by Jillian on November 30, 2011
Last year, it seemed liked Christina and I had beets coming out our ears compliments of our CSA box. This year, it’s butternut squash…ah, the joys of seasonal eating! Fortunately, butternut squash is super versatile and works in a number of recipes. I especially enjoy a bowl of piping hot butternut squash soup. To enhance [...]
by Jillian on October 14, 2011
In my last CSA box, I got my first butternut squash of the season. I’m going to be honest…I was not happy. Any San Franciscan will tell you that we got robbed of a summer this year and receiving an autumnal squash was the sure sign of it ending. But, this story ends happily because [...]
by Jillian on October 8, 2010
I don’t know about the rest of the country, but it’s fall in San Francisco (i.e. it rained over the weekend!). Yet, I’m still getting tomatoes and other late-summer produce in my CSA box. Fortunately, this recipe is the perfect segway into fall; it uses some of summer’s last gifts and isn’t heavy like many [...]
by Christina on October 30, 2009
I’m a HUGE breakfast person, but I am more of an oatmeal or eggs kind of gal and rarely venture into the pancake realm – mainly because it takes more effort to make them. Also, pancakes usually feel dense and heavy to me, which is not the way I want to start my morning. But I [...]
by Christina on October 28, 2009
The arrival of the holiday season officially begins in my house when I pull my pumpkin-spiced candle out of storage and begin receiving sugar pie pumpkins in my CSA box. Both of which happened this week. Sugar pie pumpkins are the sweeter, more dainty version of the jack-o-lantern variety (field pumpkin) and are the best [...]