Recipes
Here you’ll find an ever-growing collection of some of the Durst Organic Growers’ Family Favorites. As much as we love to grow food, we really love to eat it.
If you’ve gotten this far into our website, you probably already know that we put a lot of thought and care into practicing responsible and sustainable farming methods when growing produce. What we also care quite a lot about, though, is flavor! Because, as Jim often says,
“If it doesn’t taste good, what’s the point?”
This salad is a delightfully refreshing spring treat. Both the asparagus and celery are kept raw - enhanced by sweet almonds, zingy lemon juice, and fresh mint. It comes together very quickly, but delivers a lot of flavor! Simple food for big flavor. The cheese is optional, but highly recommended.
This jam is quite a seasonal treat! Try spreading on toast with butter or ricotta, using in sandwiches, drizzling over some vanilla ice cream, making jam bars or windowpane cookies, adding into salad dressings, as the base for a ham or BBQ glaze - get creative with it!
Simply roasted winter squash is, simply put, great. It’s so easy to do, and it lets the flavors of each variety shine on their own.
This recipe has it all - sweetness from the squash, a kick from the chili paste, savory scallions, crunchy sesame seeds - and is oh-so-easy to put together! It’s a great way to use butternut, and sure to be one of your new favorite fall dishes.
Savor the summer with this watermelon agua fresca.
Make this Broiled Sweet Corn salad with cherry tomatoes as a side for any summer sun-soaked meal. Bonus: enjoy the leftovers (should there be any) as a salsa, quesadilla filling, toast topping, or tossed with some cooked grains.
With our tomato vines bursting with colorful ripe fruit, and local peaches filling the farmers market stands with their sweet scent, we were excited to come across a recipe featuring both of these summer delights!
Watermelon slushies are a fantastic way to “beat the heat,” so to speak. They are so refreshing you may just find yourself “enjoying” the heat.
Cherry Tomato Jam! You might just be surprised by how often you reach for it…
This recipe is as delicious as it is simple. Make a big batch of the seasoning to have it on hand all summer long.
No, this isn’t a How-To for eating half a pint of tomatoes — it’s a quick trick for slicing an entire pint into halves at once!
Looking for a new spring recipe? Look no further! This is it.
Asparagus + Dates + Goat Cheese + Radishes + Lemon + Mint = Wow.
Looking for a fresh and easy way to prepare asparagus? This salad is the answer!
An incredibly easy way to turn your pureed winter squash (sugar pie pumpkin, kabocha, butternut!) into a delicious, creamy, pasta sauce, this recipe makes us wish we’d stockpiled more squash in our winter pantries! If you have the puree on hand (homemade, of course!), it comes together in a snap.
With dried cherry tomatoes, you CAN enjoy the warmth and delight of summer on a chilly winter morning with these tomato-cheddar-onion buttermilk scones. (We’re thanking our late-summer selves right now for putting the dehydrator to good use…)
Here’s a simple how-to guide for preparing spaghetti squash: a cheery winter squash known for its noodle-like flesh. Its uses extend far beyond the spaghetti substitution your mind might automatically go to: remove “spaghetti” from your thoughts and open up your kitchen to all the fun possibilities!
Late October may seem an odd time to be sharing a recipe for melons, let alone a recipe that calls for the freezer, but we planted a late crop of Cantaloupe this year, so they’re still rolling in and what better time to try preserving some of their delicacy for a winter day when we’re dreaming of sunshine?
When the seasons change, the temperatures cool, and we’re feeling “cozy,” BUT we still have a taste for tomatoes…it’s time to roast! Here are our favorite ways to roast tomatoes and keep on enjoying them into the cooler days of Fall.
Try making a batch of this drinking vinegar to keep you hydrated and refreshed! All you need is a melon, sugar, vinegar and time.
Next time you’re cutting into a watermelon, save just enough to give this fun, fresh, simple summer snack a try!
Corn and tomatoes: a match made in Summer.
The two best things about this recipe are as follows: the fresh tomatoes and the roasted tomatoes. So, in sum, it’s the tomatoes…this pasta tastes like summer on a plate.
It’s hard to stray from simply prepared asparagus, especially at the start of the season, but we are (almost) always happy when we push ourselves to try a new recipe with our farm fresh organic produce. Inspired by the Pasta Grannies, we tried our hand at making asparagus sauce recently. The results? SO GOOD. What else can we use this with?
RAW Winter Squash?! Under the guidance of Joshua McFadden in his book, Six Seasons, we tried making a raw winter squash salad. Here’s how, why, and what we thought!
From field to soup! This is one of Deborah’s favorite winter squash soup recipes, and thanks to a special secret ingredient, it comes together very quickly and brings a lot of flavor! If you don’t have a sugar pie pumpkin, a butternut would make a fine substitute.
Try making these “Tomato Crisps,” (disclaimer: they’re really just dehydrated cherry tomatoes) to get you through the cold season until fresh cherry tomatoes are available once more. They’re great on their own as a crunchy snack, or they make a nice topping for salads, pastas, soups, pizzas…the list goes on!
Those greens look good enough to eat! Here’s how to make a pesto with collard greens, and some ideas for alternative ingredients and ways to eat it.
As we enter the Persephone Period, the sun is sleeping in a little bit later every morning -- a telling reminder that the seasons are shifting. Here’s what that means out at Hungry Hollow…
This may not be news to anyone, but making pumpkin puree is VERY easy. All you really need is a knife, a spoon, and an oven. With small, freezable, storage containers, you can make a large batch and keep it on hand for when you’re ready to use it.
These recipes featuring tomatoes and winter squash (sometimes both!) are sure to help you savor the last of summer, while easing into fall.