Ever since our giant San Marzano tomato plants started setting fruit that finally started to ripen last week (after much anticipation), I have been planning on making a fresh tomato sauce with home-made pasta to …
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Making Lidia Bastianich’s Home-Made Pasta Recipe
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Recipe: Simple Summer Tomato Sauce
I’ve been making this recipe since I first learned how to cook. It’s so simple, but the final flavors are perfect. Today I made this sauce with our first harvest of San Marzano tomatoes from …
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Work from Home Lunch: Tomatoes with Tahini and Crispy Chickpeas
Welcome to another week of quarantining and working from home! I’m excited to share this week’s work from home lunch creation, which I’ve really been enjoying. This meal is basically a deconstructed hummus served on …
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Recipe: Super Easy, Bulk Salsa
We have entered the part of summer where the tomatoes and peppers are coming in hot! I picked up giant cases of tomatoes and peppers from my friends at Pickalittle Farm that went unsold to …
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I Made Jose Andres’s Gazpacho
Jose Andres is one of my culinary idols. I grew up outside of Washington DC and had the opportunity to go to a few of his restaurants as a kid, and I almost always visit …
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Recipe – Garden Fresh Chopped Salsa
We currently have all of the ingredients to make salsa, either fresh from our local farm or harvested straight from the garden. Literally nothing could make me happier! For lunch, I made a beautiful garden …
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Recipe: Pasta with Zucchini and Tomatoes
Over the past weekend, we picked up some fresh pasta from Roan Mills, one of our favorite local flour vendors. I had a vision of turning it into a summer-time pasta, filled with zucchini, cherry …
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Recipe: The Ultimate Summer Salad
This is the salad I always make when the first round of summer produce begins trickling in, and many, many times after that throughout the rest of the season. The combination of cucumbers, basil, and …
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Recipe: Turkey Chili with Beans
Recipe for turkey chili using leftover salsa and pantry staples.
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4.21.20 Bakersfield Garden Update
We’ve been doing quite a bit of work around the garden recently, spending our weekends in the Santa Barbara garden and doing some updates around the Bakersfield garden as well. Wanted to give a quick …
