Leeks: Not Just for Stews
Leeks are thought of as a base for winter soups and stews. Although a member of the onion family, the flavor is more subtle and refined than onions.
Fresh Heirloom Basil Recipes
Here are a couple of recipes that use fresh herbs- that you…
Roasted Pumpkin Puree
Real, home-grown roasted pumpkin puree has a rich sweetness that is just plain lacking in commercially available pumpkin products today.
Fermented Tomato Conserve (Conserva Cruda Di Pomodoro)
Try this traditional Italian fermented tomato conserve for your huge harvest of heirloom tomatoes.
Fresh Roasted Garden Salsa
A great foundation recipe for freshly roasted garden salsa using the best ingredients fresh from your garden. Easy to make and wonderfully tasty.
Chao Sigua (Stir-Fried Loofah)
Stir-Fried loofah is an unusual, delicious dish that is easy to make. Edible loofah is harvested young and tender and has a cucumber like flavor.
How to Prevent Bitter Cucumbers
Don't settle for bitter cucumbers from your garden! Here are some easy techniques to get the tastiest cucumbers possible.
Hortopita or Greek Spring Greens Quiche
Hortopita is a savory pie that is stuffed with horta, or edible spring greens and feta cheese between filo pastry sheets.
Radicchio di Treviso Salad
Radicchio di Treviso Salad is an excellent fall or early spring introduction to a great homemade meal. Try this traditional approach for some great flavors.
Young Asparagus with Prosciutto and Pine Nuts
Sauteéd young asparagus with prosciutto and pine nuts captures the essence of spring on a fork!
About Eggplant…
Bitter eggplant is a thing of the past when growing your own and used in a fresh eggplant pasta sauce.
Tagliatelle with Sculpit
Sculpit or stridoli is a treasured Italian green that has its own festival and is celebrated in this taglieatelle pasta dish that is easy and delicious.
Blue Corn Flapjacks with Prickly Pear Syrup
Blue Corn Flapjacks make an excellent breakfast - the blue cornmeal adds flavor that just can't be found in a bag , and they will disappear quickly!
Armenian Cucumber- Best Burpless Heirloom Cucumber
The heirloom Armenian Cucumber has been a preferred choice of home gardeners for generations for it's taste, productivity and "burpless" qualities.
Beef, Barley and Root Vegetable Soup
Every fall I look forward to this beef, barley and root vegetable soup. A bowl of broth-based soup somehow nourishes both the body and soul.
Steamed Spaghetti Squash with Pasta Sauce
Spaghetti squash is often overlooked by the home gardener as too plain or common. This is unfortunate as it makes for very tasty, quick and easy dinners.
Argentine Beef Roast with Fettuccine
This unusual but delicious Argentine beef roast is served with "tuco" - a traditional tomato sauce over tallarines, similar to handmade fettuccine.
Pickled Nasturtium Pods
Nasturtium pods, seeds or buds are hot like peppers when they are mature, green and plump. They make incredible pickled caper alternatives.
Honey Pickled Jalapeños with Garlic
Pickled jalapeños and garlic have been favorites of ours for a couple of decades. See our newest twist with honey on this classic recipe!
Pumpkin-Orange Cheesecake
This pumpkin-orange cheesecake is a centerpiece dessert with multiple layers of rich flavors that roll across your tongue, surprising with each new taste.
Spinach Salade Lyonnaise
Fresh Spinach Salade Lyonnaise is quick and easy to make, yet tasty with spinach, crisp bacon, barely cooked eggs, and warm, sharp Dijon vinaigrette
Sour Cream Biscuits
Sour cream biscuits are a delicious use of extra sour cream, for a special occasion or just for the fun of it.
Catanian Wheat and Lentil Soup
Zuppa Di Grano e Lenticchie or Catanian Wheat and Lentil Soup is an ancient farm soup that is enjoying a resurgence in its home country of Sicily.
Korean Pickled Garlic (Maneul Jangajji)
Discover a tasty recipe for Korean pickled garlic using fresh hardneck garlic. Sweet undertones and a tangy flavor await!
Cilantro Freezer Pickles
Cilantro Freezer Pickles has been a favorite of our for years and is always devoured at picnics. Preserves the outstanding fresh cilantro flavor.
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup
Butternut squash are deliciously sweet and silky, making creamy cold weather soups. You can use almost any hard winter squash to make this soup.
The Versatility of Herbes de Provence
Classic Herbes de Provence is very versatile, being used in French cooking from meats and vegetables to stews, soups and breads. Give these recipes a try.
History of Beets
Beets have a long history of feeding people and their livestock. We look at a brief history of the beet, along with a couple of delicious recipes!
