Friday's Featured Food: Katie's Favorite

This week Katie got to pick our featured food, and she chose the pink and purple potatoes. The purple potatoes are Purple Majesty, and the pink potatoes are Mountain Rose. Both make quite the impression at the dinner table. When the nutrition experts say to feed a rainbow, I don't think they meant a rainbow of potatoes. But, it does encourage our girls to eat their veggies. Check out these beauties:

To make the cool shapes, Jay ran the Purple Majesty, Pink Mountain, Yukon Gold, and Red Norland potatoes through the apple corer. He then cooked them on the grill in a foil packet with a little bit of butter, for about 10 to 15 minutes. And, here's the result:

Updated Recipe:

Michael Anthony’s Fork-Crushed Purple Majesty Potatoes
1 lb. Purple Majesty Potatoes , washed
4 small shallots or onions, minced
2 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lemon juice
6 tablespoons good extra-virgin olive oil
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped

In a large pot, cook potatoes with skins on in heavily salted boiling water until tender, approximately 15 minutes. Remove potatoes from pot, and peel them while still warm. (1) Place potatoes in a large bowl and, using a fork, gently smash them, maintaining a fairly chunky consistency. (2) Fold in minced shallots, lemon juice, olive oil, fleur de sel, and white pepper. (3) Finish with parsley. Serves 4.

Source: http://nymag.com/restaurants/recipes/inseason/29408/

Friday's Featured Food: Katie's Favorite

Market Prep

The thing about a family farm is that everyone has a job. Idle hands are rare, when there is always some other task that needs completed. For our oldest daughters, that translates to bagging lettuce this week. As you can see, they actually enjoyed it ... even if we did get to sneak in some math lessons, while they were sorting:

Market Prep

The Broccoli Song

Our two oldest daughters thought the veggies needed a catchy marketing jingle, like all the restaurants and stores have. So, they made their own:

The Broccoli Song

Guest Post: K's perspective

Today's blog post is written by our oldest daughter.  

 I like that we have too much garden. I Bet It could take over our yard.

My favorite plants are tomatoes, potatoes, spinach,  broccoli , and cucumbers, and also cauliflower.

I like watering because i can get very very very very very very  WET.

That's all about my garden THE END. 

Guest Post: K's perspective