The salt-crusted method of roasting is kind of a combination between a recipe and a science experiment. It is basically like creating a clay oven around your beets, and this version with coffee grounds adds flavor as well as a baking medium.
Throughout the summer and early fall, I will be spotlighting various merchants at the Tuesday Cold Spring Park Farmers' Market and Friday Post 440 Market and sharing recipes prepared with their produce and products. Merchant: El Recreo Estate Coffee, Dedham, MA/Jinotega, Nicaragua What they sell: “City Roast,” a medium-bold coffee, both in whole beans and ground. About the farm: Hector and Miriam Morales are the US distributors/marketers for the coffee from Miriam’s family farm in Nicaragua. The 364-acre coffee farm has been in operation by her family for 30 years and is the year-round home to 20 families who work on the farm. El Recreo has on its premises a School of Technical Training as well as a school for the children of the workers …
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American Legion Post 440
295 California St, Newton, MA
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Both of these recipes are easy enough that you could probably get some help from the kids in making them- and certainly in eating them!
Throughout the summer and early fall, I will be spotlighting various merchants at the Tuesday Cold Springs Market and Friday Post 440 Market and sharing recipes prepared with their produce and products. Merchant: Hanson’s Farm, Framingham, MA What they sell: Basil, tomatoes, peaches, carrots, flowers, bell peppers, “8-ball zucchini,” golden zucchini, summer, patty-pan and kousa squashes, various lettuces and greens, eggplant, corn- and lemonade. Coming soon: Cabbage, potatoes, more types of tomatoes and raspberries What they say: “This is our second year at the market, but next year we will have been in business for 100 years. I’m the fifth generation! Newton is our second closest market, and it’s busy- lots of traffic, which I really like…
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