Fresh from the Garden, the Fields, the Orchards & the Woods

Laughing DUCK GARDENS & Cookery

Recipe Index

You will find some of our recipes in our Rappahannock County based blog, Rappahannock Cook & Kitchen Gardener. There we also chronicle happenings in the kitchen garden - tracking its progresses (or set-backs) throughout the seasons, growing & cooking tips, occasional visits to other kitchen gardens, food discoveries in the Virginia Northern Piedmont area & locavore musings… and other topics related to “real” food.

Note: as we add recipes to the blog, we’ll post them here in the index. So come back often to see what’s new.

Click on the recipe name to be taken to the recipe page. You may then need to scroll down the page, past the introduction, to see the recipe.

 

Updated: December 31, 2008

 

Appetizer/ First Course

© Melon & Virginia Country Ham Salad with Combava (Kaffir Lime) Leaf Dressing

© Tomato Tatin

 

Soups

© Early Fall Tomato Soup

© Tomatillo Chicken Soup

© Apple & Carrot Soup

© Tomatillo Corn Chowder

 

 

Vegetable Side or Main

© Chayote Shoots with Ginger Pork

© Fall Salads

© Really Good Spaghetti (Tomato) Sauce

© Savory Oven Tomato Preserve

© Fall Rainbow Stir Fry (with Chicken)

 

Meat & Poultry

© Pork Roast: Spit Roasting a Whole Pig

© Chayote Shoots with Ginger Pork

© Roast Chicken

© True Coq au Vin

© Pork Chops with Chunky Pepper Tomatillo Sauce

 

Beverages

© Ruby Lemonade

© Lemon-Verbena Syrup

© Peach Liqueur

© Super Easy Smoothie

© Cranberry Shrub

 

 

Sauces & Condiments

© Peach Salsa

© Gusto’s Hot Pepper Sauce

© Sylvie’s Hot Red Pepper Sauce

© Fresh Simmered Tomato Sauce

© Tomato Paste

 

 

Desserts

© Lemon-Verbena Poached Peaches

Baking

© Rustic Summer Fruit Tart

© Very Easy Rustic Peach Tart

© Upside Down Pineapple Cake  (for a crowd as well as individual sized cake)

© Maple Vanilla Baked Custard

© Upside Down Plum Spiced Cake

© Rusty’s Italian Plum Cake

 

Sorbets & Ice-Cream

© Minty Green Apple Sorbet

© Peachy-Wild Berries Jubilee

© Minty Wild Blackberry Sorbet

© White Peach Sorbet

© Strawberry Sorbet

© Lavender Wineberry Sorbet

 

Jam, Jelly & Other Confections

© Red Currant Jelly

 

Miscellaneous

© Quick ChickeN Broth