Appetizers & Snacks — the cook & the garden

Radish Leaf Remoulade

Step by Step Sourdough Bread

Breakfast, Food Waste Solutions, No Waste, Appetizers & Snacks, LunchCathy ClearyMay 12, 2020no waste, bread, sourdough, natural leavening, whole wheat

Food Waste Solutions Recipes

Appetizers & Snacks, No Waste, Vegetables, Winter, Summer, Gluten-FreeCathy ClearyNovember 13, 2019Food waste, potato, eggs, fritter, salsa, tomato, herbs, remoulade, Spanish omelette

Cucumber Salsa

Appetizers & Snacks, Summer, The GardenCathy ClearyAugust 13, 2019cucumbers, herbs, fresh herbs, salsa, appetizers, spicy, peppers

Chilled Green Ginger Soup

Appetizers & Snacks, Dinner, Soups & StewsCathy ClearyAugust 13, 2019soup, ginger, lambs quarter, greens, summer, appetizers, lunch, chilled soup

Value Added Southern Harvest Recipes

VEGETABLES, Winter, The Garden, Appetizers & SnacksCathy ClearyFebruary 19, 2019Classes, pickled collards, Apple Chips, tomato pesto, garlic herb cream cheese, value added, Southern Harvest Cookbook, collard greens

CFSA Sustainable Agriculture Conference!

Appetizers & Snacks, Adventures, Winter, AutumnCathy ClearyNovember 14, 2018pimento cheese, CFSA, Bountiful Cities, Athens Land Trust, Bounty & Soul, Apple Chips, Conference, Southern Harvest Cookbook, workshop, sustainable agriculture, home grown, Chinese 5 spice powder

Winter Squash So Many Ways

Appetizers & Snacks, No Waste, Vegetables, FruitsCathy ClearyNovember 1, 2018Winter squash, pumpkins, butternut, acorn squash, dips, spreads, winter recipes, recipes, candy roaster squash, squash, party food

So Many Stories of Food!

Summertime Savory Squash Pie

Appetizers & Snacks, Dinner, Gluten-Free, Summer, The Garden, VegetablesCathy ClearySeptember 4, 2018summer squash, zucchini, savory pie, eggs, toaster oven

Eggplant Expertise

Appetizers & Snacks, Summer, VegetablesCathy ClearyJuly 26, 2018Eggplant, baba ganoush, smoked, Steve Goff, Hanan Shabazz, Sarah Decker, Morgan Decker

Rhubarb for Generations!!

My latest Mountain Xpress Story with lots of rhubarb recipes and rhubarb history.

Appetizers & Snacks, DinnerCathy ClearyApril 27, 2018rhubarb, app, appetizers, dinners, gardening, goat cheese, mostarda

Greens in the Bank

What if you really could ensure a prosperous future by eating plenty of leafy green vegetables? I am beginning to think this concept may have come from common-sense reasoning as opposed to superstition.

Off the Grid - Pedal to Plate

It takes just the right kind of person to enjoy spending an entire Sunday riding up and down steep mountain inclines with bicycle pedal power in order to see small farms in action. I guess I fall into that “right person” category because I had a ridiculously good time at Pedal to Plate in Madison County.

Goats and Rhubarb

Rhubarb Ginger Mostarda with Goat Cheese inspired by our new arrivals out on the farm! Welcome Buckwheat and Snowflake!

Appetizers & Snacks, AdventuresCathy ClearyJune 14, 2017goat cheese, snacks, appetizers, rhubarb, ginger, mostarda, relish, pickle, cheese

FEAST in the Sunny Point Garden! Plus pig and pickles

I'm so excited to help organize this event with such generous businesses! On August 7th, 2017 Riverbend Malt is donating a pig (fattened on their spent grain) and Sunny Point Cafe is preparing a FEAST to benefit FEAST!

More Mussels

I always want more muscles and mussels. I go about getting them in different ways but always want more of both. I like to ride my bike, run, and do hard core garden workouts for the first kind of muscle. The second kind of mussel is much much easier to enjoy. They look like elongated clams or small smooth oysters, but the mussel is not something you see on menus in this country all that often.

Fried Zucchini Pickles

County Fairs are a big deal in our neck of the woods. Folks bring out their biggest pumpkins and prettiest pigs to show off, pies are tasted and judged, and handmade patchwork quilts are on display. Fair food is almost always fried. These pickles remind me of fair food, and the best part is they are delicious even if you don’t want to fry them.

Disappearing Deviled Eggs Dilemma

I have done an informal survey asking folks what disappears first off the buffet table. It is always the deviled eggs. Spanakopita triangles come in close second. It seems the most labor intensive, time consuming dishes disappear the fastest.

Scones

Who doesn’t love a scone? They really are not hard to make, the trick is to not overwork the dough. It takes some practice to get all the ingredients incorporated without over mixing. You will know if you have done it right because your pastries will be light as a feather, tender and flaky.

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