Make your potatoes a beautiful shade of purple blue, without dye and without even trying. Prepared just like traditional gold or white potatoes, these will surprise and delight your Thanksgiving guests (without even trying!). Here's a simple recipe to help you breathe a sigh of relief during your final meal prep. You have bigger things to worry about, like that needy turkey in the oven!
(Mouthwatering Bone-IN Ribeye Steak pictured above)
About Tall Grass Ranch:
Brian is dedicated to farming the right way; with sustainability as his driving force. All the cattle raised on this small farm in Amesville are 100% grass-fed and finished; never receiving any processed feed or growth hormones.
Bosc pears hold up well, and their sweetness will "pear well" with the tender beef in this perfectly savory blend of satisfying fall flavors. Sliced and braised, these pears will make the meal. Pear it with a salad or your veggie of choice, and some crusty bread!
("Delicate" by Taylor Swift)
Delicata=delicate skin. Therefore, a person can eat it. And add it to soup without peeling! Here's a delectable squash soup for the ages, a soothing and filling weeknight way to use the delicata in your life! Things may be delicate in the world of teen romance, but you can always trust your delicata faithfully making its way to you in your YB farm share. If you cook this while listening to Taylor Swift, bonus points!
This is apple cider donuts, elevated. Simple yet fancy, moist yet crisp, this cake will get devoured whether it travels to a fall football game or an autumnal tea party. Now you can be a part of the apple cider donut action like all the super cool Ohio apple farms around you!
Lovely, packed-with-nutrition eggses from pasture-raised chickens and ducks at Sweet Grass, Copia, and Bojacal farms--our featured vendors this week. Available a la carte or for chicken eggs, as a subscription (weekly, biweekly and monthly options available). These are the best deal in town! Go to our Insta page for more!
Our superhero acorn squash contains vitamins B1, B6, folate, magnesium, potassium, manganese, along with plenty of fiber and vitamin C! Let this green and orange avenger protect you from any immune system attack this fall. And stuffing it with plenty of sausage won't hurt your cause either.
Be ready to salute this Delicata Squash, Apple and Chorizo Galette for its fall goodness and sweet and savory crunch. The galette crust will bring together the flavors of sausage, hearty Delicata squash, sweet tart Pixie Crunch apple and tangy, dusky blue cheese. The smell as it bakes will bring together your family for a cozy evening meal!
Family, we are always talking with our farmers and many have expressed this same sentiment: Because we have had this relentless rainy cool weather, some of the plants are not doing well. Discoloration and "slimy-ness" are directly attributable to this weather.
In the fall with the decreasing amount of sun intensity the plants are not as resilient. Growth slows and bad actors start to make their move, attacking in the form of disease that thrives without the sun to maintain a dry and UV rich environment.
We are always actively keeping the produce fresh, but also always want to keep you in the loop--just having some of the usual fall bouts with Sweet Mother Nature.
It's potato soup; it's so good; it means fall is here and you need a place for your scallions to rest atop a bed of creamy potatoes with pancetta. And you need some bread from Berlin Natural Bakery to go with it!
Garlic, tofu, pesto, and pasta--the perfect combo of fresh and easy for dinner! Blend up the pesto, boil the pasta, saute the garlic, mushroom and onion, and voila! Your household is happily eating in less than half an hour.
Foodshed = beautiful
So many veggies as we approach fall THIS WEEK. Butternut squash is about as fall as it gets, aside from picking pumpkins and bobbing for apples. Why not stuff the squash with other goodness like veggies and quinoa? And why not try it with your butter baby squash in your box? You really can't go wrong with all these real ingredients cooked up into a cozy cucurbita meal.
The fall is speeding closer. The calendar is getting fuller. The meals must not get...sadder. Add this super easy Pork Chops recipe to your arsenal as you get-er-done this fall! Savory spices with sweet and tart honeycrisp apples will comfort you as summer is almost over. Use the honeycrisps and umami seasoning both straight from your box!
Adapted from CoCoBean Country
Asian pears are everyone's favorite cousin to Bartlett. They have perfect, glowing skin, and don't get so splotchy. Bartlett is also jealous of its cousin's crisp delicate crunch, since it can be a softie. Try this salad with Asian pears on a bed of Yellowbird greens, boasting unique flavors to wake up your palate. These pears will make your salad feel fancy!
1 T ginger, grated, or substitute dried
1 tsp Asian mustard or substitute sweet hot mustard
1/2 tsp ground white pepper
2 T rice vinegar or substitute white balsamic vinegar
2 T maesil (Korean tea, or substitute green tea)
1.5 T sesame oil or substitute olive oil
1 T mirin (Japanese rice wine, or substitute extra white rice vinegar)
1 T soy sauce
Fruit and Vegetables
1 large Asian pear, cut into 0.25 in thick slices
1 large cucumber, sliced
3 – 4 scallions, greens and whites sliced thinly
1 red chili, sliced, or substitute yummy peppers
Leafy greens
1/2 large bunch minari, cut into bite sized pieces (water parsley, can sub flat parsley or celery)
1/3 head romaine, cut into large pieces
3 large handfuls spring mix
Finishing
Toasted sesame seeds
In a small bowl add the ginger, Caribbean seasoning, mustard and pepper. Mash together until the mustard is dissolved and the pepper and seasoning are well combined. Add the remaining dressing ingredients mixing well. Taste and adjust seasoning as desired. Set aside.
In a medium mixing bowl toss the fruit and vegetables with 2 T of the dressing. Toss until everything is well coated. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes along with the dressing until needed.
Toss the leafy greens with 2.5 T of the dressing to just coat them. Divide among plates and top with some of the marinated fruit and vegetables. Drizzle a little extra dressing over everything. Top each plate with some sesame seeds.
Serve with bread and some pork or lamb chops!
