Food Glorious Food

***Wednesday, March 30th, 2011***

Dale keeps saying "In like a lion, out like a lamb", but I wasn't buying it until the last couple of days. It's cold, but it is sunny out and I see new buds everywhere!!

Last weekend I had the delicious pleasure of attending a Brookside Farm cooking class. I and two friends joined Barbara in her country kitchen and were taught how to cook an amazing and healthy meal. Best of all, almost all the ingredients came out of Barbara's backyard.

I find that while most of us feel pleased when we don't heat up an instant meal for dinner, we still are not cooking from scratch. Things still come out of cans and boxes in our "home cooked meals". I felt like a cooking star that day. We even made our own bread.

Take a look at this:

SUNDAYS @ THE FARM

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cooking a family feast

BROOKSIDE FARM offers hands-on cooking classes, where you learn to prepare a four-course meal for your family, using local, seasonal, organic ingredients. The Farm Kitchen has room for three "cooks" and their partners and kids to join us for the dinner.

MENU FOR MARCH

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winter squash strudel

roasted parsnip & cider soup

roasted beet salad

braised lamb shanks

potato & onion bread

apple-cranberry galette

with vanilla ice cream

I never thought I'd cook lamb! Anyway, it was a lot of fun and there was a lot of activity going on when our combined 7 kids made it to the table!!

Barbara's home is a great place to host a dinner or party. Contact her for more information. She has a wonderful place that she is kind enough to share with the rest of us.