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Cooking for the Family Interest Form – AWL

thefarmchef

Teaching a passion for gardening & cooking food that nourishes the body. Creator of the 5-week program called Cooking for the Family in Cincy. Zone 6

@thegormanheritagefarm. We went there yesterday fo

@thegormanheritagefarm. We went there yesterday for a lot of reasons, and one of the reasons was to have my son meet the pigs. We are sharing a pig from Gorman with some friends, and I wanted to make sure he understood how precious life is. Gorman raises their animals so well. We are happy to support them and what a perfect day for a farm visit.

#gormanheritagefarm #cincy #knowyourfarmer #evendale #sustainablyraised #pigs #pastureraised

Peppers. These were the varieties we grew this yea

Peppers. These were the varieties we grew this year. All sweet peppers and all tasted so different. It’s been a great pepper year. Now time to preserve them. We’ll dehydrate, smoke, pickle, freeze, cook and eat fresh.

We have also been saving seeds to grow next year. We’ve liked all of them this year so will grow them all again next year but we won’t grow as many Habanada. One plant is so prolific and it’s not my favorite, but still worth growing some. What’s your favorite way to preserve sweet peppers or favorite sweet pepper variety?

#peppers #myharvest #txorixero #habanada #guajllo #zone6 #endofseason #backyardgarden

Yellow squash pancakes. Basically add a cup of shr

Yellow squash pancakes. Basically add a cup of shredded yellow squash or zucchini to any pancake recipe. It adds veggies and you can hardly tell the difference.

It’s so fun seeing my kids wanting to be as helpful as possible in the kitchen. It might take 2 or 3 times the amount of time to get any food prepared but to see how proud of themselves they are when they complete tasks is just heart warming. The tasks can start out super simple like covering pancakes so they don’t get cold and gradually get harder like flipping pancakes. (The stove is off by this point. It’s REALLY important to teach oven safety before letting your kids anywhere near the stove!)

My son has really taken on the role of helping teach and encourage my daughter too. I love it!

#sundayfunday #cookingwithkids #learningtower #summersquash #pancakes

Yesterday’s harvest. As the season is coming to

Yesterday’s harvest. As the season is coming to a close, we are enjoying the last day of summer harvest.

#myharvest #backyardgardener #zone6 #gardeningwithkids #latesummergarden #organicgardening

Bamboo. Our friends @jodieruegs and @ryanjohnsonp

Bamboo. Our friends @jodieruegs and @ryanjohnsonp let us raid their bamboo grove and we’ve been busy building living teepees, squash and tomato trellises. It definitely an experiment but so far it’s looking pretty good, and the veggies are finding their way up it.

We even added a kid’s mud kitchen, so the living teepee could be a legit restaurant for the kids and neighbors.

#livingteepee #bambootrellis #bamboo #workinprogress #mudkitchen #backyardgarden #letthekidsplay

Chicken of the woods. Such a beautiful mushroom. W

Chicken of the woods. Such a beautiful mushroom. We found this one on our hike today. It was perfectly moist, not old and dried out, and surprisingly very clean. We breaded and pan fried it to make “faux chicken” piccata.

We gave it 👍👍. My daughter and I were pretty excited about our find, hence the cheesy smiles.

#foraging #chickenofthewoods #vegatarian #foragingwithkids #mushrooms

Cold summer pizza. When it’s hot outside try out

Cold summer pizza. When it’s hot outside try out this cold summer pizza. The crust can be made with pilsbury crescent roll sheets or I google searched for a copycat recipe. Then I mixed together a 1/2 cup of mayo to a 8oz box of cream cheese and about 1/2 tsp chopped fresh dill. Spread it over my baked crust that was left to chill and topped it with tomatoes, salami, yellow zucchini, green zucchini and peppers. Then voila! Easy chilled pizza.

My son got inspired as I was making the pizza to make his own pizza crust. He just kept mixing flour and water until he got it to the consistency he wanted. Then we baked it off and put tomato jam, cheese and tomatoes in top. It was a good lesson on baking by feel and not adding too much of something at a time.

#summerrecipes #summerpizza #gardenfresh #eatwhatyougrow #backyardgarden #experimentwithfood #cookingwithkids #bakebyfeel

Tomato pie. Every year we make @edibleohiovalley t

Tomato pie. Every year we make @edibleohiovalley tomato pie recipe. Every year it tastes delicious. It’s the kind of tomato pie that the crust doesn’t get soggy which is not easy task. The recipe says it makes 2 pies, but we put the quantity of fillings from both pies into one crust then use the second crust for something else. This year we added fresh pesto made earlier in the week instead of fresh herbs and it worked out well.

What’s your summer go to recipe?

Google search: Edible Ohio Valley Hearty Tomato Pie to get the recipe.

#tomatopie #yellowfireromatomato #backyardgarden #growwhatyoueat #tasteofsummer #kidswhogarden #myharvest

Peach, fig, and milk jam galette. We got a bunch o

Peach, fig, and milk jam galette. We got a bunch of culled peaches from @hollmeyer_orchards a week ago. That makes 70 lbs of peaches so far this summer that we’ve baked, ate fresh, froze, given away, or made into fruit leather. I also had a bunch of figs from our trees and a leftover crust from making our yearly summer tradition of tomato pie from a recipe from @edibleohiovalley. Put all that together and what do you have? A delicious galette. We put the figs and peaches on top of a bed of milk jam and topped with crystallized ginger sugar all encrusted with that delicious crust. It was divine.

What is milk jam? Last year @deeperrootsdrc had some gallons of milk from Swallowhill Jersey Dairy that were about to expire and instead of throwing them out we canned milk jam. It’s basically sugar and milk simmer for a long time and tastes like dulce de leche. Yum! Great way to use up expiring milk.

#zerofoodwaste #swallowhilljerseydairy #figs #galette #peaches #eatwhatyougrow #knowyourfarmer #buylocal #summerharvest

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