Category Archives: Recipes

Green Juice Recipe

Serves 2
Prep time 10 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes

This healthy detox green juice is a refreshing way to enjoy nutrients from fruits and vegetables year-round. And it’s easy to make at home!

Ingredients:

2 cucumbers
4 celery stalks
2 green apples
8 kale (Tuscan cabbage) leaves with stalks
1 lemon
1 in (1 inch) piece of ginger

Directions:

Wash all produce well.
Peel the lemon and core apple.
Add all ingredients through the juicer and enjoy!

Servings: (2) 16 oz (500 ml)

Market Style Glühwein

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Cook Time: 25 min.
Total Time: 25 min.

Christmas Market Style Glühwein is a festive staple also referred to as ‘glow wine’ as it’s referred to for the warmth is give you after drinking it.

With its gentle spice, delicate sweetness, and warming nature, a true Christmas Market experience is not without a steaming cup of Glühwein to keep your chilly hands warm.

Equipment

1 saucepan
1 sieve

Ingredients

1 bottle red wine dry, such as cabernet sauvignon
2 cups water
1 cinnamon stick
6 whole cloves
4 allspice berries
4 tbsp. granulated sugar
1 orange peel with as much pith removed.
1 lemon peel with as much pith removed

Instructions

Add the water, sugar, spices and the peel of the orange and lemon into a large saucepan or pot. Bring to a boil then let simmer for 20 minutes.

Remove the rind and spices using a sieve and add the wine. Heat through until the wine is steaming but don’t let it simmer or boil.

Either serve immediately or store the cooled Glühwein in an airtight container in the fridge and reheat in a saucepan when you want to serve. It will keep for up to 1 week in the fridge in an airtight container.

Spicy Pumpkin and Collards Farmhouse Recipe

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Serves: 4
Cooking time: 2 hours
Prep time: 20 minutes

Sweet pumpkin dishes hog too much of the fall food spotlight, if you ask us.
Our very favorite pumpkin dishes happen to be savory and this might be our all-time favorite because pumpkin truly is THE star here. Picture a pumpkin with the mixture of sauteed collard greens, onion, tomato, chili pepper and scallions, baked and finished off with cheese and breadcrumbs. We found most of the ingredients at the Calabasas Farmers Market.

Ingredients

2 2-to-3-pound sugar pumpkins
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 small onion, diced
1 plum tomato, diced
1 Scotch bonnet chile pepper, seeded and finely chopped
1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
1 clove garlic, chopped
4 scallions, chopped
1 pound frozen chopped collard greens, thawed
Kosher salt
1 cup evaporated milk
Pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
4 tablespoons breadcrumbs (preferably panko)
1 1/2 cups shredded sharp white cheddar cheese

Directions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Slice off the top 1 1/2 inches of the pumpkins and discard. Scoop out the seeds and stringy pulp.
Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion, tomato, chile pepper, thyme and garlic and cook, stirring, until the onion is slightly tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in the scallions and collard greens, add 1 1/4 teaspoons salt and cook, stirring, until the greens are slightly tender, about 15 minutes. Stir in the evaporated milk and nutmeg and bring to a gentle boil. Stir in 2 tablespoons breadcrumbs, the cheddar cheese and the remaining 2 tablespoons butter and cook, stirring, until the cheese melts and the mixture thickens slightly, about 2 minutes. Put the pumpkins in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish and fill evenly with the collard greens mixture.
Toss the remaining 2 tablespoons breadcrumbs with the parmesan. Sprinkle over the filling. Add 1 inch of boiling water to the baking dish. Cover loosely with foil and bake until the pumpkins are tender, about 1 hour, 15 minutes. Remove the foil and continue baking until browned and bubbly on top, about 30 more minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes, then scrape the pumpkin flesh and serve with the collards.

Buffalo Chicken Recipe Featuring Culture Hot Sauce

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Serves: 2-4
Prep time: 30 mins.

For the Farmhouse Recipe we are pairing our preferred protein with their number one Hot Sauce seller. “The Don” from “Culture” Hot Sauce. The flavors this sauce brings to any dish is out of your palate’s world! They took a classic combination of pineapple and habanero and added extra zest to complete and round out the flavors.

Ingredients:

Chicken – Both chicken breasts and chicken thighs are great, but in keeping things on the lighter side, we chose to make this recipe with breast meat. We did not feel the need to sear the chicken breasts before baking. If you decide to use bone-in skin-on chicken thighs, this is a step that I would recommend.
Olive oil – Simply drizzle your chicken breasts with olive oil and toss well to coat.
Salt, pepper, and other seasonings – Since we’re planning to coat our chicken breasts in buffalo sauce we left the seasoning and spices simple with just salt, pepper, and a little garlic powder.
Buffalo Sauce – Prepare your own homemade buffalo sauce with Don Hot Sauce.

The main ingredients in this buffalo sauce include,

Don’s Hot Sauce
Melted butter
Fresh garlic
Honey
Onion powder
Fresh lime juice

Grab a bowl, add all the ingredients, mix it all together, and season to taste.
Does it have enough salt? Pepper? Is it sweet enough?

Preheat oven and prepare chicken

Preheat oven to 400°F and spray a large 11 x 8-inch baking dish with non-stick cooking spray. Add the chicken breasts to your baking dish and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle both sides with salt, pepper, and garlic powder, to season.

Pour your prepared buffalo sauce over the top of the chicken breasts. Thoroughly coat each chicken breast in sauce (I like to use kitchen tongs to rotate each chicken breast 1-2 times). Tent your baking dish with foil and transfer it to the oven. Bake, covered, for 20 minutes. Then uncover and continue to bake for an additional 5-15 minutes, or until internal temperature registers 160°F as measured with a digital meat thermometer.