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Salads of Summer

On: August 1, 2017August 26, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

The colors are coming, the colors of summer, sunshine on a plate, beautiful and strong…corn, summer squash, multi-colored beans, carrots, chard, fennel and more. But the most beautiful color of all, the deepest and richest…beets! Beet Couscous. I didn’t get to this

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Stuffed Cabbage Rolls for Dinner

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls for dinner - or anything else you can imagine. Stuffed squash. Stuffed onion. Stuffed grape leaves.
On: July 11, 2017November 25, 2021 By: Leslie Cook

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls! A beautiful and wonderfully delicious stuffed cabbage dish. Good for squash or grape leaves too.

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Fridays I like to cook at the shul

On: June 26, 2017June 27, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Our kitchen at the shul needs a little work, but it’s big and bright and airy, and I like to cook there on Fridays, prepare a little something for our Friday evening dinners, which more and more of our little family on

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Saving The Planet: Eat Your Greens, But Don’t Forget Those Roots

On: June 19, 2017September 12, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Published in Bob’s Fresh and Local CSA Newsletter, 6/21/2017. If you are interested in sustainable agriculture, and your CSA membership says you are, you probably know that those veggies are a lot easier on the environment and our water resources than animal

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5 Ways to Use This Week’s CSA Veggies

On: June 13, 2017June 15, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Prepared for Bob’s Fresh and Local CSA. Visit them on Facebook. This week we’ll enjoy a wonderful variety of spring greens, mostly Asian and from the mustard family, including Mizuna, Tokyo Bekana, Hon Tsai Tai and Tatsoi as well as the more

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How My CSA Box Keeps My Family Healthy

On: May 26, 2017March 26, 2018 By: Leslie Cook

After 45 years as an off-and-on vegetarian (20 of them strictly vegetarian) including 7 years of owning and operating a vegetarian cafe, I decided four years ago to explore an entirely plant-based diet. This makes Farmer Bob’s CSA “Meal Boxes” (as I like

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Introducing Meal Boxes! Beautiful CSA Veggies On The Way

On: May 26, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Maybe you’ve heard about “meal kits.” These are packaged and shipped individual meals to make up fresh at home with recipes and pre-measured ingredients. Meal kits are quite an advance over TV dinners with their fresh whole foods and recipes that often

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CSA Greens: Bok Choi & Radish Stir Fry

On: May 26, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

We will soon enjoy lots of spring greens in our boxes, and that’s great, because I LOVE greens and missed Bob’s beautiful assortment over the winter. Here’s what I do with them (other than the salad I make first thing when I

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Cooking, Pulling Weeds And Resisting

On: May 18, 2017June 1, 2018 By: Leslie Cook

I never thought I’d hear myself say this: Trump gave me a huge gift when he was elected. It’s hard to imagine myself saying that because my inspiration usually comes from very different kinds of sources. Yet perhaps it’s just the mind-

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Inch By Inch And Row By Row…

On: May 17, 2017May 20, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Today was my first day back at the farm for the season. Although it was my first day, others have been hard at work, installing a new greenhouse (greens through December! yay!), planting starter plants, getting in leeks and garlic and greens

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Videos! – These Once Were Lost But Now Are Found

  • Cafe Days Videos (5)

Farm Days

  • Just two weeks ago, our beautiful yellow summer squash was a small yellow flower.
  • A few root veggies, washed and ready to cut up for dipping in hummus and muhammara. I'll take a platter to a July 4 party...
  • Those seeds a couple of weeks ago...
  • ...are now tomato plants and more ready to go into the ground.
  • The old greenhouse...and our big beautiful new one.
  • Compost pile where I get to take my veggie waste every week.
  • Garlic rows for hand weeding.
  • First box from the CSA: Bok choy, Chard, Kale, Spinach, Boston Lettuce, Radishes, Carrots, Mint.
  • My 40 year old boots.
  • Farm Days
    Farm Days

