Big news from the Full Belly Farm Kitchen: We wrote a cookbook!
Wow, I think it may have been 10 years or more since you last heard from us in these pages. A lot has happened! We have three beautiful children who are or are about to enter their teen years, a new farm dog, and in 2015 we moved into our Farm Kitchen. Perhaps you have been out to the farm for a pizza night, a farm dinner, Hoes Down, or an open farm day visit in the past and have seen this space for yourself. In case you have not, it is a big redwood building that looks like a grand old barn with a water tower on the side. The landscaping has grown up along with us, and there are vines of jasmine and wisteria climbing the walls. We have butterfly bushes, vitex, native grasses, and big trees that provide much needed shade in the summer months. There is a big lawn out front that has been danced on by thousands of feet, and witnessed many, many happy occasions and gatherings of friends and family.
Over the years we always had a secret dream of writing a cookbook. People would ask us when that was happening, and we demurred ~ feeling too overwhelmed with the busyness of raising young kids and keeping a business going all at the same time. We never knew how it could fit into our daily to do list that was already too long. At the same time, we kept plugging away at our farm dinner series, creating new recipes and testing them out on our guests. After so many years, we realized we had quite a compilation. At one of our dinners about two years back, Hannah’s book agent and her photographer were guests. At the end of the evening, they pointedly asked, “So, when are you going to do YOUR book?” We both said, “Let’s go for it.”
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We had the most beautiful baby pigs born at the farm last thursday. Our sow, Candy, was bred with a wild boar so the piglets were born with a wide array of colors and markings. They are as fast as can be, and some have almost doubled in weight since their birth! 
When I was little, growing up in New Mexico, an artichoke was a huge treat. My family of five would get one artichoke, and carefully divvy up the leaves and the heart. The first time I ate artichokes at the farm, I was floored when a huge steaming platter of them was brought to the table and everyone ate at least 3! It is still a huge treat, and I can’t wait for these little babies to be ready. 
