October 2020

  Dashing Star Farm 10 Reasons to do your own Herb Garden Tomatoes Eggplant Summer Squash Peppers Cherry Glaze Quail with Grilled Radicchio & Grains of Paradise Chanterelles on Toast with Corn Pudding & Goat Cheese Grilled Squid with Fennel, Blistered Shishito Escabeche, Chorizo Vinaigrette & Marjoram Chanterelles   Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading…

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Farm2ChefsTable is a blog about bringing people back to the dinner table and savoring the bounty that the beautiful Hudson Valley and surrounding area has to offer. Cook along with me during the week as I prepare simple, healthy and delicious meals from my “Chefs Table” to your Sunday Supper table. My recipes are designed …

Knee High to Grandma at Her Stovetop… How it all began… At the age of five, in Pennsylvania, I cooked alongside my grandma on a little step stool while my mother worked at the restaurant. I remember I couldn’t even reach the stove to see what was boiling away, but the flickering flame of the …

I like to think of brussels sprouts as tiny heads of cabbage. In fact, brussels sprouts belong to the same family as cabbage, the brassicaceae family.  They are tiny buds that grow from an upward sprouting stem resembling a skinny tree trunk. Since brussels sprouts thrive in cold climates, the best time to buy them …

Farm2ChefsTable is a blog about bringing people back to the dinner table and savoring the bounty the beautiful Hudson Valley and surrounding area has to offer. Cook along with me during the week as I prepare simple, healthy and delicious meals from my “Chefs Table” to your Sunday Supper table. My recipes are designed to …

Beets are one of the beckoning ingredients that are essential from winter into spring. They offer plenty of sweet, savory and earthy notes that help them pair well with almost anything. In this recipe, I roast beets in foil pouches placed in a preheated cast iron pan. This method allows the beets to caramelize in …

You say tomato, I say tomato Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable? Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad. I disagree with that old adage, slightly. Tomatoes are delicious with watermelon, one of my favorite unexpected food pairings. Tomatoes are so versatile that they can …

Pears are one of my favorite fruits because of their versatility in adapting to both sweet and savory dishes. Here, I pair them with a glaze of beautiful, rich Hidden Springs Maple that is perked up with black pepper and balanced with parsnips roasted in brown butter. Day 1: Making the Maple & Black Pepper …

Rhubarb…is it a fruit…is it a vegetable? That is a tricky question to answer. Here’s the thing with rhubarb. Botanically speaking, it is a vegetable and member of the buckwheat family, but because it is most often cooked down with sugar for pies and jam, it is thought of as a fruit and is even …