If I had to pick a favorite dessert, albeit a difficult task, it would probably be strawberry shortcake. I always asked for it as my birthday cake as a little girl. There are many variations, some with pound cake, angel food cake, or a genoise. But my favorite and perhaps the most classic is to … [Read more...]
Strawberry Fields
Last week started the season for strawberry picking on the island. Moors End Farm strawberries were ready first so we headed out there in the evening to pick a few quarts with friends. It was a beautiful day and the stroll down to the strawberry field was charming in the evening light. The staff … [Read more...]
Market Days 2014
The Sustainable Nantucket Farmers & Artisans Market began for the 2014 season in early June. Fare Isle will be there every Saturday throughout the summer and early fall selling our edibles and wares. Be sure to stop by from 9am to 1pm on upper Cambridge St. and Union St. (between the Post Office … [Read more...]
Garden Journal <> Spring Comfrey Harvest
Recently we harvested the spring crop of our comfrey plants. Before they were done flowering we cut them back and now they will vigorously grow up again and we will have a second harvest come late summer. Comfrey is one of the important healing medicinal herbs used in our Vital Healing skincare … [Read more...]
Garden Journal <> May
beautiful flowers of the healing comfrey plant. comfrey is a key ingredient in our skincare products. May saw the garden begin to come to life with the return of our perennial herbs, flowers and fruiting bushes and trees. The heirloom radishes were the first vegetable ready for picking come mid … [Read more...]
Recipe: Vegan Strawberry Rhubarb Wheat Bran Crumb Top Muffins
Any excuse to eat more rhubarb, I'm there. I just love its complex sour flavor that comes alive with a touch of sweetness added to it. Strawberries and rhubarb go together like, well like strawberries and rhubarb. Vegan Strawberry Rhubarb Wheat Bran Crumb Top Muffins Muffins … [Read more...]
Wine Fest
Image sourced from NWF's website We're gearing up for our first local event this season: the annual Nantucket Wine Festival will take place next week from May 14th to 18th. You can find Fare Isle's booth at the Culinary Marketplace under the tent at Children's Beach on Friday May 16th from … [Read more...]
Recipe: Vegan Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
We had some cool rainy weather last week and I was inspired to bring some color into the house. The last of spring blooms we picked from the garden helped bring some much-needed cheer and the over-ripening pineapples I bought from the market on special were calling to me. Pineapple upside down cake … [Read more...]
Recipe: Vegan Sweet Roll Dough and Bunny Rolls for Easter
Ok, I have a disclaimer...we don't celebrate Easter, but I love these sweet bunny rolls that my mama would always make every year. My parents came to visit us last weekend, which just happened to be Easter and I really wanted to try a vegan whole-wheat version of these rich rolls. I took full … [Read more...]
Garden Journal <> Early April
Last week was our first real taste of warm spring weather and we made the most of it by tending to the gardens. In the first days of April I planted shelling and snap peas along with carrots, beets and radishes, all heirloom varieties. The radish were the first to sprout followed by the peas and … [Read more...]
Recipe: Vegan Un-Meatballs
I know some of you have been waiting for this one and I'm so happy to finally share it with you all. I am of Italian and Irish heritage and like every other Italian American family out there I grew up eating meatballs and spaghetti at least once a week. Mom's sauce bubbling away on the stove, a big … [Read more...]
Garden Journal <> Signs of Spring
A few of years ago J dug up a patch of earth on the side of the house facing east where the morning sun rises. We planted a small variety of spring bulbs, some raspberry seedlings given to us by our midwife, and last year we added a large rosemary bush and a rhubarb plant. Now each spring we wait … [Read more...]
Fare Isle Garden Journal
This is the time of year when Spring teases us with a few days of winter thawing and then snaps right back to freezing temperatures again. The excitement of spring starts much earlier for me, though. It's when the seed catalogs arrive at our doorstep painted in a chimera of rainbow colors, that my … [Read more...]
