Radishes, Spring and Pesto

Radish season is nearly upon us!  I think of radishes bunches as colorful symbols of spring like tulips.  Spring is my favorite, favorite, favorite season, it's when everything wakes up and come alive again.  The weather is getting warmer and birds are chirping again and best of all it means it's time to start farming again!  Ahhhh, I love it.  This spring, I think I am even more excited for the radish greens than the roots, which is saying a lot because colorful radish roots are irresistible in my book, I impulse buy them like they are the check-out lane candy bars of produce.

A big reason for the radish green excitement is stumbling upon a blog entry with a recipe for Radish Leaf Pesto on chocolateandzucchini.com.  I can't wait to try this recipe with some pasta.  This site has gotten me seriously excited to start cooking again.  Also stumbled upon an Indian recipe called Mullangi keerai poriyal that looks superb and there is always the option of tossing some of the younger greens into spring salads.

There are, of course, a ton of things to do with the roots too.  I love them with goat cheese and herbs...  I found several sites with directions for carving radish roots into nifty roses to use as a garnish or just a way to spice up a veggie platter.  It looks pretty easy too.  I think black roses made from Black Spanish Round Radishes would be super cool...


Photo from: http://www.biscuit.co.jp/ken/ken_portfolio/spanish.html

Out with the Old, In with the New

This morning we completely scrapped the logo we had been trying to make work for the last few weeks after our friend Melissa sent us something her husband, Bob (He did the Homestead Growers and Local Folks Foods sites too, I believe) had put together with us in mind (the complaigning worked!). 

We simplified it down to the bare bones and ended up with a simple, clean logo we all love.  Now on to getting this crappy blog whipped into shape.  ;)

  

Bathtub Chicks Under Lamplight

Sister Sarah came home with eight of these fuzzy guys and set up a temporary home for them in the bathroom.  ...yeah, I'd say we have officially become crazy country folk.



I love this picture...

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