Tree and Leaf
has a new home!!!

After renting farm land for the past
8 years we finely bought our own farm in Unionville, Virginia.
Now the hard part begins, moving farm and home and getting back to market by March 2010.

Watermelon Radish Salad

- 2 shredded radish
- 4 tablespoon soy sauce
- 4 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 1 tspoon chopped ginger
- 2 dashes fish sauce
- 3 dashes sesame seed oil
- 2 tspoons sesame seeds

Mix together and let stand for 10 min.
Eat and enjoy, alone or with brown rice

Eoin in the broccoli patch
Fall is the best time for broccoli they a sweet and crunchy. The field in front of our house is booming right now.

Eoin birthday at Dupont Circle Market. 8.9.09

Mount Pleasant Farmers Market 6.13.2009

Stormy sky
and Chiogga Beets.

I love the contrast of the gray sky with the bright red beets.

It is always a good idea to be inside cooking when it is raining.

This week I made Chive pancakes with stir fried greens, carrots and edamame. The chive pancakes were made with chickpea flour, and are very simple and fun to make.

Chive Pancakes with chickpea flower
1 cup chickpea flour
1 cup white flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 cup chopped chives
pinch of salt
pepper to taste
enough water to make mixture the thickness of heavy cream

Mix together all dry ingredients except for chives.
whisk in water.
Set aside for one hour.

Heat pan with enough cooking oil to coat the bottom.
Pour batter sprinkle about 1 tablespoon of chives on top of pancake.
Cook first side for approximately 3 min,
flip
and cook other side for 1 min.