April 14th Offerings
Here we go again! While we were away, we made farm boxes for the food pantry at the Silverlake Community Church. We traveled or made plans to do so. We rested. And now we’re back with an Italian menu inspired by what’s growing in Southern California.
Mel is making a spring green lasagna with layers of English pea and spinach puree, ricotta and a green garlic bechamel. She’s also making a braised meat ragu with shredded beef shanks and pork spare ribs. Toss the ragu with some radiatore pasta for dinner this week or freeze it for later.
We’re offering thick slices of pancetta which I love to cook with English and sugar snap peas, green garlic, spinach and asparagus (all of which will hopefully be in the farm box) as a side dish for roast chicken, base for seared branzino, or to turn a classic pasta carbonara into my kind of primavera… a true expression of spring (see recipe on website.)
We’ve also got some of our favorite California made Italian products: Peads and Barnetts’ Italian sausage, Bianco DiNapoli canned tomatoes and burrata and ricotta from Gioia Cheese Company. Please note: These are large cans of California grown and processed organic plum tomatoes, but it’s a good deal for a great product. Use some this week and portion and freeze the rest. And if you haven’t made oven roasted tomatoes yet (recipe on website), I beg you to give it a try.
For dessert, Jared is making strawberries and cream bombolini: light yeasty doughnuts filled with vanilla bean pastry cream and fresh strawberry jam. Eat these in the car ride home or share them with your family on Wednesday night. Later in the week, you can slice and bake some salted chocolate sable cookies made with Valrhona cocoa powder and plugra butter and studded with Valrhona chocolate chunks.
And since it’s spring, we’re also selling Peads and Barnetts’ protea and wax flower bouquets. They happen to raise pigs and drought-tolerant plants, and their flower arrangements are stunning and last awhile.
Click each item below to add to your cart. All orders due by Sunday, 4/10 at noon.
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PEADS AND BARNETTS ITALIAN SAUSAGE
13.00
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STRAWBERRIES & CREAM BOMBOLONI
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