Parker’s Pizza Sauce Recipe

Posted by on 5:44 am, Sep 27, 2011 in About Your Ingredients, Recipes | 0 comments

In the recipe below, Parker Bosley presents a simple and rich pizza sauce. Everyone has their own method of making tomato sauce. I personally take the lazy route and don’t bother with taking the seeds out. I peel and chop the entire tomato and cook it, then put it through the blender, and cook it more. Ingredients: - 4-5 tablespoons olive oil - 1 medium...

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Change to Tomatoes

Posted by on 11:27 am, Sep 7, 2011 in About Your Ingredients, Farms & Farmers | 0 comments

This week, we had to change our tomato selection to slicing tomatoes.  The producer with the heirlooms is old order Amish.  My communications with him are via US Mail.  We expected a delay in mail this week due to Labor Day, so I sent out my letter to him on Saturday as opposed to the usual Monday.  He needed the letter by Wednesday.  The letter did...

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Tomato Soup

Posted by on 9:25 am, Aug 26, 2011 in Recipes | 0 comments

by Jamie B Ingredients: 5 tomatoes Yogurt (from Fresh Fork) Fresh basil, about 7-10 leaves, chopped and stems removed Extra virgin olive oil Salt and pepper to taste Parmesan cheese (optional) Blanch tomatoes.   After removing tomatoes from pot, fill pot with about 1.5 to 2 cups of water and boil.  Peel tomatoes and remove as many seeds as practical....

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Heirloom Tomatoes

Posted by on 9:36 am, Aug 23, 2011 in About Your Ingredients | 0 comments

This week’s feature is heirloom tomatoes.  These tomatoes are considered “heirlooms” because the seeds are generally those of tomatoes grown before industrial agriculture became prevalent.  These are often seeds from plants dating back hundreds of years and often back to Europe. The reason most of these varieties of tomatoes are not grown anymore is...

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Salsa/Veggie Tapanade

Posted by on 10:55 am, Aug 20, 2011 in About Your Ingredients, Recipes | 0 comments

There is no correct way to make a salsa. And if I owned a fancy restaurant I’d probably call my salsa a tapanade so that you would confuse it with something really fancy and would accept my unsual application of the product. In short, salsas are fun, tasty creations that highlight the summer’s bounty. Some people prefer a chunky salsa. Some like the salsa...

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