Bacon spinach alfredo over homemade pasta

The members of our farm's Community Supported Agriculture program received their final share of the year last week.  That means my workload has lightened a bit, and combine that with dreary, rainy, cool weather here at the farm... time for some cooking!

My husband made homemade pasta (whole wheat), featuring our farm's free-range eggs.  I was ecstatic, as he hasn't made his homemade noodles since we moved out to the farm (almost 2 years ago already!). My contribution to the pasta:  homemade alfredo sauce, our farm's bacon sauteed with our farm's sweet winter spinach.

Sorry to make you look at this picture without being able to taste it... yes it was delicious! So delicious!

The recipe for the whole wheat pasta and alfredo sauce can both be found on the Recipe page of this blog (link at left). Here are some direct links:

 -Homemade whole wheat pasta (scroll down below the ravioli picture to see the basic recipe):  http://all-natural-mama.blogspot.com/2009/09/stuffed-tomatoes-homemade-ravioli.html

-Homemade Alfredo Sauce: http://all-natural-mama.blogspot.com/2009/02/award-winning-alfredo-sauce_18.html

Oh, Yum!
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Winter greenhouses going up!

Busy on the farm today... the greenhouses are going up over a portion of the winter garden.

Last year, we & our customers enjoyed salad greens all winter long with the help of our mini-greenhouses. They are heated not with fossil fuels, but by passive solar. Working with nature!

The greenhouse plastic will probably go on within the next few days. I'm a bit late getting this done this year, but hoping to have it done just in the nick of time. We've already had low temperatures in the upper teens on several nights!
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Spinach harvest at Wishful Acres!

harvesting & washing winter spinach. so sweet!