Moving on...

Our first recipe post:


with hopes to feature something tasty bi-weekly..

To start:

Apertif drink- Lillet- [pronounced Lee-lay] is a French aperitif wine blend of Bordeaux grapes: Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon and Muscadelle & liqueurs from peels of Spanish & Moroccan oranges & bitter green oranges from Haiti. Serve super chilled (approx. 43 * F) or on the rocks, with citrus peels or slice of lemon, orange, or lime.
Lightly sweet with notes of honey and citrus, this is the perfect hot summer evening cocktail served extra cold.

We tasted the Lillet before and after adding Lemon (zest + juice) and thought it was brightened and its flavors brought out with the lemon included.

Onto zee dinner..


Serves 3.

Ingredients:


Veggies:

5 young green garlic bulbs- keep greens whole, roughly chop bulb.

5 small wild crafted chive bulbs- minced

5 large stalks Slow Roots Farm's Rainbow Chard- rip into large shreds

1 small (organic) zucchini- High Falls Co-op- check out their blog! http://www.highfallsfoodcoop.com/
- sliced into large rectangles

Juice of 1 organic lemon

French Thyme, Cayenne, Sesame Seeds- just a pinch of each

Sea Salt- Cracked Pep

Home Grown Basil [grown by zoylentgreen +charbot]

Fish:

Wild Caught Canadian Flounder- 4 small fillets

Juice of 3/4 of a lemon

S+P, cumin, thyme, 5 sprigs of saffron, rosemary- sprinkle of each


Shrooms:

+ marinade= French thyme, rosemary, evoo, white wine vin, s+p

Place Fish, veggies,+ shrooms into seperate aluminum foil pouches and toss onto the grill.

Serve with Whitecliff Vineyard Traminette. Traminette,a grape developed by Cornell, was hybridized from Gewurztraminer using cross pollination, and cultivated for cool climates, making it the perfect grape for the cool climate and short growing season of the Hudson Valley. Spicy and floral with lots of tropical fruit. Aroma of lychee, extremely aromatic and zesty, the perfect accompaniment to anything spicy.

www.whitecliffwine.com

Our huge bundle of Rainbow Chard came from Slow Roots Farm, located 6 miles from two of our CraftyCREW members in Stone Ridge. This super cool CSA started yesterday, with shares still available, and weekly pick ups on Wednesday at the farm. For more into check it out

http://slowrootsfarm.com/



Here's an interview with Jacob, the guy who does it all, with his farm, Esopus Creek, before he changed the name to Slow Roots.