Our Blog
Welcome to our blog. To make things a bit easier to navigate we’ve divided up the posts into Recipes and Cooking Tips from the farm and Farm News, Musings, and Stories from our every-days on the farm. Enjoy!
RECIPES FROM THE FARM
Roasting a Duck 101 – Bon Appétit
The biggest issue causing the US to trail woefully behind France in duck consumption is the fact that recipes like Duck A L'orange and Duck Confit, while exotic sounding and quite delicious, are also intimidating. Don't forget that, just like Bruce Dickinson barking...
Tagine De Souris D’Agneau (Lamb Shank Tagine)
Lamb shank tagine to make your mouth water and your kitchen smell like heaven. You can never go wrong with a recipe from David Lebovitz and your can’t every go wrong with a recipe that utilizes grass fed lamb, cinnamon and smoked paprika!
Rosemary and Maple Syrup Roasted Chicken
I came across this recipe comes in my favorite (and only) subscription magazine, Saveur, which highlighted this wonderful and simple roasted chicken recipe using my favorite roasting technique, high heat with just a few rich, savory ingredients. This recipe comes from...
Pulled Pork Sandwiches
This recipe is adapted from the Williams-Sonoma Pulled Pork recipe and it just can't be beat! It's a no-fail recipe that can be made with a myriad of sauces depending on your cravings and on your stores. Serve these hearty sandwiches with homemade or...
How to Roast a Duck
There's a world of intense flavor to be discovered when you choose to roast a duck instead of taking the tried-and-true path with chicken. Yet many cooks find duck intimidating. The reason, in a word, is fat. Ducks wear a thick coat of it, and fatty skin is not a...
Roasted Duck 101
Roasting a duck doesn’t need to cause you intense anxiety. Learn how to become a pro at this awe-inspiring meal.
Counterfeit Duck Confit
Duck - Counterfeit Duck Confit Duck Confit (literally Duck Preserved) is one of my favorite meats of all time and so there's no need to mention how excited I was to find this recipe in David Lebovit's cookbook, My Paris Kitchen....
Grilled Chicken Kebabs with Bacon Paste
Brayden’s at it again with his new favorite way to cook chicken kebabs
8 Common Misteaks People Make When Cooking Steak
We all love a juicy, well-cooked (though not well-done!) steak. When you’ve got a quality piece of meat, you don’t have to gussy it up with complicated cooking techniques and extravagant sauces—and that’s precisely why we love it. It’s simplicity at its best: just...
Chicken – Tostadas Salsa Verde
Chicken - Tostadas Salsa Verde This is a perfect recipe to use up leftover shredded chicken. You can also bake 2 or 3 chicken breasts for about 20 minutes while you prepare the rest of the ingredients. 4 flour or corn tortillas3 ounces pepper jack cheese (about...
Farm Stories, Musings, and Farm News
Finding Joy in Simple Living
Our culture lends itself to busyness, and often even those of us who are drawn to local sustainable agriculture and natural, organic foods and products can find ourselves rushing through things and hurrying more than we'd like. In the midst of all the important and...