Zestful Gardens

Stuffed Colored Bell Peppers
Try many different grain/nut/herb combinations. This recipe is easily adaptable to what you have on hand.
Ingredients:

A little oil
2-3 cloves garlic
2 cups chopped onions
3 cups raw brown rice
6 cups water, stock or tomato juice
½ teaspoon allspice
1 cup chopped tomatoes
½ cup grated hard cheese
½ cup chopped, toasted almonds
1 cup thinly sliced basil leaves
Salt and [...]

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Pickled Peppers and Onions with Thyme
These pickled peppers are great as a pizza topping or served with bread and cheese. They will be on the menu at the restaurant Molly Wizenberg discusses opening in her Cooking Life column.
MAKES 1 QUART
Recipe by Molly Wizenberg
Ingredients
1 pound sweet or mild mini bell peppers, sliced crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick rounds, [...]

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Dear CSA Members,
In the Share this Week:
Lettuce
Turnips & Greens
Hot Peppers
Pie Pumpkins
Purple Carrots
German Butterball Potatoes
Red Long of Tropea Onions
Green Beans
Purple Pole Beans
Tomatoes
Today is the first day of Fall! We are kicking off the season with Pie Pumpkins! We had one cooked with butter for dinner last night and it was great. They are also good in [...]

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We’ll start with a quote from Michael Pollan:

“Because it’s hard to imagine ever reforming the American way of eating, or for that matter, the American food system unless millions of Americans—women and men—are willing to make cooking a part of their daily life. The path to a diet of fresher, unprocessed food, not to [...]

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Roasted Tomatoes, Peppers, and Eggplant over Soft Polenta
You may choose to add fennel, zucchini, or green beans to the list of ingredients. Creamy, rosemary-scented polenta offers the perfect pillow to cradle all of the glittering colors.
Ingredients:

2-4 heirloom tomatoes, enough for 2 cups chopped
1 medium eggplant
1 bell pepper, seeded and diced
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
½ [...]

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Farm Hands
Danielle Harrington

Farm hands
they spend their days
nudging the soil
digits wrapped firmly around tool handles
grasping sharp blades to harvest food
coaxing lettuce and fluffing spinach
in cold water

at the end of the day
hands, stiff and sore
like a check list
convey what they have done

the dirt caked fingernails
so densely packed
it takes days to set it free

the growing desert canyon cracks
eroding [...]

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