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Pesto Recipe Ideas…

So many types of pesto, so little time…

  • sandwich spread (try with grilled cheese and tomatoes)

    Pesto Crustini on Nasturtiums

    Pesto Crustini on Nasturtiums

  • add to sauces and soups
  • blend with yogurt for salad dressing
  • stuff salmon or other fish
  • add dollop to rice for infusion
  • top crustinis or crackers for party snacks
  • spread on pizza base, or blend with tomato sauce
  • garnish a steak salad
  • create your own dip with sour cream or cream cheese

Recipe: Chicken Salad Sandwich

    2 cups of chicken
    3 tbs of cream cheese
    2 tbs of sour cream and 1 1/2 tbs of pesto
    blend by hand until creamy
    add favorite sandwich garnishes…such as micro celery greens and tomatoes

For a “Spring Chicken Salad Sandwich” consider a few of our favorite garnishes of micro mustard, violets, rose petals, wild crafted garlic mustard, shiso and other greens.

Pesto, essentially “paste”, is also made from our raspberry crops and is used as a different sort of pesto.  Makes great thumbprint cookies, spreads, cake layers, hot tea, etc.

Joshua Wilton explores the raspberry...yum!

(Be sure to check out what Joshua Wilton does with raspberries…this is one of my favorites.)

Fresh and Hot for 1st Week of February

There have been cold nights!

There has been snow!

Never fear – we are still growing! Still providing the best chefs with the best product year round. Here is a short clip -1 minute and 44 secs that will give you a quick tour inside our many greenhouses to see what is Hot and Fresh this week! Chef Perry gets a winter wonderland experience of aromatic fresh herbs and exciting ideas using greens and herbs of superb quality in the middle of a cold Virginia winter.

We still have the clamshell boxes of Arugula, Mix, and Watercress in good supply. The flowers and garnishes can get snatched up quickly for Valentines Day, so now is a good time to call in. The January 17 fresh list still prevails, with a new crop of Pea Shoots! Our main pestos this week are Sorrel (red and green) and Watercress with very high demand on the Basil Pesto. Micro color mix and micro greens have a specific grow cycle so be sure to let us know what you would like: get your orders in early. In general, we are supplying our full range of culinary herbs and microgreens with daily fresh cut orders. Spinach, Tomatoes, cucumbers are committed to advance orders. Red jalapenos (and other chilis) are available, green are in shorter supply.