To be French for breakfast is about savory simplicity, and of course, veggies. These French breakfast radishes will deliver on the taste and morning goodness you need after a big old-fashioned American night's sleep. Add an egg over easy on your toast for more oomph and "staying power" until lunch! You can also wear a beret while you sip your plain espresso shot (not required). Bon appetit!
If you don't believe us, trythis recipe!
Scared of fennel? Afraid it will sit neglected in the fridge out of fear of failure?
It's your lucky week! Check out these fennel tips!
And be sure to check out ourEaster Essentialspage.
Enjoy spring and more veggies coming soon!
Fennel is an herb with a unique flavor profile that can be intimidating. What does it go with? How is it cut? Which parts can't be eaten? (None!) Let this recipe take away your fennel fear of failure and turn it into the star of your meal. Fennel is not just for winter soups, but also spring salads!
My Sweet Yellowbird Family,
I have not written to you in a while as Rebekah, our trusty customer service gal has been at the helm.
I wanted to check in and do my favorite 2 things.
Thank YOU!! You have continued to build our foodshed in a way that is meaningful and sustainable. You made it through another winter (it seems), and we are just weeks away from fresh foods…think ramps, asparagus, spring onions and garlic…the earth is about to give back fresh life!
Poll The Foodshed!! What are we getting right, wrong, and otherwise? Folks, this is YOUR COMPANY. Guess what we aim to do? Whatever YOU want us to do…which is why we need to know.
Send us your thoughts, questions, comments, and requests.
Reply to this email
Email me directly at benji@yellowbirdfs.com
Call me 419-889-7316
Text me 419-889-7316
Write me a letter or better yet come and see us!
Benji Ballmer
13246 Wooster Rd
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
Buying and eating food the way we do is, and always has been, an act of resistance. You might hear me talking about the price of eggs on Instagram but ultimately, this is WAY BIGGER than an egg issue. The mainstream food system is still dirty, corrupt, contaminated, and controlled by monopolies that want us to eat crap that is grown with chemicals, by the hands of people that are underpaid and ignored.
In order to survive and be able to bring you the foods that you buy and eat from your local foodshed, we need you to keep resisting. It can’t be a “once in a while”, or a “shop small business day”, or “when it’s convenient”. Make no mistake, our food is one of THEE MOST important parts of our personal and communal health, and we need to keep it as our top priority when deciding both WHAT to eat, and WHERE we are going to get it from.
Keep doing what you are doing. Tell people about the mission, about our foodshed, and about our continued work to bring food resilience and sustainability to our foodshed…the growers AND the eaters!!
Stay Diligent,
Benji (a fellow member of the Yellowbird Foodshed)
Pak Choi is a tender green you will love in this sweet and zesty chicken meal designed to please everyone in the world. No one could be offended by this flavor--just replace the chicken with tofu if serving vegetarians. But if anyone defies gravity and logic and does NOT like it, the more the pak choi-ier for you!!
Check out this Tokyo Bekana miso slaw recipe! Add more veggies for ultimate fun--some of the produce arriving in your farm share this week are TOKYO BEKANA, hydro head lettuce, lemons, Evercrisp apples, navel oranges, garlic, and yellow storage onions.
Tokyo Bekana is a wonderfully tender Asian green that is actually a variety of Chinese cabbage. It can be cooked, stir fried, or even put in soup, but in this recipe, enjoy this sweet and crisp veg in a miso slaw. This slaw is a great topping for a rice or grain bowl!
See what we have in your farm share FOR YOU this week: Fruits and veggies like DATES, spinach, Granny Smith apples, endive frisee, navel oranges, orange carrots, hydro head lettuce, and All Blue potatoes!
Sweet and savory combine in this chicken recipe featuring DATES, olives and onions in a perfect sauce. Dates are harvested from date palm trees, and are high in fiber, antioxidants, minerals, and help promote brain health. Don't think about that though--just enjoy your date with this chicken dish!
See what we have in your farm share FOR YOU this week: Fruits and veggies like BEET GREENS, strawberry JAM, Honeycrisp apples, yellow storage onions, rainbow carrots, hydro head lettuce, and sweet potatoes!
We know you want to turn up the beet greens in your life. They're good for you, and they're ready to rock in this beef and beet green casserole! Enjoy with some yogurt on the side to calm things down a bit.
Here's a simple soup to go for it and kohlrabi your kohlrabi. Try a new thing, go for a culinary adventure, take the kohlrabi by the leaves and go for it!
Parsnips can play well with others in soups, stir fries, roasted dishes--just don't put them in a carrot cake!
The Irish know how to cook a mean stew, and not waste parsnips to boot! Laugh at the snow falling outside as you enjoy this hearty, filling brew of a stew, with a secret ingredient that is as Irish as it gets. Your parsnips will shine and your belly will be satisfied.
This Simple Black Bean Soup with a Hint of Orange below will give a navel twist to bean soup!
See what's on SALE in the store HERE.
Check out our featured vendor, STUTZMAN FARMS,
and their amazing grains, here!
The Beans, Beans in this soup will help you function like a lean fibrous machine. Let yourself be surprised by the hint of orange as you down this hearty soup topped with creme fraiche alongside some cornbread.
Mom shouts, "Look!"
And the car comes to
an abrupt, jerking stop.
Dad's eyes grow wide.
"Watercress!" they exclaim,
two voices
heavy with memories.
From Watercress by Andrea Wang
Watercress is a rich, leafy power green, with gram for gram more vitamin C than an orange, more iron than spinach, and more calcium than a glass of milk. Like Popeye's spinach, it packs a punch! Flavorful and versatile raw or cooked (even in soup!), it has a slightly peppery flavor like its cousins arugula and mustard greens. This Vietnamese Beef and Watercress meal below will express the best of watercress!
See what's on SALE in the store HERE.
Check out our featured vendor, BROKEN ROCKS BAKERY,
and their amazing breads, here!
