015 Featured, Gardening Advice: Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs, Hardy Vegetables, Root Vegetables, Summer Produce backyard, fertilizer, garden, hardy vegetables, soil, summer, vegetables

This week in June is a good time to think about what plants to add to backyard gardens after you’re ready to take out what you might have planted at the end of April or the beginning of May—likely radishes, turnips, lettuce, other cool season greens and maybe spinach. Erica Lavdanski of B & H…

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…