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Swedish cucumber salad a la Farmor Tild

We’ve been getting English cucumbers in our CSA box the past couple of weeks, and they are ideal for this recipe. Our CSA also supplied the fresh dill and the shallots.

This cucumber salad was always part of Sunday dinners at Grandma Tild’s house during the summer.
I couldn’t find one recipe that was exactly the way I [...]

Red Russian Kale chips

OK, here’s a picture of this week’s batch of kale chips, made with the Red Russian Kale we got in our CSA box.

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Probably the first thing you’re noticing about Red Russian kale is that it’s not red. [Well, the stems are, but for kale chips you cut away the stems [...]

In which my kid’s friends are dazzled by… kale chips!

Tildified™ for your enjoyment, based on this Tot brand vegetables crate label

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My sons are no longer tots (unless 6’2″ young adults qualify for tot-hood) but they do indeed love leafy greens, especially when those leafy greens are transformed [by a little olive oil & sea salt & roasting in an oven] into crispy chips.

My youngest (the almost-20 [...]

CAMC Week 1: Red Russian kale, turnip chips, Zevia mojitos

After 3 consecutive years of waiting too long before trying to sign up with a CSA and then finding all the shares sold out, this year I took no chances. There was still snow on the ground here in late March when I signed on with Rock Spring Farm for a full summer vegetable share. [...]