What happened to winter?

It seems like a switch has been flipped the past week, with temperatures rising consistently to reach record highs. Some people are rejoicing. I just hope it's not a sign of things to come for this summer. Already many of our winter crops in the hoop house are bolting, so we're getting creative about how to sell bolted salad mix greens. Bolted or not, at least they're still delicious!

Another good week of yummy food with (of course) leftover soup, home-made bread, and some delicious stir-fried winter squash frozen from the fall with ground beef, sundried tomatoes, and spinach.

I had a lot of spinach from the farm to use up.

St Patty's day at the DeBruhl's was a success, with only a couple of pre-determined exceptions to the rules. I had some beer from Bell's Brewery, a Lager of the Lakes. After not having any beer since sometime in January, it tasted excellent. While Bell's is a Michigan company, I do not believe all the ingredients for their beer is sourced from Michigan. The other exception was in a cherry and peach cobbler that Joannee made. While just about everything in the cobbler was from 100 miles away, the cherries were not. They were Traverse City cherries. Everything else I had that night, the corned beef and the boiled veggies, were both delicious and from local farmers. I had two servings and certainly did not regret it.  Mmm!  

-Shannon