Carrot Pasta, From the Farmer’s Kitchen

Simple, hearty, and adaptable, the dish epitomizes what a farm cook might prepare in winter

In a farm cook's hands, a simple seasonal ingredient, like a carrot, is the starting point for a feast. Shutterstock

Many of my favorite recipes come from the kitchens of farmer friends.

There is a pleasing elegance to farm cookery. It’s a cuisine forged by the circumstances of a land-based lifestyle, yet makes total sense in the home kitchens of anyone who wants to serve healthy, plant-based food, and lots of it. Farm cuisine is simple to prepare, able to tame the kind of hunger that follows a day of hard work, and heavy on seasonal veggies.