GOLDEN.

Click the pic to take home pears that are the color of fall.

Pear Streusel Cake
from thebusybaker.ca

INGREDIENTS FOR THE CAKE:

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature

• 3/4 cup white sugar

• 2 eggs, at room temperature

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 1/2 cup milk, at room temperature

• 1/2 cup sour cream, at room temperature (full fat is best)

• 2 cups all purpose flour

• 2 tsp baking powder

• 1/4 tsp salt

• 1 tbsp unsalted butter for greasing the cake pan

• 3-4 fresh pears, peeled and thinly sliced (or 850 ml large can of canned pears)

FOR THE STREUSEL TOPPING:

• 2/3 cup all purpose flour

• 2/3 cup white sugar

• 4 tbsp melted butter

• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Pear Salad with Balsamic and Walnuts
from LoveandLemons.com

Ingredients:

• 4 cups mixed salad greens

• 2 ripe pears, sliced

• 1 fennel bulb, sliced paper thin

• Lemon wedge

• 2 tablespoons dried cranberries

• 1 tablespoon chopped pecans

• 1 tablespoon chopped walnuts

• 1 tablespoon chopped hazelnuts, or more pecans or walnuts

• ⅓ cup shaved pecorino

• Balsamic Vinaigrette, for drizzling

• Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

SOME LIKE IT HOT.

(Spicy Shishito Pepper.)

SOME LIKE IT NOT.

(Sweet Bull's Horn Pepper.)

Make life easier...it's time to stock your freezer! 

GARLIC POWER.

This Garlic Parmesan Roasted Broccoli recipe is a simple and flavorful way to elevate this nutritious vegetable. It's perfect as a side for any meal and is sure to become a favorite in your household. Enjoy!

Ingredients:
1 pound broccoli florets
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:
Preheat your oven to 425°F. In a large mixing bowl, toss the broccoli florets with olive oil and minced garlic until they are well coated. Spread the broccoli evenly on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or aluminum foil. Season the broccoli with salt and pepper to taste. Roast the broccoli in the preheated oven for about 15-20 minutes or until the edges are slightly crispy and browned. Remove the baking sheet from the oven and immediately sprinkle the grated Parmesan cheese over the roasted broccoli. Toss the broccoli lightly to ensure the cheese is distributed evenly.

Serve hot as a delicious and healthy side dish! 

Farm. Us. You.

Tomato Pepper Sauce

Fastest way to utilize tomatoes and peppers in a fun "all purpose" sauce:

1. Blend 4-5 large cored tomatoes (with skin if good blender, and can even throw in cherry tomatoes!), 4-5 small to medium cored peppers of any kind, a can of coconut milk, 1 cup chicken broth, 1T sugar or honey, 2 peeled garlic cloves or 1T minced garlic, 1T onion powder, 1 tsp salt, and a little chili powder.
2. Sauté some diced onions and peppers and 2 lbs of ground chicken Italian sausage or cut links, then pour the blended sauce over meat and heat all together in the pan.
3. Serve with rice or pasta! Tried this last night, and everyone (including some kids I know) loved it.

These are called Ground Cherries, or "Choke Cherries".  They have a husk that you need to remove and eat the little fruit inside.

I describe them as starting like a pineapple, and finishing with a vanilla flavor.  

The coolest way I have ever eaten them is with the husk peeled back but the fruit was still attached.  They were then dunked into chocolate so that you would grab the husk and pull the chocolate-covered fruit out...I think I ate the whole carton this way.

Gorgeous bounty galore this week! As the fair announcer says before Demolition Derby, let's get ready to rumble! We have a lot of fun things developing at YB right now.

• fall tour poster in the works

• new employee's joining the team (think better social media)

• new partnerships developing (think chefs and foragers)

• new products being procured 

• events being planned (think supper clubs)

Time to start over.

Week #1 of 2023

This is our 10th YEAR!!  Are you freaking kidding me?!?

I've got good news for you...WE BUILT A FOODSHED
 

Week #52

OJ's people...get your C's up!!

For the past couple of winters, we have fought off scurvy here in Ohio with some help from our friends down in Florida.

Thorpes Organic Farm has THEE BEST OJ you have ever tasted...this isn't an opinion...it's a FACT.

Their kids have a farm in New York and when they send shipments of produce and juice up north, we drive our van over, pull a roadside heist, and take what we can from them...just like true pirates.  
Fly The Colors

Greens and Reds.

This week our produce extraordinaire, Chase Bailey has had his Santa hat on and a twinkle in his eye as he planned your box contents.

RED rosie pak choi
mustard GREENS
RED onion
RED and GREEN gem lettuce
collard GREENS
RED and GREEN apples
beet GREENs
RED turnips
RED diakon radish

It's that time of year...when the world falls in love!

Have you been playing Christmas music, watching your favorite seasonal movies, and making your favorite seasonal dishes?
A couple of times over the last few weeks we have thrown sweet potatoes into the instant pot.  When they are done, the skins just peel off and they are ready to go. 

I remember being 23, newly engaged, and very broke. Trav was still in school, making minimum wage at a coffee shop and we were just actively filling out applications and hoping for something to come along. We prayed in the parking lot of a Whole Foods and by the time we got back to our car Trav had a missed call from James Smith (MVNU) that his pal was looking for a truck driver for his veggie business and he was wondering if he would be interested. We met Benji and his family barefoot in the park to “interview” and it felt like we were meeting our people. Yellowbird was a huge blessing then, and it has continued to be a blessing for our family.