Chipotle-Cilantro Coleslaw
Elevate your coleslaw game with Chipotle-Cilantro Coleslaw. This recipe features roasted golden beets for a unique and delicious twist.
Sopa de Tomate con Albóndigas or Tomato Soup with Meatballs
Oaxacan Albóndigas soup with heirloom tomato puree, onions and home raised beef. A wonderfully tasty and satisfying cold weather soup.
Heirloom Red Russian Kale Recipes
Delicious recipes for using the wonderful Red Russian Kale that is a mainstay of the fall garden.
All About Basil
Fresh basil is a hallmark of summer. Its Greek name translates as “royal”, and basil is a symbol of love in Italy.
Blue and Yellow Cornmeal Polenta
Polenta takes a bit of time, care, attention and love but the results are delicious. We show you how to make it with a lot less work but all the flavor.
Six Hour Caramelized Onions
Rich, slow-cooked caramelized onions are a simple treat. Charcoal grill roasting adds a smoky element to the sweet, complex flavors with only 3 ingredients.
Heirloom Peas: Sugar, Snap and Snow
Heirloom peas love cool, wet weather, and are often only in season for a few weeks, when you will find local farmers bringing them to market.
Herbed Marinated Dried Tomatoes
Herbed Marinated Dried Tomatoes make incredibly thoughtful gifts. You can't buy the flavor of these herbed tomatoes, anywhere, at any price.
Alice Berner’s Cornbread
This cornbread is light, moist and very flavorful with a sweetness that is warm and inviting. It is perfect for heirloom cornmeal and White Sonora wheat!
Easy Herbed Mayonnaise in 30 Seconds
Real, traditional mayonnaise has only five simple ingredients but is rarely made fresh, which is truly a shame. Discover how to make fresh delicious mayonnaise in 30 seconds with our recipe, and don’t worry about running out of the store-bought stuff ever again!
Lemon-Garlic Infused Olive Tapenade
We did this video in partnership with our local hospital about growing and cooking with herbs. Lemon-Garlic Infused Olive Tapenade makes use of them.
Bierocks – Savory Hand-held Working Lunches
Bierocks are the original working lunch, hand-held savory pies served in the fields during the mid-day break. Today they are enjoyed anytime!
Asparagus with Tomato Pesto Dressing
Asparagus adds a creamy foundation to the rich, flavorful and slightly spicy tomato pesto sauce in this unusual and tasty side dish.
Lime-Mint Freezer Pickles
Lime and mint are not usually thought of together (if at all) in combination with pickles, but they should be! The lime-mint flavors work together with the cucumbers to make something much more than the sum of their parts - bright, refreshing, and absolutely addictively delicious.
Heirloom Oregano: A Culinary Herb in a League All its Own
Oregano is a common kitchen herb, but is used for more than cooking. Experience the amazing flavor and aroma this easy to grow heirloom herb offers.
Pickled Cucamelon with Dill and Mint
Cucamelons are tiny watermelon lookalikes with crisp, crunchy, cucumber-tinged-with-lime flavors. Try them in this delightful pickled cucamelon recipe!
Homemade Chile Coloradito Sauce
Homemade Chile Coloradito sauce is my adaptation of the classic mole sauce from Oaxaca, Mexico. Make extra, it is well worth the effort!
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Maple-Dijon Dressing
Pan-roasted Brussels Sprouts are rich and nutty and when combined with Maple-Dijon dressing, really sets them apart! A great side dish for family dinners.
Smoked Yogurt Marinated Beef Roast
Smoked Yogurt Marinated Beef Roast - the perfect centerpiece for an impressive and delicious dinner that won't take all of your day to prepare!
Braised and Marinated Carrot Recipes
Here's two new recipes that use fresh from the garden carrots in unusual but delicious ways. Fresh, local food in the best way possible!
Heirloom Corn and Potato Chowder
Heirloom Corn and Potato Chowder is a warming winter chowder, thick and hearty to chase away the cold winter blues.
Dijon Roasted Heirloom Beets
Dijon Roasted Heirloom Beets is a wonderful recipe for bringing out the rich earthy sweetness of heirloom beets from your home garden.
Lemony Green Beans
Lemony Green beans are a welcome addition to the dinner table in the spring when they first arrive. Taste our unique and delicious take on them!
Rhubarb’s Story
Rhubarb is one of my favorite food plants; its red-green stalks beckon summer on and strawberry-rhubarb pie is one of my favorites.
Easy Homemade Basil Pesto
Fresh, homemade basil pesto is one of the treasures of summer. Pesto is one that is very easy and quick to make, so come along and we'll show you how!
