Simple Summer Dinners
Summer is the time to pick orchard-fresh fruits and garden-crisp vegetables. It’s the time to soak up sun and splash in water. It’s not the time to spend all afternoon cooped up in the kitchen. Weavers offers several ways to…
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Asparagus Salad & Pasta Primavera
It’s asparagus season! Thankfully this uniquely flavored vegetable has a pretty long season in Pennsylvania – from April to June. It seems like everyone has their favorite way of preparing asparagus, so we asked our Facebook fans how they liked…
How to Cook a Fresh Turkey
Our meat department manager, Dave Howe, has been working hard the last few weeks to coordinate getting the freshest local turkeys available for your Thanksgiving meal! Dave has some great tips on how to cook the perfect fresh turkey: Also,…
Thanksgiving Recipes, New & Old
Over the years, I’ve come to love many of the recipes my family cooks for Thanksgiving. While I do have many favorite Thanksgiving recipes I’d never want to replace, I’ve enjoyed spending the holidays with my husband’s family and learning…
Grocery Budgeting Tips, Part 4: From the Kitchen of Becky Talbot
Since we just moved into a new apartment this month, I’ve been slacking on grocery budgeting. Our fridge shelves look roomy and the potatoes, yogurt, and leftovers that do occupy the shelves are so decayed they look like science experiments gone…
Grocery Budgeting Tips, Part 2: From the Kitchen of Rachel VanDuzer
“Did you use up the mushrooms in your omelet this morning?” I asked my husband. “No,I don’t think so,” he replied. From that conversation, I determined that I must have mushrooms in my refrigerator still, so I decided not to…
Creamy Asparagus Over Baked Potatoes
Asparagus! It’s here! This is the best time of year to eat local asparagus! The cool spring weather here in Berks county yields the best asparagus– and we have an abundance of it here at our Farm Market. When it’s fresh I…
A Good Meal – Free Range Beef Spaghetti
Last Friday was a warm March day, over seventy degrees, and I opened the screen door while I cooked dinner. The kitchen filled with earthy breezes, the radio’s banter, and the sound and smell of sizzling free-range beef. I mixed…