Tag: carrots

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Josephine’s favorite carrot recipe First, I just want to remind you that your carrots will stay much crisper if you remove the tops before storage.  Every year I make this spiced carrot and chickpea salad!  It’s one of my favorite things.  And it uses a…

Carrots! Salamanders!

Carrots! Salamanders!

A lot of firsts in the share this week!  First carrots, first squash and zucchini, and the first tomatoes for the full shares.  There’s a lot more of each of those on the way in the coming weeks.   We recommend taking the greens off of…

North African Spiced Goat Stew with Okra and Sweet Potatoes

North African Spiced Goat Stew with Okra and Sweet Potatoes

This hearty, aromatic stew is super satisfying.  I love this recipe because we grow and raise everything that goes in it!  Except for the spices, that is.  Now in January, we still have sweet potatoes and carrots in storage, and the freezer is stocked with…

On Thinning

On Thinning

Now that I have thinned a third of a mile of carrots, I feel entitled to subject you to my musings on the topic.  For those who don’t know, thinning refers to pulling out all the plants that are too close together.  Many of the…

Changing of the seasons

Changing of the seasons

It is time to say goodbye to the green leafiness of spring.  This week may be the last for lettuce.  The kale has given up the ghost.  A few lonely turnips and kohlrabi remain.  The chard has slowed down considerably.  The spinach and arugula have…

Eat More Cabbage: Simple Slaw with Raisins and Parsley

Eat More Cabbage: Simple Slaw with Raisins and Parsley

Here at Tubby Creek Farm, we can grow some cabbage.  It’s good to know that come hell or high water, we will have cabbage.  When winter weather has turned our fall lettuces into goo, cabbage slaw makes a nice stand-in for crunchy green salad.  There…

Proof that we really are growing vegetables

Proof that we really are growing vegetables

I know, you read the blog and you look at the pictures and you think, where are the vegetables?  Seems like all we are doing is tinkering with the tractor and driving it around in circles (I understand, sometimes it feels that way to me,…