Fermented Pepper Sauce
Fermented pepper sauce is one of the easiest, safest and most delicious methods of preserving your garden's bountiful harvest of peppers.
Make the Best Sun-Dried Tomatoes at Home
Home-made sun-dried tomatoes are amazing. Just cracking open a jar perfumes the room with their unmistakably rich fragrance, and they are easy to make.
Spinach Salad with Sesame and Ginger
This Asian- inspired wilted spinach salad combines the rich, sweet fresh spinach with the rice vinegar, ginger, pepper flakes and toasted sesame flavors.
A Tale of Two Onion Soups
Two onion soup recipes compared using heirloom vegetables. Using heirloom onion and garlic gives the incomparable flavor to the soups.
The Poppy and Its Seeds
Poppy flowers are a beautiful addition to any garden with an amazing benefit - the seeds are edible! Great growing tips and a delicious recipe are inside.
Large Leaf Sorrel or Lemonade Leaf
French sorrel is known as "lemonade leaf" and has been prized for its nutritional and culinary qualities for centuries. In many climates it will nativize.
Moroccan Preserved Lemons
Preserved whole lemons is a centuries-old tradition where salt and lemon juice mellow the bitterness and create highly addictive sweet, salty, and sour flavors heavy with savory citrus aromas.
Mediterranean Pan Roasted Vegetables
Mediterranean Pan Roasted Vegetables are wonderful as a side to outdoor cooking or as a basis for a fresh, healthy meal.
3 Great Heirloom Pumpkin Recipes
Three great heirloom pumpkin recipes that prove pumpkin isn't strictly for Halloween or pumpkin pie; there are many other tasty ways to enjoy it.
Classic Pan-Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Brussels sprouts when slowly pan-roasted with other vegetables are surprisingly delicious, simple and very satisfying. An excellent meal or side dish.
Young Green Beans with Dijon Vinaigrette
Young Green Beans with Dijon Vinaigrette is a quick and simply delicious way to make them into a very memorable side dish that will be talked about!
Red Risotto with Radicchio
Radicchio is a member of the chicory family - along with Endive and Escarole - and is part of the dandelion group. Here's an unusual but delicious risotto!
Spiced Cauliflower Soup
Spiced cauliflower soup is an easy and delicious dish - a warming winter's dinner but is also a cool and creamy summer's lunch entreé or appetizer.
Honey Lemon Ginger Turmeric Cold Killer
Honey and lemon juice combined with powerful ginger and turmeric makes a highly effective cold killer that's easy to make.
Szechuan Button and Mango Sorbet
Szechuan Buttons make an attention-grabbing "fizzy" sorbet- a tongue-tingling dessert or perhaps the ultimate between-course palate cleanser.
Sicilian Eggplant and Tomato Sauce
This Sicilian eggplant and tomato sauce is wonderful and surprising with its richness and depth of flavors, both fresh and roasted. Easy and delicious!
Cajun Chicken Maque Choux
Cajun Chicken Maquechoux is a stunning late summer dish that will be remembered fondly when the fresh corn is gone.
Thanksgiving Turkey and Pumpkin Soup
Here is a great way to turn the remaining Thanksgiving turkey and pumpkin into an incredibly delicious soup that people will rave about.
Chard Of Many Colors
Chard is like a reliable friend, always there, it is one of the greatest, and often least appreciated, of all the gifts from your local farmer (or garden).
Oaxacan Chicken in Poblano Sauce
This Mexican poblano chicken dish from Oaxaca is one of our family’s favorites because it is easy to make and is absolutely delicious.
Fermented Chile Paste
Fermented chile paste is one of my favorite condiments, and making your own lets you choose the flavors and level of heat. See how easy it is!
Fresh Garden Antipasto Trio
This trio of antipasto recipes is perfect for light grazing through an evening with friends, or the two of you watching a summer evening fade into twilight.
Risotto alla Veronese
Risotto alla Veronese is a great taste of the wonderful risottos from the world famous Isola della Scala rice region of Verona, Italy. Simply delicious!
Old Time Green Chile Stew
Green chile stew is a staple in many Southwestern homes. It is a comfort food on par with chicken soup. Here's the recipe I grew up with.
Herb and Vegetable Roasted Chicken with Buttermilk Biscuits
Herb and vegetable roasted chicken with buttermilk biscuits. This great pair of recipes create an impressive yet easy satisfying and delicious dinner.
Peel Garlic in 10 Seconds
Can you peel garlic in 10 seconds? Not just one clove, but a whole head? We show you how in our very short video!