There are many great recipes and cookbooks for preparing foods
fresh from the garden or farmer’s market. We are just discovering what is out there.
Here are some of our favorite recipes plus some resources for
bringing the farm to the table.
As we learn, look for more recipes and tips from our kitchen on our Taproot Farm Journal blog.
Cookbook Resources
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – an adventure in eating locally. Barbara Kingsolver shares her recipes and information about “growing your own” at www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/.
Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois. Revolutionized home baking.
Fresh From the Farmers’ Market: year-Round Recipes for the Pick of the Crop by Janet Fletcher
Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers’ Markets by Deborah Madison
The Moosewood Restaurant Kitchen Garden and all their wonderful cookbooks
Recipes from a Kitchen Garden by Renee Shepherd
Simply In Season by Cathleen Hodkman-Wert
The Practical Produce Cookbook by the Ray and Elsie Hoover family. Unbelievable resource organized by crop. Tips for canning and preserving too.
Some Favorite Recipes
Most often we just bring in a harvest from the garden and improvise. Soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, local eggs, feta cheese and the Wok are staples for our stir fry concoctions.
Sometimes we serve over rice and beside potatoes
or throw in some local chicken, beef or lamb for meat lovers.
But when we do turn to a recipe, in addition to many in the cookbooks above, these are a few favorites.
Some are directly from Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal,Vegetable, Miracle book.
Tomato Sauce - Tim’s favorite for canning!
Slow Cook Apples - Love the smell of them cooking all day!
Butternut, Squash and Apple Soup
Cream of Pumpkin Soup – Yummy comfort food.
Gazpacho Soup – Great on a summer day.
Minestrone Soup - Family favorite. Freezes well.
Plum Tomato Soup - Love this fresh taste!
No Knead Bread - Add whatever herbs are in the garden or chopped, floured dried fruit. I increase this to 1 1/2 times the recipe- at that size the crust is crisp and the center is soft and springy. Perfect!
Zucchini Bread - Recipe shared generously by the market stand down the road. 
Best I’ve had. Great during early summer when zucchini is coming out of your ears- bake a bunch and freeze.
Fruit Muffins- Wonderful, moist muffin- vary the ingredients according to fruits of the season.