{"id":1677,"date":"2012-08-14T20:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2012-08-14T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T20:02:18","slug":"farm-focus-battle-of-the-peaches-ripe-the-cookbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/farm-focus-battle-of-the-peaches-ripe-the-cookbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Focus: Battle of the Peaches & Ripe the cookbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\nA few months back Farmer Al joined cookbook author and blogger Chery Sternman Rule at Omnivore Books in San Francisco for a book reading and signing of her recently released cookbook Ripe: A Fresh, Colorful Approach to Fruits and Vegetables<\/em>.\u00a0 Frog Hollow Farm was pleased to be in such good company and to provide samples of fruit to guests at the event.\n\nRipe<\/em> is a collaborative effort between Cheryl, who created the recipes featured in the book, and Paulette Phlipot, whose beautiful photography captures each recipe.\u00a0 Ripe<\/em> takes a fresh approach to cooking with produce and is arranged by color.\u00a0 The jewel colored pages offer accessible and delicious preparations featuring a wide range of fruits and vegetables.\u00a0 Cheryl\u2019s fun and open narrative style adds to the book\u2019s appeal.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great book for kids because of it\u2019s colorful appeal, beautiful images, and smaller format.\u00a0 Millie and Maddie, Farmer Al and Becky\u2019s kids, love flipping through it and pointing out recipes that includes fruit grown in their backyard - the orchard!\u00a0 This week\u2019s recipe and accompanying photo were provided compliments of Cheryl and Paulette.\u00a0 Thanks to them both for creating such a beautiful and delicious book.\n\nAnnual Battle of the Peaches<\/strong>\n\nEach year Frog Hollow Farm hosts a Battle of the Peaches.\u00a0 The contenders are two of our most coveted peach varieities - the O\u2019Henry\u2019s and Cal Red\u2019s.\u00a0 The battle began over 20 years ago between Sarah Coddington, FHF co-owner and Farmer Al.\u00a0 Sarah favors the O\u2019Henry and Farmer Al\u2019s favorite is the Cal Red.\u00a0 Every year our customers cast their votes to determine the best tasting variety.\u00a0 This past Saturday, our Farmers Market stands through out the Bay Area hosted a blind taste test and customers cast their vote.\u00a0 You all tried the O\u2019Henry over the past two weeks.\u00a0 This week\u2019s box features the Cal Red.\u00a0 Cast your vote on your favorite variety at http:\/\/poll.fm\/3u6fx and help us determine this year\u2019s winner.\u00a0 When CSA members add on a full flat of a specific variety (Cal Red or O\u2019Henry) you\u2019ll get a FHF free t-shirt which features your allegiance to your favorite variety (while supplies last).","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months back Farmer Al joined cookbook author and blogger Chery Sternman Rule at Omnivore Books in San Francisco for a book reading and signing of her recently released cookbook Ripe: A Fresh, Colorful Approach to Fruits and Vegetables.\u00a0 Frog Hollow Farm was pleased to be in such good company and to provide samples […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-r3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}