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In a pickle

Posted in food, photo, recipe, vegetables, tagged , on February 9, 2010| 5 Comments »

French breakfast radishes pickling in brine.

Overwhelmed by the amount of radishes that you’ve been seeing in your CSA box? Couldn’t possibly eat them all right away? Pickle them! I didn’t know you could make brine pickles with radishes until I saw a giant jar on top of the barn refrigerator. Thanks to farm intern Jamie for telling me how the pickles were made. Haven’t tried the recipe yet but it looks simple enough. These radishes would be a tasty addition to a meat and cheese sandwich.

Brine-cured pickled radishes

Brine is 1 tbsp. pickling salt to 1 qt. water
cut up or whole radishes
several whole cloves of peeled garlic
several branches of dill

Wash and trim radishes. Wash and chop dill. Put them in a jar along with peeled garlic. Mix up brine and pour over radish mix until just covered. Fill any air space at the top with a plastic bag full of water. It also acts as a weight to hold the radishes down. Cover mouth of the jar with a coffee filter kept in place with string or elastic. Let the pickles sit undisturbed for at least 3 to 5 days. Test the pickles after 5 days, may want to ferment them longer. When they are to your liking, move the jar to chill in the refrigerator. The pickles will keep for several months.

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Potato Pandemonium!

Posted in agritourism, chef, events, farm, food, locavore, vegetables, tagged , , on February 7, 2010|

Join us Wednesday, February 24, 2010 for
A Possum Trot Experience! presented by Bee Heaven Farm

POTATO PANDEMONIUM

Native to the New World Tropics, potatoes are used around the world in many different cuisines. Experience the incredible variety of potatoes at this one-of-a-kind event.

MENU
Potato Vichyssoise Soup with Multicolored Chips
Potato Salad with Carambola Relish
Scallopes Potato with Betel Leaf
Individual Potato Souffles
Parsley Potatoes
Smoked Potato Medley
Meat ‘n Potatoes
Potato Pancakes Topped with Fruit & Cas/Passion Sauce

Your unconventional experience will include sampling from a selection of 35 years’ worth of home-made wines from tropical fruits grown on the farm.

Limited seating in quasi-formal setting in a rustic old Florida farmhouse.
$100 per person * 6:30 pm serving
Come early for an informal class on sustainable cooking techniques and unusual uses for local ingredients.

RSVP with advance payment required by Saturday, February 20th.
Cancellations accepted up to 48 hours prior to event.
No refunds for no-shows or late cancellations.

REGISTER NOW

Where:
Possum Trot Tropical Fruit Nursery
14955 SW 214th St
Miami, FL 33187-4602
305-235-1768

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Chilling out

Posted in csa, food, tagged , on February 3, 2010| 2 Comments »

I’m starting to get overwhelmed by my CSA share. Opened the refrigerator door and all I saw is a sea of green in plastic zipper bags. What was I thinking when I signed on to eat a full share all by myself?? (In full disclosure, I eat what I shoot. The share I photograph goes home with me as compensation.)

Every other week I make “clean out the frig” soup. Last weekend it was a good way to use up the bunch of Greenwise organic celery bought at Publix only three days before the share. (Really, what was I thinking? During season, Publix is best for non-veg staples.) Chopped up that whole bunch to make celery soup, threw in a few stray potatoes and carrots, and chopped up an onion, too. Simmered it in homemade vegetable stock. Was pretty good topped with chopped tofu, cilantro and a drizzle of sesame oil and a dash of hot sauce.

Don’t laugh! Gourmet chef I’m not, nor pretend to be. Just trying to keep ahead of things wilting or going bad. When they do, and it’s happened a few times already, I can hear Margie’s voice or Eva Worden’s voice scolding me about how hard they worked to grow that food for me. (No, I don’t usually hear voices. That’s some leftover Catholic guilt rattling around.)

Made room in the freezer next to leftover soup, and am starting to fill it with plastic zipper bags of blanched veggies. Found information on the UF IFAS Extension website, including a chart of detailed instructions on how to handle various vegetables. First you blanch (or cook briefly in boiling water), chill, then pack and label and store in the freezer. (If you have a garden, or have been a serious cook for a long time, you already know how to do this.) Doesn’t take that long, either. As my dad would say, waste not want not. I think I’m ready for the next share!

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CSA share: week 9

Posted in csa, food, tagged on January 29, 2010|

CSA share: week 9

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Magic mushrooms

Posted in farmer/grower, food, media, tagged , , on January 29, 2010| 3 Comments »

Oyster mushrooms have been a welcome addition to the CSA shares so far twice this season. They are grown at Paradise Farm, and are for sale on Saturdays at the Paradise tent at the Coral Gables Farmers Market, and also on Sundays at the Redland Organics tent at the Pinecrest Gardens Farmers Market. The following article was published in the Miami Herald on Thursday. Nancy Ancrum did a great job, couldn’t do better myself. Enjoy!

Homestead farmer, African scientist realize mushroom dreams

BY NANCY ANCRUM
nancrum@MiamiHerald.com

It was an e-mail that just screamed to be spiked. It came from an African country; it mentioned something about a “lottery;” it hinted that there was a wonderful, enriching opportunity to be had.But Homestead farmer Gabriele Marewski didn’t delete the message. She read it. It wasn’t a scam; it was the world working in mysterious ways.

“Those scam e-mails go right into the spam box. But this one had that first sentence that was intriguing,” Marewski says. “It said, ‘I won the lottery to come to the United States.’ The other ones say, ‘You won the lottery, give us an account number.’ ”

She went from intrigued to hooked when she got to this line: “I can show you how to grow oyster mushrooms.”

“This was too bizarre; so bizarre I had to respond.”

Read the rest of the article here:
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/top-stories/story/1448132.html

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