From cook Courtney Sonia- Aquatic vegetables often get overlooked here in Maine (and probably the rest of the states, I’m assuming). Unless sushi is on the menu, kelp is almost nowhere to be seen – and what a shame! It wasn’t until this past spring that I was introduced to the idea of eating seaweed …
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From cook Courtney Sonia- Pho at Chewonki! Pho, a Vietnamese soup, is a favorite here at Chewonki. The dish consists of a savory broth, rice noodles, a protein, and an assortment of toppings. We make our pho with tofu as the protein, and we use seasonal vegetables and herbs as toppings. Pho broth is unlike …
At the close of each semester we create a special thank-you cake for all the students who are so helpful in the kitchen. Named for our wood-fired boiler, the Bluemont Food Cake consists of chocolate sponge cake rolled up with whipped cream and slathered with cocoa buttercream. Thanks again, Semester 53!
The kitchen is thrilled to be welcoming the first green vegetables of the season from our farm: pea shoots! Although these were grown indoors (our gardens are still buried in snow), this is just the beginning of good things to come. Thank you, farmers!
This spring the kitchen will be baking about 200 loaves of bread for our residential Outdoor Classroom programs. We started doing this in 2010 in an effort to reduce the amount of over-processed foods on campus. Through the years we have increased our use of local grains in this product to over half! Chewonki Packout Bread (Makes …
This week we reached another dairy milestone – 4000 gallons of milk pasteurized since we became a licensed producer in June 2012. Our Jersey cows, Gerry and Halo, are currently producing about 85 pounds of milk (about 10 gallons) a day. At that rate, our farm should be able to provide about half of our …
A poem written by Farm Activity Campers and Staff Once on a farm that we call Salt Marsh Lay 150 lbs. of potatoes to wash Moments before, our hands in the dirt Most of it ending up on our shirts We hunted for treasure; the gold and the red And with our pitchforks, we …
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