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Farm To Table

Get to know your knife and it will become your best friend in the kitchen

Ian Knauer

What does one do with 50 pounds of leftover pig?

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You can do a lot with an egg, but sometimes it's the simplest thing that's just so good.

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This ketchup is one you can feel really good about eating.

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This is the latest post in Ian Knauer's Farm to Table series. Ian will be checking in weekly throughout the season with recipes and stories from his family farm in Knauertown, PA.

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I'm the kind of guy who likes making things, so a few years ago I ordered some hop plants to use in my home brew.

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I planted this herb once, years ago. I've never had to since.

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I have so much goddamn zucchini I don't know what to do with it. But my sister wanted pizza, so that gave me an idea...

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The berries, which look like polished rubies and taste like raspberry wine, ripen during June and July.

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Building a wood-burning oven helps you take advantage of wood smoke as a flavoring agent and get you out of the kitchen on sweltering summer days.

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I even encourage the weeds, because within the wild tangle there is a hidden gift: purslane.

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Because we live in a small and seasonless world, I went to the store and I bought a lobster this week. And it was delicious.

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I gather harvest armfuls and make fresh mint tea. I shovel it into tabouli salads. Of course, mint juleps are on constant rotation this summer, too.

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Radishes abound this time of year. Here's one way to serve them--for breakfast.

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Ian Knauer writes about life on his farm. This week, he's picking strawberries and shares his strawberry shortcake recipe.

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Ian Knauer writes about life on his farm. This week, tragedy at the Knauer farmstead. Upside? Delicious chicken liver sandwiches for lunch.

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Ian Knauer writes about life on his farm. This week, he's thinning the garlic (who stays? who goes?) and sharing his Spring Garlic Roast Chicken recipe. And it's good.

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Ian Knauer writes about life on his farm. This week, he plants rhubarb and shares his Rhubarb Compote recipe.

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Ian Knauer writes about life on his farm. This week, what to do with an abundance of watercress? Ditch the usual salad and create this riff on a poor man's creamed spinach.

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Ian Knauer hunts for the elusive morel and gives his recipe for cooking the spring mushrooms.

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I got a voicemail from the post office first thing Monday morning. "Uhh, hi, Mr. Knauer, uhh... [long pause] ...your chicks are here..."

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There is only one more jar of homemade ketchup left in the pantry. It is the end of last summer's bounty and I've been putting off opening it. In fact, back in late February ...

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