Mike Mahr’s Pickle Recipe

From Mike: The pickle recipe is as simple as it seems—fresh kirby cukes, kosher or pickling salt, non-tap water (or tap water left out for a day or so), fresh garlic, pickling spices or what ever spices you like, fresh dill or dill weed (you can also add dill seeds), clean jar or crock. Wash the cukes…

July Zucchini Fest

Zucchini Crust Pesto Pizza, adapted from THIS recipe Ingredients:  1 T. olive oil & flour (regular or brown rice flour) to coat pan 2 cups packed grated zucchini 2 egg whites (+1 egg yolk, optional) 1/4 cup flour (regular or brown rice flour) 1/2 cup grated mozzarella 1/2 cup grated parmesan 2 T. chopped basil…

A Gluten-free Rhubarb Raspberry Crisp

I know some of you are on a gluten-free diet so I played around with a few ingredients this morning and came up with the following recipe. Whether you’re gluten-free or not, I think you’ll enjoy this crisp!   Rhubarb Filling: • 4 cups rhubarb, cut into 3/4″ pieces • 1-2 cups raspberries and/or strawberries (optional) • ½ –…

July Volunteer Day

Many thanks to everyone who helped out yesterday – the garden looks great after all of the weeding that was done and about 75 % of our crops are now irrigated! As soon as the pond liner arrives, we’ll be moving forward with the pond construction. Our next volunteer day will be Sat., August 6th.

Chef Mahr’s Garlic Scapes

Oh, the joys of having an executive chef as a member of our CSA! Mike Mahr, i.e. Chef Extraordinaire, sent along some garlic scapes (pictured above) for me to share with the rest of you. I’ll distribute them in this week’s CSA share. If you’d like to give them a try sometime, the recipe is a mixture of  Soy Sauce–sweet and regular, sherry wine, Worcestershire…