[Jump to Recipe] It was the first CSA (community supported agriculture) of the year from Isabelle Farms yesterday (2 weeks ago, I didn’t get this post out before vacation, sorry!) and I could not be more excited. Joining a CSA really appeals to me for many reasons: It is organic; I feel part of the community participating in it and love driving to the farm and picking up the produce. This one I don’t actually have to work on the…
[Jump to Recipe] About two months ago my husband and I decided to add more vegetables to our diet. We were already pretty good but felt we needed to jumpstart it. And thus, we joined the green smoothie craze! Morning smoothies are not a new thing for me. My mom has made them, for as far as I can remember, every morning of my entire life. I always marveled, in both a good and a bad way, at what she could…
[Jump to Sweet and Spicy Sesame Miso Dressing Recipe] [Jump to Crispy Tofu Recipe] [Jump to Assembling the Salad] This is my first year growing spinach or, I should say, successfully growing spinach. Greens have always been my achilles heal when gardening. I plant them too late or in too much sun and they just bolt and get bitter on me. I hoped to learn from my mistakes here in Colorado and planted them in mass earlier and then transplanted…
[Jump to Recipe] I don’t have a yard here and grow all of my herbs and edible flowers in pots and planters on the patio. One of these herbs is rosemary, a perennial herb that spent the winter under a grow light inside. It is now spring and time for the rosemary to head back out. Rosemary is a plant that can be hard pruned back at the end of winter/beginning of spring. This helps the plant fill out and be…