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Spring Brook Farm is where we get our meat, treats and the occasional trinket. Today's basket contained:
- four 1 lb pkgs of ground beef
- two london broil steaks
- a couple pounds of sweet eye-talian sausage
- a pound of bacon
- a large package of chicken thighs (bone in, skin on)
- one kohlrabi, both the bulb and leaves. These were insanely inexpensive, and I regret not taking all three plants. Love this stuff.
- a package of dried vegetable chips.
Stillman Dairy Farm was so cool inside, we were looking for excuses to hang around, chatting and petting Roscoe the beagle. We weren't up for any scones (they have awesome baked goods) and hot coffee, so ended up pushing off after returning the milk bottles from our last visit, and picking up what was on the grocery list:
- five quarts of heavy cream ("Making your own ice cream?" we were asked)
- two dozen eggs
- a pound of unsalted butter
- a pint of raw honey from a farm in Townsend - a couple towns away; still pretty local.
- a summer sausage from a Vermont company that makes delicious, delicious cured meats. They make awesome jerky, too, but that seems to either be selling out quickly or out of stock. (Hopefully we'll find it again soon.)
Stillman's Farm stand is only open on Thursdays and Sundays, so we have to kind of schedule things (not always easy). Though they opened up for business in June, this is only our first time visiting this season. Was so nice to see everyone again, especially Spencer the Border Collie, who was alternating between patrolling the fields, taking a dip in the pond, and accepting belly rubs.
What did we get?
- lots of summer squash (yes, I'm growing it here. Still, they have some beautiful examples in all different colors)
- Sweet peppers in an array of colors
- a bunch of scallions
- a head of curly-leafed lettuce
- a bunch of Tuscan kale (the flat leafed kind that you can happily eat raw)
- a couple small cukes (for dinner tonight)
- a bunch of French Breakfast radishes, because mine never produced this year, and I really had a taste for them.
Housemate got a whiff of the basil; That's our current kitchen bouquet. I'm thinking of making both a caprese salad (we aren't lacking for tomatoes) and a pesto (for the surprisingly noodle-like zucchini ribbons).
- two london broil steaks
- a couple pounds of sweet eye-talian sausage
- a pound of bacon
- a large package of chicken thighs (bone in, skin on)
- one kohlrabi, both the bulb and leaves. These were insanely inexpensive, and I regret not taking all three plants. Love this stuff.
- a package of dried vegetable chips.
Stillman Dairy Farm was so cool inside, we were looking for excuses to hang around, chatting and petting Roscoe the beagle. We weren't up for any scones (they have awesome baked goods) and hot coffee, so ended up pushing off after returning the milk bottles from our last visit, and picking up what was on the grocery list:
- five quarts of heavy cream ("Making your own ice cream?" we were asked)
- two dozen eggs
- a pound of unsalted butter
- a pint of raw honey from a farm in Townsend - a couple towns away; still pretty local.
- a summer sausage from a Vermont company that makes delicious, delicious cured meats. They make awesome jerky, too, but that seems to either be selling out quickly or out of stock. (Hopefully we'll find it again soon.)
Stillman's Farm stand is only open on Thursdays and Sundays, so we have to kind of schedule things (not always easy). Though they opened up for business in June, this is only our first time visiting this season. Was so nice to see everyone again, especially Spencer the Border Collie, who was alternating between patrolling the fields, taking a dip in the pond, and accepting belly rubs.
What did we get?
- lots of summer squash (yes, I'm growing it here. Still, they have some beautiful examples in all different colors)
- Sweet peppers in an array of colors
- a bunch of scallions
- a head of curly-leafed lettuce
- a bunch of Tuscan kale (the flat leafed kind that you can happily eat raw)
- a couple small cukes (for dinner tonight)
- a bunch of French Breakfast radishes, because mine never produced this year, and I really had a taste for them.
Housemate got a whiff of the basil; That's our current kitchen bouquet. I'm thinking of making both a caprese salad (we aren't lacking for tomatoes) and a pesto (for the surprisingly noodle-like zucchini ribbons).
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