Baked Potato & Mushroom Quesadillas and Tomato Chile Sauce with Fresh Tomato & Avocado Salsa A recipe with a long name and LOTS of taste was submitted by Angela in Holly Springs, North Carolina for the third place spot in the Vegetables Category. Angela sounds as though she is constantly busy in the garden, growing tomatoes, peppers, onions, and more.…Read More
Berry Pecan Salad with Red Berry Vinaigrette Erin Dalton of East Stone Gap, Virginia was the contestant who claimed the Second Place spot in the Fruits Category. Her Berry Pecan Salad was so refreshing, it seemed like the perfect recipe to share right before the spring season begins! Erin is an avid fruit and vegetable gardener and has grown all…Read More
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
Kitchen Gardens: Combining Beauty and Utility At first I thought a kitchen garden was a fancy term for Vegetable Garden, at least in my world it was 🙂 I wanted to be accurate when talking about vegetable and kitchen gardens so I did a little research on kitchen gardens and found out that a true kitchen garden is more than…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
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