Are You Ready for More Sautéed Kale? Our little garden is trucking along! The peas are just about ready to harvest, baby tomatoes are growing on the vine, and the kale and collards are still going strong. This is the first year that I have had the time to really put into the garden and…
Recipes with Stuffed Shells: Creamy sausage stuffed shells with zucchini Stuffed shells are one of those dishes that seem really complicated and taste like they took hours to make, but overall, they’re pretty simple to cook up. With that said, a lot of recipes with stuffed shells tend to call for red sauce to cradle…
Cooking Italian sausage in the oven If you’ve ever been to Jasper’s in Kansas City and had one of their grilled Italian sausage sandwiches, you may be asking yourself why anyone would want to cook Italian sausages in the oven. While there is something to flame kissing an Italian sausage, I kind of prefer cooking…
Are you excited for kale season? If you’re like most people, you’re probably not excited. Also, if you have a garden, are part of a CSA, or have been to a farmer’s market, more than likely you now have some kale and have no idea what to do with it. The sad fact is that…
It’s New Restaurant Saturday! I mean, it happens every Saturday, but we just posted our New Restaurant Saturday recap episode for March 18, 2023. That was a crazy day for us since we had just gotten back to Kansas City from Orlando. We’d hopped a 6am flight from Orlando and went from 80 degree weather…
Robert is Here, I am Not There What you see to the left is called Mamey Sapote or just mamey. This culinary wonder was purchased at a place called Robert is Here in Homestead, FL (which is a suburb of Miami, FL and is listed as a place you should go when you visit the…
Hen House CSA Week 3: Returning to our German Roots This week’s CSA saw an almost too-colorful-for-words bounty of produce (as you can see) and an ingredient that made me probably just a little too excited: kielbasa. I like kielbasa. Like a lot. Amongst the realm of sausages, kielbasa edges out bratwurst and sweet Italian…
Why Have Veggies When You can Have Gravy? Well, week 2 is in the books and as you can see, Hen House has provided an amazing array of produce again! The Napa cabbage was crisp and perfect, the radishes red and firm, and the tomatoes were rich and juicy. So naturally we decided to make…
Slow Cooked Good Natured Family Farms Chuck? Sure! Remember last time we talked about the Hen House CSA? Well, now we’re going to get serious. What are we going to do with all our take! This week’s bag star was, in my opinion, the Good Natured Family Farms chuck roast. A nice little piece of…
Hen House CSA It’s been a while since the Blog Well Done family has been part of a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. If you’re not familiar with CSA programs, you basically buy a share of a locally-owned farm’s output in return for a guaranteed amount of their output during the season. The farm’s happy…