With Easter just around the corner, this past weekend we decided to whip up a little Lamb Chops with a nice mustard au jus sauce. What a treat it turned out to be. In this week’s larder from Moore Farms and Friends, we had several nice-sized rutabagas (not too large, but not too small), a turnip, and a couple of small bunches of greens (one kale, one chard). We slow-steamed the greens over in a mustard sauce, and cooked the rutabagas and…

for my Winter Olympics addiction, (which included an overwhelming desire to spend $3000 on an authentic curling stone) what does Universal Sports go and do? They start broadcasting the 2010 Paralympics from Vancouver, BC. Now I have seen a few of these sports before, like sit skiing, but how about “Giant Slalom for the Visually Impaired?” And if you haven’t ever seen Sledge Hockey, you have not fully lived your life. It is a downright awesome sport. If you don’t think these guys take…

Greens, greens and more greens! All of the rain and cool weather that we have been “enjoying” this summer has reportedly slowed the farm crops down by about two weeks. Spring sprouts are supposed to coming in however, but until then I think it will be root vegetables and greens for a while yet. on another front though, we are supposed to be getting access to fresh stream-fed catfish and pasture raised chicken in just a couple of weeks – yea!

So here is…

After the round-robin week of cabbage wars, I was actually kind of disappointed to not get any more cabbage in this week’s delivery. But we did get a variety of other leafy greens, so we should be set on salads for the week. We also got a mess of fresh Florida citrus; maybe next week I will order some extra and try my hand at making some orange marmalade. Of course that would mean I would have to get a whole bunch of canning…