a recipe for good luck: creamed collard greens

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Looking for a collard greens recipe to bring a little luck to your new year?  In this traditional recipe for creamed collards, collard greens are gently simmered in fresh cream with caramelized onions and sprinkling of freshly grated nutmeg.  Creamed collards speak to the essence of comfort food in a way few other dishes do.  There’s easy [...]

Ham and Bean Soup for Your Crockpot

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Ham and bean soup: it’s just about as simple as it can get and it takes such little time as this particularly version of ham and bean soup is cooked in a crockpot.   I love how the mildness of tender white beans complements the striking, sweet smokiness of a pastured ham hock in a [...]

One Local Summer: Seared Steak with Cilantro Butter

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Our premarket CSA began just this week – perfect timing for One Local Summer.   It seems now, more and more, all of our meals are local.   If not entirely local, they’re substantially local.   What a blessing it is to celebrate real food this way!   This week we enjoyed local milk, eggs, [...]