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Farm to table

Last week we journeyed out to a local farm together and this week I am pleased to invite you to my table. With the amount of rain that has been falling here on the coast, hearty comfort foods have seemed like the best use of the produce that I had picked up on the farm.

Three vegetables that really shout out fall and comfort to me are: artichokes of course, brussels sprouts and pumpkins. Now I want to talk about these three guys for a few different reasons, firstly because artichokes are my favourite and I don’t think enough people eat them, secondly brussels sprouts are delicious and should show up of your table more often than just at Thanksgiving and finally because a stuffed and baked pumpkin is an amazing show stopper of a dish.

Here are a few of my current favourite ways to prepare these fall lovelies:
Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Raisins 


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Braised Artichoke with Griddled Polenta Cakes with Caramelized Onions, Goat  Cheese, and Honey

Pumpkin stuffed with everything good, take a look at Ginger’s version that she shared with us last fall and of course Dorie Greenspan’s recipe which inspirered all this pumpkin craziness in the first place.

I hope that these lovely (if I do say so myself) dishes from my table will inspire you to partake in some of the bounties of fall.

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Sprouting

I took a slightly new twist on gardening this winter. While wintertime does not seem like the season for much of anything fresh, I brought my garden indoors. Yes indeed, I started growing sprouts. I chalk it up to spending just a little too long in the grocery store one afternoon. I happened upon the sprouting supplies and things have been a little crazy since then.

I’m perfectly happy to take the seasonal approach to my vegetables. And while my fall CSA boxes transitioned to heartier greens and roots, I happily cooked along with all of them. But I do like a salad, even in the winter – some shade of green, leafy and full of crunch. As you may have seen earlier, I’ve dabbled with other greens for my riff on a Turkish Salad. But sometimes, you want something other than a standard head of lettuce. And here is where my little sprouting box in the window comes in.

I started out small with alfalfa sprouts. That is what I was most familiar with as a kid. But after seeing a few of the other choices – clover, radish, fenugreek – I went a little crazy. I even went online and found a few more adventurous blends. But of everything I have tried, I think my favorite has to be a combination of radish and clover sprouts. The radish has a nice zing to it and the leaves get nice and big for sprouts.

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B has even taken a little interest in what I’ve got growing. He likes to stand at the sink with me while I am rinsing out the sprouts in the evening. Some days we’ll pick them out of the trays, one at a time, and snack on them. Yes, that delights me!

The best part about this kind of gardening is that you don’t need dirt or even a well-lit window. Just a little spot on the counter in the kitchen will work just fine. I bought trays, but some people just do their sprouting in jars or other containers. With little attention and a few days, a little green goodness can be your in the midst of the chilly winter.

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