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
Thanksgiving Comes to River Cottage Farm
It's that time again and here is my favorite recipe for turkey this year. Again, from the wonders of Williams-Sonoma... Cranberry Glazed Turkey Begin roasting the turkey at a higher temperature so the skin will crisp and brown, then reduce the heat to ensure the bird...
Making Bone Broth – Traditional Stock
When the cold weather creeps in it is time for me to make broth. The warmth and nourishment seem to fit well with my quest toward natural and seasonal living. I used my last quart of beef broth last week for the sensational, crowd pleasing Shepherds Pie (recipe...
The Smoking Goose
The Smoking Goose Comes to River Cottage Farm The one comment that seems to emerge from almost every River Cottage customer at one time or another is " WHERE CAN I GET HEALTHY LUNCHEON MEATS!!" Breakfast and supper seem to be more easily conquered than the brown bag...
Juicy Pub-Style Burgers
In my younger days I could have been considered to be quite an adventurous soul and when the opportunity presented itself to travel to England with Don Williams I knew, of course, that I would have to learn to drive on the wrong side of the road, in the wrong side of...
Good to the Grain
This week I pulled out Kim Boyce's lovely cookbook, Good to the Grain and together with a wonderful post from one of my favorite blogs, Cannelle et Vanille and Aran's post about her now famous Summer Berry and Yogurt pie I was reminded of Catherine's review of this...
Eggs – Scrambled – MFK Fisher Style
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher is to cooking what Elizabeth Zimmerman is to knitting, and Gene Logsdon is to farming. Another brilliant, contrary writer! With Bold Knife and Fork is an interesting read. Her entire introduction reads thus; This book is about how I...
Greek Style Yogurt
Thick, creamy yogurt is all the rage and with good cause. Ever since my travels to Germany where I found myself, trudging zombie-like over hills, through hamlets, over church yards with 125 steps (each way) for my daily dose of quark I have been addicted to the stuff....
Family Meal Time
My foray into farm life was certainly idyllic if nothing else. I set my feet in the tall grass of our new pastures with many, many nostalgic dreams in my heart. Looking back now, some 18 years later, I can see with a bit of clarity the ones that were to be and the...
Beard on Bread
James Beard is, to me, the Gene Logsdon of cooking, freakishly knowledgeable in their fields, a bit cranky and quite no-nonsense. I guess that when it comes to farming and cooking I don’t really have time to read someone’s opinion, I want the facts and just facts. ...
Cast iron Cooking
Lately several of my friends have found themselves low in iron and it seems to manifest itself in sluggishness and loss of energy. Iron is a trace mineral that supports growth and development in children, is involved in the production of hemoglobin, and helps to...
Farm Stories, Musings, and Farm News
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