The bounty of North Iowa slows, but doesn’t stop in the winter! These recipes feature storage crops (onions, potatoes, winter squash), meat, eggs, honey, and more locally sourced winter ingredients!
Sweet Potato Bacon Frittata A warm and filling frittata perfect for a cold winter's day! Serve for breakfast, lunch, or dinner! Ingredients with an asterisk (*) are available seasonally [...]
Roasted Turkey Thanksgiving doesn't have to be the only day we roast turkey! You can roast one anytime and have enough meat for a few days worth of meals! [...]
Hasselback Potatoes Baked potato meets french fries meets mashed potatoes? Add bacon, cheese, and sour cream for a loaded version or simply butter and salt. This technique works on [...]
Winter Squash Frittata A versatile frittata featuring fall and winter ingredients! You can use butternut, pie pumpkin, acorn, kabocha, or even sweet potatoes. Make this dish for breakfast, lunch, [...]
Osso Buco & Polenta from Mossycup Farms This recipe comes from Laura Tidrick of Mossycup Farms in Clear Lake. She says: Osso buco, made with pork hocks or shanks [...]
Fire Cider Fire Cider is a vinegar infusion often drank in the wintertime to fight colds. Packed with spicy, wellness-supporting ingredients, this cider can be added to hot teas, [...]
Vegetable Stock (Made with Veggie Scraps!) When soup season comes around, you want to be prepared! By saving veggie scraps in the freezer for just a few weeks, you [...]
Winter Squash Chowder The PERFECT cold weather soup! Very flexible, you can use whatever winter squash or potatoes you have on hand. Keep it chunky, so there is still [...]
Pumpkin Seed Clusters A delicious way to use the seeds from any winter squash! Pumpkin, kabocha, spaghetti, delicata, or a combination! Throw them on a salad, eat them as [...]
Carrot Habanero Soup Ingredients with an asterisk (*) are available seasonally right here in North Iowa! Click on select ingredients to find them nearby or stop by your local [...]