CSA Archives - Vegetating with Leslie

The 10 Most Important Things I’ve Learned About Healthy Eating Over 50 Years

On: October 24, 2017October 24, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

I’m not a scientist, nor am I a medical professional. I just love well-prepared food and a feeling of good health. I like to read and test out on myself theories that make sense and judge them based on experience. These are

On: October 16, 2017October 24, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Published in Bob’s Fresh and Local Newsletter 10/16/2017 Our dry early spring and late planting brings us a bonus in our fall harvest…lots of beautiful peppers, sweet ones, spicy ones, beautiful colored ones. This versatile recipe works for any combination of peppers.

On: September 26, 2017September 28, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Published in Bob’s Fresh and Local CSA newsletter, 9/27/2017 When I got cold, working in a food trailer during the winters, I decided to move inside to work. For a while, before I opened my Woodstock cafe, I had a little concession

On: September 12, 2017July 3, 2020 By: Leslie Cook

Published in Bob’s Fresh and Local Newsletter, 9/13/2017 I felt the first chill in the air while I was camping in Door County last week, and I thought with dismay that we’re closer to the end of summer than the beginning. Speaking

On: September 5, 2017October 24, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Published in Bob’s Fresh and Local Farm Newsletter 9/6/2017. Remember the Pixar movie, Ratatouille? My grandson showed it to me a couple of years ago as part of his educate grandma project. I loved it! This week I thought it might be

A Time of Plenty…CSA Veggies this week

On: August 29, 2017September 12, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

A few things I made this week. No recipes really. Just use the pictures to inspire yourself. I’ll tell you what I used in the captions to the pictures: Such a beautiful place to work on a day like this …

On: August 8, 2017August 9, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Published this week in my CSA newsletter, Bob’s Fresh and Local. My favorite recipes are healthy, colorful, beautiful, meals-in-themselves, easy and versatile. This week, I had some remaining red cabbage, and our boxes featured the first onions and green beans of the

A little of this, a little of that…an alphabet of things to make with CSA veggies

On: July 24, 2017August 26, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

This post was published in Bob’s Fresh and Local newsletter 7/25/2017 It was fun to have so much variety last week and even more variety this week. I thought I might share a few things I made as well as what I

On: July 11, 2017April 10, 2020 By: Leslie Cook

So let’s just boil the cabbage once or even not at all! Oh, those beautiful cabbages, the red one, the green one. The humble cabbage turns out to be one of my favorite veggies. I make red cabbage slaw, green cabbage slaw,

On: July 4, 2017August 26, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Published in Bob’s Fresh and Local CSA Newsletter, 7/5/2017 I’m excited to know that we have garlic scapes coming through again this week along with Bok Choi, kale, cabbage and Swiss chard, all favorites among my family and friends. My son makes