Recipes from the Garden
We spend all spring tending the soil nursing our seedlings into the ground with the hope of a bounty of vegetables for our plates and freezers, and canning days during mid summer into fall.
We are curating some recipes here that feature the plants we are most often tending at the Anderson Urban Farm.
Some of the recipes are new, and some harken back to the times when the Clough Valley was first settled.
If you have some of your own favorite recipes please send them to recipes@andersonurbanfarm.com and we will add them to this page. If you have some pictures of the final dish you created please send those as well.
Thanks!
The Garden Chefs
Tomato Recipes
Everyone loves tomatoes straight from the garden and it is probably the most ubiquitous fruit (yep its a fruit) that will come from your garden. From a simple BLT to Salsas and sauces the Tomato has a lot to offer.
Click the button below to see some of our collection.
Also the Modern Tomato has some historic roots here in the Great State of Ohio!
For more on that story click below
http://www.heartlandscience.org/agrifood/tomato
Cucumber Recipes
Did you Know that Cucumbers are more than a crunchy addition to a summer salad? They are very healthy full of PhytoNutrients and can be used in many dishes.
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family. Other important members of this family include watermelon, muskmelon, pumpkin and squash. Native to India, cucumber is another one of our most ancient vegetables.
https://ipm.missouri.edu/meg/2014/3/Cucumber-A-Brief-History/
Zucchini Recipes
By mid July and into early August many gardeners have more Zucchini than they can handle. But you do not have to make tons of Zucchini bread and muffins because this member of the squash family can be a great actor in soups, sauteés and pickled and made into casseroles.
like all squash, zucchini has its ancestry in the Americas, specifically Mesoamerica. However, the varieties of green, cylindrical squash harvested immature and typically called “zucchini” were cultivated in northern Italy, as much as three centuries after the introduction of cucurbits from the Americas.
http://www.vegetablefacts.net/vegetable-history/zucchini-history/
Historic Recipes.
During the late 1930s and into the 1940s as war raged on in Europe Africa and Asia U.S. families tried to do their part by growing Victory Gardens.
Victory Gardens were meant to allow the large production farms of the country to focus and provide for the military in the field.
Many local home groups and churches put together Victory Garden Cookbooks to help raise money and to share recipes with their community.
Thank you to Molly Pruse of the Anderson Urban Farm for loaning us her copy of a Victory Cookbook. Click below to view this wonderful bit of history and maybe make some of the dishes.