Springtime Asparagus Pizza Our second place winner in the Vegetables Category submits her recipe from Columbia, South Carolina. She is currently waiting for her asparagus crowns to mature so that she can begin to harvest them out of her own garden! Perhaps you could do the same 🙂 Ingredients: 1 Lemon, thinly sliced and seeded 2 c. water 2 T.…Read More
Lip-Smacking Strawberry Soup I’m excited to tell you about the 2nd place winner in our Fruits Category. This recipe was submitted by Kenneth of Washington, D.C. An avid strawberry grower, he says he would love to grow them all for this recipe but it requires “a heck of a lot of ’em” and therefore more of an abundant harvest than…Read More
Spring Harvest Bruschetta The first place entry in our Vegetables Category comes to us from Elinor in Fiskdale, Massachusetts. She says that we couldn’t have chosen a more enthusiastic family for growing their own produce. Her husband recently built eight new raised beds in addition to their large backyard garden for this year’s growing season! This recipe was so delicious…Read More
Orange-Glazed Fresh Raspberry Muffins The first place winner of the Fruit Category in the 2011 Homegrown Recipe Contest enters from Palm Beach, Florida. Lisa is an avid Strawberry grower and is looking forward to trying her hand at cultivating raspberries this year in her garden. The head of the Holland Bulb Farms Technical Support Department baked these muffins at home…Read More
And the Winners are… Our first Annual Homegrown Recipe Contest was truly a success! I want to express my sincere appreciation for each and every one of our 2011 Homegrown Recipe Contest participants. All of your submissions were wonderful and it was incredibly difficult for us to choose just three winners in each category! However, as promised, we did narrow…Read More
2011 Homegrown Recipe Contest Update First of all, a huge THANK YOU to everyone who entered the 2011 Homegrown Recipe Contest! Due to the OVERWHELMING response of numerous recipes I received, we are going to be announcing a winner next Friday, March 11th instead of this Friday as originally thought. Since the best way to judge a recipe is through…Read More
Summer Squash Bread Recipe I just received this amazing submission to our 2011 Homegrown Recipe Contest the other day! This one comes to us from Lourie in St. Petersburg, Florida: Summer Squash Bread Ingredients: 3 eggs, beaten 2 c. white sugar 1 c. vegetable oil 2 t. vanilla extract 3 c. all-purpose flour 3 t. baking powder 2 t.…Read More
In honor of the upcoming Super Bowl XLV this weekend (and yes, I will be rooting for the Green and Gold :)), I thought I’d share with you one of the yummy entries I’ve received for the 2011 Homegrown Recipe Contest so far: Interception Perfection Dip Ingredients: 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil 1 1/4 c. shallots (thinly sliced) 2 garlic cloves,…Read More
Announcing the 2011 Homegrown Recipe Contest! So it’s getting to be that time! Spring is just around the corner and gardeners all over the country and beginning to plan their fruit and vegetable gardens. We tend to be more concerned about health and stretching our dollar than ever before in this current society. Therefore, planting an “edible” garden has become…Read More
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