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Head to Boalsburg Farmers Market today for holiday recipe ingredients

For your holiday dinners, it’s always good to try to serve local food. While it’s cold and gloomy and eating local produce is a lot harder to do than when it’s sunny and summery, but the Boalsburg Farmers Market is open today from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and has some local produce options.

Melanie Rosenberger of the Boalsburg Farmers Market has shared with us two delicious side recipes to complement whatever holiday main dish you decide to make.

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Posted by Jamie Oberdick on 12/23, 2014 at 09:04 AM

Able to take a freeze, hardy kale supplies fresh garden greens well into fall/early winter

Kale is a superstar in the fall garden. The plant is tough as nails, able to take some very cold temperatures. In fact, myself and many other gardeners have harvested kale from under the snow.

Along with its toughness, kale has many other good properties. It’s very easy to grow, can grow in part shade, and is quite tasty. It is best after a couple of good frost/freezes, which give the leaves a sweet flavor and cuts down on the bitterness.

There are many varieties of kale, and here are a few of my favorites:

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Posted by Jamie Oberdick on 10/28, 2013 at 07:14 AM

Tags: recipe | garden | kale |

Hearty Chorizo, Kale and Potato Soup

A simmering pot of Portuguese Soup.

Itâ€™s February. Thereâ€™s nothing I can really say thatâ€™s redeeming about local eating in February in Pennsylvania except that weâ€™re one month closer the return of good local veggies than we were in January.

Okay, thereâ€™s one other thing I can say. Itâ€™s a good time for soup, and I love soup. Far and away my favorite soup of all time is a Portuguese chorizo, kale and potato soup. I donâ€™t know where the recipe is from, unless â€œmy motherâ€ is a suitable answer. This soup is flavorful and hearty and a good way to use any potatoes you have put up from last year that are getting all wrinkly and soft.

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Posted by Emily Reddy on 02/08, 2013 at 11:56 AM

Pulling Summer from the Freezer when itâ€™s Freezing Outside

During my garden harvest season, which stretches from summer through much of fall, I preserve a lot of what we get from our backyard in two ways—canning and freezing.

I like to do both because of cooking flexibility. You can do a lot of great things with canning: sauces, relishes, pickles, etc. But freezing for me tends to be about just the vegetable/fruit.

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Posted by Jamie Oberdick on 02/07, 2012 at 10:08 PM

Tags: gardening | recipes | kale | winter |