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Slow Cooked Black Bean Soup

Posted in $60/Week, Eating, Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, Recipe, Vegetarian, budget, tagged $60/Week, budget, Cooking, Cooking Light, Cooking Yum!, CSA, Eating, eating on a budget, Farm Share, Food, Local Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, MA, Massachusetts, NESFP, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, Recipe, Vegetarian, World Peas on Friday, October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Do you know what I’m lovin’ right now? My slow cooker! It makes getting supper on the table after a long day of work a snap. With a little prep, dinner’s ready to go when you get home.

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Corn Chowder & Tomato Salad

Posted in $60/Week, CSA, Eating, Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, Recipe, Vegetarian, budget, tagged budget, Cooking, Cooking Yum!, CSA, Eating, eating on a budget, Farm Share, Food, Local Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, Recipe, Vegetarian, World Peas on Friday, September 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Tonight’s supper is brought to you by my CSA and the late summer corn and tomato harvest.

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Pasta Caprese

Posted in $60/Week, Adventures of the Cash Poor and Time Rich, CSA, Eating, Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, Recipe, Vegetarian, budget, tagged $60/Week, America's Test Kitchen, budget, Cooking, Cooking Yum!, CSA, Eating, eating on a budget, Farm Share, Food, Local Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, MA, Massachusetts, NESFP, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, Recipe, Vegetarian, World Peas on Sunday, August 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »

After all of that talk about late blight, we’ve been getting tons of beautiful tomatoes from the CSA. I think they taste better, knowing that they were at risk. This recipe is the perfect showcase for summer tomatoes.

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Fennel & Carrot Slaw

Posted in $60/Week, Adventures of the Cash Poor and Time Rich, CSA, Eating, Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian, budget, tagged $60/Week, budget, Cooking, Cooking Yum!, CSA, Eating, eating on a budget, Food, Local Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, MA, Martha Stewart, Massachusetts, NESFP, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian, World Peas on Monday, August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Seeing as summer is almost over, I should tell you about the best slaw ever. What makes it the best slaw ever? Fennel, one of my favorite flavors, and a lack of mayonnaise. Oh, it’s easy too.

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A mish-mash of a post – World Peas CSA – Week Nine, a recipe for Sweet & Sour Eggplant (sort of) and a confession…

Posted in $60/Week, Adventures of the Cash Poor and Time Rich, CSA, Eating, Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian, budget, tagged $60/Week, budget, Cooking, Cooking Yum!, CSA, Eating, eating on a budget, Farm Share, Food, Local Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, MA, NESFP, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetarian, World Peas on Friday, August 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Today, while I was staffing the Lowell Farmers’ Market, I was reminded that I haven’t updated in a long while – hi, Michele – this one’s for you!

I’ll start with this week’s CSA share – it’s week nine, smack dab in the middle of the season. We got:

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World Peas CSA – Week Eight / UTEC Fresh Roots Baked Goods CSA – Week Four

Posted in $60/Week, Adventures of the Cash Poor and Time Rich, CSA, Eating, Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, budget, tagged $60/Week, budget, Cooking, Cooking Yum!, CSA, Eating, eating on a budget, Farm Share, Food, Fresh Roots, Local Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, MA, Massachusetts, NESFP, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, UTEC, World Peas on Thursday, August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

First the bad news…
There isn’t a picture of this week’s Fresh Roots offering. We got four whoopie pies, two mint and two regular. Just picture in your mind four of the biggest, loveliest, most mouth-watering whoopie pies and multiply that by a deliciousness factor of at least ten, then insert that image here. That should [...]

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Corn Griddle Cakes

Posted in $60/Week, Adventures of the Cash Poor and Time Rich, CSA, Eating, Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, Recipe, Vegetarian, budget, tagged $60/Week, A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen, budget, Cooking, Cooking Yum!, Corn, CSA, Eating, eating on a budget, Farm Share, Food, Jack Bishop, Local Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, MA, NESFP, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, Recipe, Vegetarian, World Peas on Monday, August 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »

It’s corn season here in Massachusetts which means that as CSA members, we’ll often get six ears in a single week; I love corn on the cob, but that’s a bit much for me. I actually found this particular recipe as I was browsing cookbooks for recipes to pass along to my CSA for their [...]

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World Peas CSA – Week Seven / UTEC Fresh Roots Baked Goods CSA – Week Three

Posted in $60/Week, Adventures of the Cash Poor and Time Rich, CSA, Eating, Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, budget, tagged budget, CSA, Eating, Farm Share, Food, Local Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, MA, Massachusetts, NESFP, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, World Peas on Friday, July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My healthy fruit and veggie CSA box contained water spinach, Chinese broccoli, lettuce (given to Heather), green beans, summer squash, cucumbers, carrots, new potatoes, green onions, eggplant, corn, blueberries, raspberries, peaches, and flowers.
My not-as-healthy baked goods CSA box contained these beauties…

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Pan-Fried Polenta with Corn, Greens & Goat Cheese

Posted in $60/Week, Adventures of the Cash Poor and Time Rich, CSA, Eating, Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, Recipe, Vegetarian, budget, tagged $60/Week, budget, Cooking, Cooking Yum!, CSA, Didi Emmons, Eating, eating on a budget, Farm Share, Food, Local Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, MA, Massachusetts, NESFP, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, Recipe, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Planet, World Peas on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Another recipe from the spectacular Vegetarian Planet – you seriously should own this book! This recipe is perfect for all of the CSAers out there – it uses three different vegetables, including greens.

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Things that are awesome Friday – UTEC Fresh Roots & The Lowell Folk Festival!

Posted in $60/Week, Adventures of the Cash Poor and Time Rich, Eating, Food, Lowell, Lowell MA, Raves, budget, tagged Fresh Roots, Lowell, Lowell Folk Festival, Lowell MA, UTEC on Friday, July 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

# 1. Week two of our UTEC Fresh Roots CSA – Tweed Squares. Have I ever heard of a Tweed Square? No. Do I know what one is? No. Do I care? Not at all, they are delicious!

#2. The Lowell Folk Festival!!! The largest free folk festival [...]

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