Recipes

Let’s get excited about next week’s share with a recipe preview!

CSA, Food, Recipes, Weekly Shares

What’s the point of this post? To get you excited about next week’s CSA share and help you prep your pantry & fridge for items on this coming week’s tremendously exciting menu! It is winter squash season, so we’ll be getting a different winter squash every week. This week we got ‘Fairy’ winter squash, which […]

via Upcoming recipe: winter squash & beluga lentil burgers + chipotle coleslaw — My Urban Farmgal Life

One way to use some of your local CSA goodies

CSA, Food, Recipes, Weekly Shares

Hey everyone!  This delicious recipe uses kale, lentils, thyme, rosemary and onions from the CSA.  The pork sausage and garlic powder are local, too.  All you need are some sweet potatoes and you’ve got a very delicious, very nutritious meal!

Early this afternoon I took a look in the pantry and was uninspired. “What am I going to do for dinner tonight?” I thought. While working through the rest of the afternoon, I let this little conundrum roll around in the back of my head. Inspiration usually hits me if I just let my subconscious […]

via Lentil Sausage Bake — My Urban Farmgal Life

I scream, you scream, we all scream for…parsnip muffins?

CSA, Food, Recipes

Parsnips. In a muffin? Seriously. If you are one of those people who cringe when you see parsnips in your CSA share…well, listen up because I’ve got a sweet deal for you. These muffins totally rock. They are moist. They are just sweet enough. They have a hint of lemon. And if you don’t really […]

via Parsnip muffins–yes, you can — My Urban Farmgal Life

Week 12: eggplant curry will cure these hazy summer day blues

CSA, Food, Recipes

It should come as no surprise that I love food of all kinds, but I particularly love curries. I love the way the simple act of combining 7 or 8 spices into an exotic mixture carries the aroma of far away places to my kitchen. Since I can’t travel to India right now, I’ll settle […]

via Spice up your day with a little eggplant curry — My Urban Farmgal Life

Week 10 — some ideas on how to use the fennel and patty pan squash

CSA, Recipes

This week’s share gave us patty pan squash (y’know, those little squashes that look like flying saucers?), fennel, and Roma tomatoes. Oh! And BASIL. So I decided to grill for dinner last night, and I added a sweet onion, a few mushrooms, and some Brie cheese to the mix. Then I topped everything with a […]

via Grilling in the backyard: summer squash, fennel,

Week 9 recipe will make good use of those green beans

CSA, Food, Recipes

Dang it’s been hot lately! I think July is going to set some records here in Helena and elsewhere around Montana. When it gets really hot sometimes my appetite goes the way of the dodo and nothing sounds good to eat. I tend to focus on juicy fruits and vegetables–apples, nectarines, tomatoes, cucumbers, sugar snap […]

via Heat got your appetite down? Maybe this bean and grain salad will sound good! — My Urban Farmgal Life