by Toni | Dec 18, 2022 | Come Home, Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Meat Masterpieces
There are many ways to make shepherd’s pie, most of them quite humble since this was originally a peasant dish, not an aristocratic one. Traditional recipes use lamb (which I am doing here) and a white potato mash for topping. Yep…meat and potatoes, that’s about...
by Toni | Oct 13, 2022 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Vegetables
This is Ben. He is one of my favorite people at the Goshen Community Market. Ben runs Rumblin’ Ernie’s Farm, and he grows the biggest, sweetest carrots this side of the Mississippi. Not kidding. When Ben first showed up at my market with that steady supply of carrots,...
by Toni | Aug 3, 2022 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Vegetables
I bet it is no surprise that one of my favorite ways to relax on days when it is too hot to be outside is to travel through my ever-growing library of cookbooks, chef biographies and eco farming articles. You too, huh? So the other particularly hot day, I was sitting...
by Toni | Sep 19, 2021 | Come Home, Farmer's Market, Let's Eat
For the entire summer, I have luxuriated in the most amazing organic carrots—quite the treat at the farmers market because carrots are not usually plentiful, organic or not. Carrots take up lots of garden space and can grow in really wonky shapes and sizes—not at all...
by Toni | Sep 18, 2021 | Be Simple, Farmer's Market, Fruits, Let's Eat
I am always looking for new ways to use ground cherries, those golden globes of farmers markets across the Midwest. I’ve been developing recipes for these one-of-a-kind berries (Actually they are a member of the tomatillo family!) since I started this blog way back in...
by Toni | May 25, 2021 | Be Simple, Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Live Green
It never fails: I’m standing in line at the farmers market when the person in front of me politely asks the vendor to “please cut all those leaves off my beets/turnips/carrots/fennel (you choose) before I put them in my bag.” Sigh. What are they thinking?!! It’s as if...