Cafe Days

  • Brown Lentil Soup with Spinach
    Brown Lentil Soup with Spinach
  • Water challah or "berches" for Shabbat.
    Water challah or "berches" for Shabbat.
  • Kefta Sandwich
    Kefta Sandwich
  • Red Lentil Soup
    Red Lentil Soup
  • Moroccan Carrot Salad
    Moroccan Carrot Salad
  • Food - real food, that is: Roasted Veggie Platter
    Food - real food, that is: Roasted Veggie Platter
  • Black Bean Soup - great in winter when you want something warm and substantial when you come in from the cold ... or before you go out into it!
    Black Bean Soup - great in winter when you want something warm and substantial when you come in from the cold ... or before you go out into it!
  • For some, a reaction to certain sugars masquerades as a problem with gluten. Spelt is wheat, but it's a type of wheat that is low FODMAP and therefore easier to digest.
    For some, a reaction to certain sugars masquerades as a problem with gluten. Spelt is wheat, but it's a type of wheat that is low FODMAP and therefore easier to digest for many.
  • Hummus ... everybody's favorite.
    Hummus ... everybody's favorite.
  • Sweet Pepper Salad -- one of a group of beautiful Middle Eastern salads to serve up for Shabbat -- or any meal.
  • Process for Lebanese Potato Salad.
    Process for Lebanese Potato Salad.
  • This creamy and delicious potato salad includes lots of fresh dill and crunchy dill pickles..
    This creamy and delicious potato salad includes lots of fresh dill and crunchy dill pickles..
  • Red Cabbage Slaw
    Red Cabbage Slaw
  • Veggie Cholent with Beid Hamin, Slow-Cooked Eggs.
    Veggie Cholent with Beid Hamin, Slow-Cooked Eggs.
  • Lebanese Potato Salad - my version.
    Lebanese Potato Salad - my version.
  • Chermoula Eggplant, not as beautiful as Ottolenghi's but very easy and tasty.
    Chermoula Eggplant, not as beautiful as Ottolenghi's but very easy and tasty.
  • A gluten-free vegan "no-meat loaf" I made in my cafe.
    A gluten-free vegan "no-meat loaf" I made in my cafe.
  • Vegan Spinach Pesto on Homemade Challah with Tuscan Bean Soup
  • The finished greens and onions! What I don't eat for lunch will go into our rice and greens stir fry this evening.
  • Stuffed Cabbage Rolls for dinner - or anything else you can imagine. Stuffed squash. Stuffed onion. Stuffed grape leaves.
    Stuffed Cabbage Rolls for dinner - or anything else you can imagine. Stuffed squash. Stuffed onion. Stuffed grape leaves.
  • Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup
  • Split Pea Soup with Barley
  • Last but not least...after two years of thinking and experimenting, I decided to add occasional eggs back into our diet, and this is a wonderful plate of stir-fry greens, pan roasted sweet potatoes and scrambled eggs. My decision was based on my thoughts about interdependence, and when I was able to find someone who keeps their chickens (doesn't kill them after their two peak laying years), I decided I would make the pilgrimage out to get eggs periodically and would eat those. I wish I could raise my own! But this is good for now. More about this thought process later.
  • Ratatouille Soup with chunks of eggplant, zucchini squash, patty pan squash, summer squash, onion, tomatoes, tomato paste, mixed greens, oregano, basil, salt and hot paprika.
  • Pasta salad with CSA veggies.
  • Stir Fry with Kohlrabi greens, Bok choy, green onions, radishes, lots of sliced onion, garlic, a bit of red bell pepper, sauteed tofu squares, brown Basmati rice, salt, hot paprika, extra virgin olive oil, a bit of soy sauce...mmm hmmm, can't beat that.
  • Cold Cucumber Soup, upper right
  • Corn and potato chowder. Saute chopped onion in extra virgin olive oil, add some cut up carrots. When soft, add lots of cut up potato and organic corn. Cut up greens come in at the end when finished cooking. I think I might have used kale or maybe a mix of kale and Bok choy for this, but any tender greens are fine. It was simply seasoned with salt and pepper, and I happened to have some fresh marjoram as well.
  • Collard Green Wraps
  • Italian style potato salad.
  • Moroccan Style Green Beans
  • FUL . . . serve it up as part of a mezze (appetizer table), as a main dish, a side dish, hot, cold . . . or for breakfast.
  • Spicy Olive Salad
  • Moroccan Beet Salad
  • Julienned beets with added red onion and cilantro.
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    Cafe Days

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