Mother Nature and the Farmers told me we should have Potatoes, Garlic, Onions, Kale or Chard, Salad Mix, Tomatoes, Summer Squash, Sweet Corn, Beets, Cantaloupe and early Peaches. We will see!
You can order the first Raspberries from the Austins if you click on the Extras button on the Products page. There is not enough to go around to the boxes.
Continue Reading Add comment August 4th, 2008
Oh my goodness, It is official! I got my new dishwasher installed and my health Inspection and now I am officially open to serve you the rest of the summer with a 4-course Saturday Supper and a Sunday
Brunch every Weekend, so come on over soon! Thanks, Dava
Continue Reading 1 comment July 30th, 2008
We have a good box for you this week and some new recipes, let's
hope! We have Cherries, Potatoes, Onions, Salad Mix, Tomato,
Cilantro, Garlic, Kale, Romaine Lettuce, Sugar Snaps and Snow Peas.
Wahoo! It's looking like summer! I think it will be one more week on
one size box and then next week we will have enough food to split
into half and full size. I may change my mind on that during pack
out, we will see.
Continue Reading Add comment June 29th, 2008
Hello Good People,
I am making the journey over the hill this Thursday, the 10th if any one would like to re-up on some local food. We are temporarily out of Wild Alaskan Salmon. I exhausted that source and am looking for another sustainable fisher to work with. I sold out of cheese as well over the holiday and haven't had opportunity to replenish that stock yet. I do have plenty of juice, jam, beef, buffalo, elk, lamb, granola, Leroux Creek Spa Skin care and cookbooks for offer.
Continue Reading Add comment January 6th, 2008
Personally, I look forward to cooking in the colder months of a Colorado winter. I anticipate all the warming foods and the heartier fare that the body requires to grow a layer of fat and stay warm, with more than one errant taste bud tuned in to the good smells to come. I like the long slow braising and stewing methods of cooking. I like the warm spices melding together in a certain kind of Cooking Alchemy that can only happen on a cold winter day, with the wind howling outside, the sky dark and close to the ground and the snow piling up sideways at my front door.
There is also something very pleasurable about being a chef and stocking up a good winter larder. I walk through my kitchen and my eye is caught by all the different colors of dried Beans and grains in my glass quart jar collection on my counter tops. I see White Northern beans, Kidney beans, little red Aduki beans, Green Split peas, Red Split lentils, Black-eyed peas, brown buckwheat, White Basmati rice and golden quinoa staring back at me and oh, how the recipes start dancing around in my head.
Continue Reading Add comment December 17th, 2007
Hello Everyone! Anyone Hungry?
I need you all to go online or reply back to this email if you want one (or two!) of the October Boxes that I will be driving over next Thursday/Friday, even if you are on the Automatic Box Route. This is a box I don't count as automatic because so many people are out of town this time of year. I am trying to have all my orders in by Monday night, so I can round everything up for you all. Please stock up on Juices, Jams, Eggs, Beef, Lamb, Buffalo, Cheese, Leroux Creek Skin care, Etc at this time, because most likely I won't come over again until Thanksgiving week. Think Stews and Chilis!
Continue Reading Add comment October 17th, 2007
Please come celebrate our Farms and our Farmers during the Mountain Harvest Festival. It is a very fun weekend if you can break away. September 28th, 29th and 30th. Saturday the 29th during the Festival, I am sponsoring a Hoedown! oh my goodness. I have never even been to one let alone thrown one! You will have to come just to see the pained look of confusion on my face.......Go to my web-site and click on Hoedown for more events.
Continue Reading Add comment September 23rd, 2007
Order up, this is the second to last week, and well there is something to say for going out with a bang!!. I will only do one
delivery on the last week instead of my normal Tue and Fri Routes. I am going to split the difference and Deliver the last box, Upvalley and Downvalley combined on Wednesday, Sept 26th.
Continue Reading Add comment September 16th, 2007
We should have Pears, Italian Plums, Raspberries, Eggplant, Broccoli, Tomatoes, Kale, Peppers and Chillies. Sometimes I am not always right on my guess as you may have ascertained but I do get close.....
I requested from Homestead Ranch to save one of their Steers for me to be entirely grass fed and grass finished. Homestead typically grass pastures their beef until the final month, when they start augmenting with grain. As this usually follows the cycle of nature,
meaning in the Autumn the grass turns to seed anyway, it is still a healthy way to eat Beef.
Continue Reading Add comment September 10th, 2007
I invited my neighbor Miss Jodie over this morning for a Squash Blossom Breakfast. I've had a hankering for weeks now since Mona Esposito fed me one on my delivery route in Aspen, and boy was I hungry for them. I stuffed them with a mix of Haystack Smoked Chevre and James Ranch Belford, put in a sliver of roasted Jalapeno, rolled them in egg whites and then I dipped them in flour. Next a few minutes of saute on each side in a hot pan with a little ghee and grapeseed oil. I had made a marinara the night before out of garlic, lemon zest, crushed red pepper, olive oil, sage and fresh Heirlooms. That served grandly as a dipping sauce. A squeeze of lemon, a dusting of sea salt and Voilla! Crunch, Crunch. Two very happy, fat ladies, Miss Jodie and I!
Continue Reading Add comment September 2nd, 2007
