Simply Fresh Recipes by Julie Wern
Julie Wern is a health coach, cooking instructor, and food blogger. It is Julie’s passion to help individuals find their unique path to health without sacrificing joy and pleasure in food.
First, a note on peppers. It is now pepper season at the farm…sweet green peppers, a variety of pick your own hot peppers, and peppers in between. Two varieties, shishito and Padron peppers, are less familiar to folks so I have highlighted them below. I am also including a couple of unique recipes for cabbage …
Simply Fresh–Week 6–Cabbage, Mini Eggplant, and Shishito and Padron Peppers Read More »
And the Napa cabbage keeps coming….. Try this refreshing slaw if you are looking for new ideas: Save Print Napa Cabbage Slaw with Peaches and Creamy Poppyseed Dressing Serves: 4-6 Ingredients – 1 small/medium Napa cabbage, thinly sliced, rinsed and dried – 2 firm ripe peaches, peeled, cut into thin slices, then cut in …
Simply Fresh–Week 5–Napa Cabbage and Zucchini Galore Read More »
What a better CSA based dish to bring to a Fourth of July party than a salad! With the produce items we will be receiving this week, there should be plenty of salad ingredients for a wide range of types of salads. Here are some of my new and old favorites. In the meantime, some of …
Garlic Scapes Garlic scapes are the stems that grow up from garlic bulbs. Think somewhat tough scallions that taste like a mild version of bright fresh garlic. Garlic scapes can be eaten raw or cooked, whole or chopped. They can be pickled, roasted, grilled, sautéed, or used in pestos. The stems can be tough, however, …
Simply Fresh–week 2–Garlic Scapes, Broccoli Rabe, and More Bok Choy Read More »
Hello Fellow CSA members. I am so excited to write for you for yet another wonderful Holcomb Farm growing season. I am Julie Wern, health coach, food writer, cooking instructor and author of Holcomb Farm’s Simply Fresh blog. Simply fresh is a weekly blog designed to inform, instruct and inspire the healthful, flavorful, and efficient …
CSA procedures and Tips and the Simply Fresh Blog Read More »
This year I tried, and largely failed, to grow my own garden. Granted it was not my full time job and I certainly was not being paid for it (in fact, I paid a pretty penny to plant it), but it did not take me long to realize how difficult farming must be. I also …
It is amazing to me how being a CSA member has made me so much more aware of what I eat throughout the entire year. What I have learned is how differently I eat during the CSA season compared to the winter months, not necessarily because of what is not available (I mean we can …
Featured Item—Cauliflower Amazingly, I didn’t taste a bite of cauliflower until I was in my 30’s.It just wasn’t a vegetable my parents served.Once I started cooking for myself, I would eye the beautiful but mysterious-looking white bulbs in the store and think, “now how in the world do you cook that?”.I’m glad I learned, because …
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