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Fresh Produce Tuesday – Swiss Chard Recipes

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Swiss Chard Recipes

Fresh Produce Tuesday is finally back this week with some great swiss chard recipes!  I apologize for the 2 week hiatus, but I needed a little blogging break and am now feeling quite reinvigorated.  My local CSA had it’s first pick-up last Saturday…I was so excited to pick it up.  Here’s an instagram I took of my first bounty (on a side note, you can follow us on Instagram under the username 2sisters2cities!)

There was no swiss chard in this week’s pick-up, but there was some Red Russian kale, a variety that I had never tried before.  I actually took the above photo of the swiss chard a few weeks ago.  I used it to make a simple recipe of penne pasta, italian sausage, swiss chard, and grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.  Here are 10 more swiss chard recipes I have found that look really good:

Swiss Chard Recipes from Around the Web:

Swiss Chard Recipes from Other Bloggers:

Please link up any recipes with swiss chard as an ingredient.  Feel free to submit as many recipes as you want!

If you are looking for more recipe ideas for fresh produce, please be sure to check out the Fresh Produce Tuesday tag.  We have a large assortment of recipes for  Asparagus, Artichokes, Spring Onions, Peas, Garlic Scapes & Spring Garlic, Rhubarb, Fava Beans, Radishes, Lettuce, Morels, Strawberries, Kale, and Carrots.  Check back in next Tuesday, July 17th for raspberry recipe ideas and on July 25th for zucchini recipes.

Fresh Produce Tuesday- Week #13: Carrot Recipes

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I thought this week might be challenging to find a lot of different carrot recipes, but I definitely underestimated how many ways one can eat carrots.  Although carrots can be found year-round in supermarkets, it’s always interesting to try out the various varieties and colors of carrots available from local farms.  If you open yet another CSA box full of carrots and think “les carottes sont cuites” (translation: the carrots are cooked, meaning: you’re done for), here are 10 carrot recipes to get culinary inspiration.

Carrot Recipes from Around the Web:

Carrot Recipes from Other Bloggers:

Please link up any recipes with carrots as an ingredient.  Feel free to submit as many recipes as you want!

If you are looking for more recipe ideas for fresh produce, please be sure to check out the Fresh Produce Tuesday tag.  We have a large assortment of recipes for  Asparagus, Artichokes, Spring Onions, Peas, Garlic Scapes & Spring Garlic, Rhubarb, Fava Beans, Radishes, Lettuce, Morels, Strawberries, and Kale.  Check back in next Tuesday, June 26th for our Chard post and on Tuesday, July 3rd for recipe ideas for Raspberries.

Fresh Produce Tuesday- Week #12: Kale Recipes

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Kale is a vegetable that I have come to embrace in the summer over the past few years.  It’s extremely nutritious and a great addition to so many recipes.  I love to steam or sauté some up and add it to pasta dishes, but I’m really looking forward to making kale chips later this week!  Here are 10 kale recipes that sound amazing:

Please link up your kale recipes below.   It would be great if you could link back to 2 Sisters 2 Cities on kale post, but it is not required.  Readers, please “like” the  kale recipes below that you like the best!

If you have been getting lots of spring produce at your farmers market or CSA, be sure to check out the past weeks of our Fresh Produce Tuesday series for recipe ideas.  We have tons of recipes for  Asparagus, Artichokes, Spring Onions, Peas, Garlic Scapes & Spring Garlic, Rhubarb, Fava Beans, Radishes, Lettuce, Morels, and Strawberries.  Please visit 2 Sisters 2 Cities again in the next couple of weeks as we are featuring carrots on June 19th and chard on June 26th.  Anyone have any produce nominations for the month of July?

Fresh Produce Tuesday- Week #11: Strawberry Recipes

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For this week’s Fresh Produce Tuesday series, we are featuring  many amazing strawberry recipes.  Strawberries are my all-time favorite fruit.  I enjoy them almost year-round, but the most delicious ones are the fresh, local strawberries found every June from local farms.  I love that strawberries are so versatile- I enjoy them in a smoothie or with Greek yogurt in the morning, with a spinach salad for dinner,  in a sweet dessert, or I just pop them in my mouth just as they are.

I’ve been noticing fresh spring produce is abundant lately at the farmer’s markets.  Here are  recipe ideas for Asparagus, Artichokes, Spring Onions, Peas, Garlic Scapes & Spring Garlic, Rhubarb, Fava Beans, Radishes, Lettuce, and Morels in case you missed any of the previous weeks of our series.

I made this strawberry shortcake recipe a few weeks ago and loved how it turned out.  I was a little shocked how much heavy cream was used in the shortcake base alone, but it created a perfectly tasting cake to douse with strawberries and whipped cream.

Here are 9 additional strawberry recipes that I love:

Here’s your chance to link up you favorite strawberry recipe.   It would be great if you could link back to 2 Sisters 2 Cities or add our button to your strawberry  post (our button can be found on the top of the right-hand column), but it is not required.  Readers, please “like” the recipes below that you like the best!

Here is the Fresh Produce Tuesday schedule for the next few weeks:

Week #12- June 12th: Kale
Week #13- June 19th: Carrots
Week #14- June 26th:  Chard

Fresh Produce Tuesday- Week #10: Morel Recipes

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This week, I am trying a new type of produce that I have never cooked with before- morels.  I always like to extend my culinary knowledge however and really wanted to see what all the fuss about morels was about.  I tried to pull together a list of morel recipes that I’ve always wanted to try, but I haven’t been able to wrap my head around the price of morels (I paid $19.99 for .75 ounces of dried wild morels…yikes!)  Of course, you could try to forage for morels yourself, but it’s advised to always do so with an expert as many similar looking varieties of mushrooms can be quite toxic (and some even deadly.)

