Sorrel recipes

Sorrel Recipes: The following I copied from another blog...I would like to post a link to their blog...but, am still learning.

ENJOY!

Sorrel and Goat Cheese Quiche.


2-3 cups sorrel, coarsely chopped
a few scallions, chopped
3-4 ounces goat cheese (chevre)
3 eggs
1½ cups milk
¼ teaspoon salt
Parmesan cheese

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spread goat cheese (or any strong flavored cheese) in the bottom of a piecrust. Cover with chopped sorrel and scallions. Beat eggs, salt and milk together. Pour over greens. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until top is golden brown.ps.

Source: A Luna Circle Farm original recipe

Cream of Sorrel Soup

Clean, shred from the midrib and chop:
½ cup sorrel leaves
1½ cups leaf lettuce

Sauté them until wilted in:
1 to 2 tablespoons butter
When they are sufficiently wilted, there will be only about 3 tablespoons of leaves.

Add:
5 cups poultry or vegetable stock
Simmer about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and add a small amount of the soup to:
½ cup cream
3 beaten egg yolks

Combine all ingredients and heat until the soup thickens slightly, but do no boil. Makes 5 to 6 cups.

Source: Joy of Cooking


Sorrel Pesto: great as an interesting pasta coating or a thick sauce for fish.

2 cups coarsely chopped fresh sorrel, ribs removed
1/3 cup packed fresh parsley leaves
2 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
1/3 cup freshly grated parmesan
1/4 cup pine nuts
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup olive oil

In a food processor or blender puree the sorrel, the parsley, the garlic, the parmesan, the pine nuts and the oil, transfer the pesto to a jar with a tight fitting lid and chill it, covered. The pesto keeps, covered and chilled, for 2 weeks. Makes about 1 cup.

To use the pesto: For every pound of dried pasta cooking in a kettle of boiling water, stir together in a heated serving bowl 3/4 cup of the pesto and 2/3 cup of the hot cooking water. When the pasta is al dente, drain it in a colander, add it to the pesto mixture, and toss the mixture until the pasta is coated well. Vermicelli works very well with this recipe.

Nabila, Wawan's (our sales manager) daughter, standing in our Sorrel beds and eating Sweet Corn fresh from the stalk!

what's been going on???

Well, since the arrival of Hollywood with the filming of Eat, Pray, Love....Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem have been munching on the same salad greens as you!

That's right...Island Organics is what the movie stars choose!

As well as YOGINIS and RAW food addicted folks at Radiantly Alive's retreat up in UBUD.

Between the 2 busy events...we have been kept very busy harvesting, nota writing and money collecting. That's what you do, right?


We were able to fit in a sales team farm visit this past saturday...we munched our way around the farm, tricking each other into eating the spicyest mustard leaves by calling them "manis" and filling our bellies with raw sweet corn and lot's of Italian Basil for NOLI.

We are still working on our systems, getting it all in working order...we already have a new pricelist update with small changes happening daily to help us, you and Nuade.

We are really excited to start doing our farm visits and work parties "get dirty" is our motto. Hoping to begin doing those next month or sooner if the interest arises.

Also MAY 2010 will be the start of FIREFLY in baturiti.

keep checking back for more new and exciting info...

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Wednesday deliveries to Ubud Area
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Friday deliveries to Southern Bali
orders must be placed by wednesday 12pm

Please place your orders with NINGSIH:
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Island Organics is coming home...

Yup...that's right... Island Organics will become part of Big Tree Farms once again.

When we started this crazy farming thing way back in 1998...it was all we did and then we realized if we ever wanted to send our kids to school or visit our families in the US...there had to be something else...That was the birth of Big Tree Farms.

BTF was born and became a monster, as any new baby sort of is, and Island Organics started going through that jealousy thing that some older siblings have. IO started recreating itself under many new names and and forms and always sort of saying "here i am" but, never actually getting the full attention. Then it almost had to die to make us see that if we still wanted to eat the best produce on the island we would have to give some love and attention to big sister farm.

We could not give up our beloved misticanza salad or our super-charged kale and chard...therefore, here we are again.

BTF will manage accounting, logistics and sales and we will leave the farming part to the people who do it best...THE FARMERS.

We have new seeds, a larger community of farmers and excited people handling every aspect of our operations.

We look forward to supplying you healthy and happy vegetables, farm dinners, and get dirty work parties ( as in mud dirty up at the farm). More info will follow...

Hope to see or hear from you all soon!