Roasted Tomatoes and Shrimp w/ a Garlic Wine Sauce over Pasta

With the 2009 CSA season about to start, my mind has been racing thinking of what I can do with this season’s share.  HighCross Farm grows the most amazing cherry tomatoes ever.  I won’t see those until later in the summer so I had to suffice with store bought.
I like using the off-season time to experiment [...]

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Bruschetta with Tomato and Basil

When I saw all those tomatoes and basil in my CSA box tonight, I thought for a minute what I wanted to do with them. I remembered the bruschetta I had at the Fox River Brewery in Appleton and thought it shouldn’t be hard to come up with my own take on their bruschetta recipe.  [...]

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Lemon Herb Butter

I had some lemons, fresh Rosemary and super fresh Basil (courtesy of HighCross Farm) in my fridge and decided to make a lemon herb butter.
Please don’t mind my cutting board. It was stained green after chopping my herbs.

I chopped up a good handful of Basil and about two sprigs of Rosemary (Rosemary is a strong [...]

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Pesto!

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The picture doesn’t do it any justice.  This pesto looks, smells, tastes fantastic.  I have some pasta cooking on the stove and I cannot wait to slather it in pesto.  The cheese, well it could not be any fresher.  The garlic, look at it.  Gorgeous purple streaks. HighCross Farm is [...]

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What’s for lunch?

I love it when I can take these….

Turn them into this…

Which in turn is turned into this…

One more…

That is my take on Pizza Margareta.  I used the fresh basil I got from my HighCross Farm CSA box, fresh Mozzarella cheese, and my homemade sauce.  It was molto deliziosi.

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