Here are 10 Morel Recipes that look quite appetizing:

Food bloggers, please link up your morel recipes below. It would be great if you could link back to 2 Sisters 2 Cities or add our button to your morel post (our button can be found on the top of the right-hand column), but it is not required. :)  Readers, please “like” the recipes below that you like the best!

Here is the Fresh Produce Tuesday schedule for the next few weeks:

Week #11- June 5th: Strawberries
Week #12- June 12th: Kale
Week #13- June 19th: Carrots

In case you missed any of the previous weeks, here are recipe ideas for Asparagus, Artichokes, Spring Onions, Peas, Garlic Scapes & Spring Garlic, Rhubarb, Fava Beans, Radishes, and Lettuce.

Fresh Produce Tuesday- Week #9: Lettuce Recipes

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For this week’s Fresh Produce Tuesday series, we are featuring recipes for all the great varieties of local lettuce available in the spring.  Some of the lettuce varieties include arugula, mesclun, oak leaf lettuce, butter lettuce, mache, romaine hearts, and watercress.  (If you want to learn more all the types and test your lettuce knowledge, Steamy Kitchen has an on-line quiz with 21 varieties of lettuce.)  Lettuce is the mainstay of most salads, but I can’t wait to see what other lettuce recipes others have for their greens.

We spent most of the weekend recuperating from last weekend’s pig roast.  On Saturday, we did take Baby T to two local farms.  Weir River Farm in Hingham, MA opens up their animal barnyard area every Saturday from 10am-2pm.  T loved checking out the horses, sheep, pigs (and brand new piglets!), chickens, and cows.  Then, we headed over to Holly Hill Farm in Cohasset, MA for their annual plant sale.  I picked up a few herbs for container plants (and sadly, not my raised garden boxes.)  Their honor-system farm stand was also open and I was able to pick up the arugula seen in the picture above.

Here are ten lettuce recipe ideas:

 
Food bloggers, please link up your favorite lettuce recipe below.  Feel free to submit your favorite salad dressing recipes as well.  Readers, please “like” the recipes that find most appetizing.  Please keep us posted on any recipes you try!

Here is the Fresh Produce Tuesday schedule for the next few weeks:

Week #10- May 29th: Morels
Week #11- June 5th: Strawberries
Week #12- June 12th: Kale

In case you missed any of the previous weeks, here are recipe ideas for Asparagus, Artichokes, Spring Onions, Peas, Garlic Scapes & Spring Garlic,Rhubarb, Fava Beans, and Radishes.

 

Fresh Produce Tuesday- Week #8: Radishes

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It’s radish day today as part of our Fresh Produce Tuesday series.  I can’t say that I love radishes, but I’m always on the look-out for recipes that may help me change that.  Radishes have that straight from the earth feel to them.  In fact, according to Wikipedia, there are some varieties of radishes from seed to a little plant in just 3 days!

If you live in the Boston area, be sure to stop by the Copley Farmers Market for it’s opening day today from 11am-6pm.  I used to work nearby and stopped by that market twice a week (Tuesday and Friday.)  It’s a wonderful market and one of the things I miss most about living in the city!  My favorite vendors are Siena Farm (lots of produce variety), Gilson’s Herb Lyceum (great herbs to plant), Atlas Farm (best tomatoes!), Stillman’s at the Turkey Farm (for meat).  I also would always grab lunch from Crystal Brook Farms– they have the best goat cheese picnic to go (the brown bag usually has a tub of marinated goat cheese, fresh bread, and a trail mix).

Here are some recipes that I have pulled together that feature radishes:

Please share your favorite radish recipe by clicking the blue “Click Here to Enter” link:

If you missed any of the past weeks, here are links to each type of produce we have featured: Asparagus, Artichokes, Spring Onions, Peas, Garlic Scapes & Spring Garlic, Rhubarb, and Fava Beans.  All of the linky tools are still open if you still would like to submit a recipe for any of these weeks.

Our Fresh Produce Tuesday line-up for the next few weeks is as follows:
Week #9- May 22nd: Lettuces
Week #10- May 29th: Morels
Week #11- June 5th: Strawberries

I hope you’ll continue to join us in celebrating a new type of produce each week as the growing season really starts to heat up.

Fresh Produce Tuesday- Week #7: Fava Beans

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We are featuring fava beans today as part of our Fresh Produce Tuesday series. If you missed any of the past weeks, here are links to each type of produce we have featured: Asparagus, Artichokes, Spring Onions, Peas, Garlic Scapes & Spring Garlic, and Rhubarb.

Here is the schedule for the next five weeks:
Week #7- May 8th: Fava Beans
Week  #8- May 15th: Radishes
Week #9- May 22nd: Lettuces
Week #10- May 29th: Morels
Week #11- June 5th: Strawberries

Fava beans are a little annoying to write about because spellcheck automatically changes the word fava to lava every single time! They are quite delicious though and will soon be popping up in Farmers Markets and CSA boxes. I found these great sounding recipes to prepare fava beans:

Fellow food bloggers, please link up your fava bean recipe below!

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