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Garden Rocket Pesto x2

December 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Cooking

I remember watching Jamie Oliver years ago, always preparing salads and garnishing dishes with a magical green called rocket. It turns out, rocket is actually my favorite garden green. Otherwise known as arugula, this green packs in the most flavor per leaf in my opinion. It’s not bitter like escarole or too [...]

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Leaving Behind the Trucker Hat

March 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Brooklyn

The New York Times ran an excellent article yesterday on the young farmers movement. The Times interviewed the two young farmers who left life behind in Brooklyn to start the The Hearty Roots Community Farm in upstate New York. I found this article to be quite inspiring as I’ve thought about doing this myself [...]

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Lunch routine?

October 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

We just wanted to take a minute to share our lunch with you. It’s rare that The Salted Cod gets stuck in a lunchtime routine but we seem to be handling this okay.

We have been making a small salad with arugula, cherry tomatoes, and shaved carrots (everything but the tomatoes came from our CSA) and [...]

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Here is our Share! Week 12

August 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Starting at the top from left to right: arugula, mizuna, celery, corn, potatoes, cherry tomatoes.
The Salted Cod gets excited when Steve opens his truck door and corn is pilled high, practically bursting from the seams. We can only imagine what it must be like growing up in the Corn Belt where these ears are [...]

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Wilson Farm

August 22nd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

Week 11 brought some excellent produce, maybe a little too good because we blew through the weeks share by Saturday. On a recommendation by our mom we hit up Wilson Farms in Lexington. We’ve known about this place for a while but for some reason or other have actually never been. Sure enough it is [...]

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Here is our Share!Week 11

August 22nd, 2007 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

Starting at the top from left to right: purple basil, arugula, celery, green peppers, cherry tomatoes, onions, red potatoes
Tomatoes, tomatoes, finally week 11 brings tomatoes. We received a nice pint of plump cherry tomatoes. The Salted Cod was popping these babies like candy on the way home from the drop.Week 11 also brings us [...]

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Here is our Share!Week 10

August 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Starting at the top from left to right: carrots collards, baby bok choy, basil, corn, baby potato, green peppers, and zucchini.
Keep the carrots and potatoes coming! The carrots have been getting us through the work day, great snack. We used our potatoes again for an awesome Sunday breakfast. We can’t get enough of them.
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Here is our Share!Week 9

August 7th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Starting at the top from left to right: napa cabbage, spring onions, carrots, mizuna, corn, potatoes, cucumbers, yellow squash.
Let me state right now that week 9 makes us feel good inside. The Salted Cod had a half work day on week 9’s pickup date so we took our bike down to central square to [...]

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Here is our Share!Week 7

July 31st, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Starting at the top from left to right: yellow carrots, “superstar” spring onions, beets, cauliflower, cilantro, basil, cucumbers.
This summer is flying by. We were so excited for more basil that we whipped up a batch of pesto to freeze for later use. The yellow carrots were an awesome snack for the work week as well [...]

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