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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Creative Ways to Cook from the Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Let’s think beyond basic garden salads in the kitchen, and who better to tell us than Chris Starkus, who has been a professional chef for over 25 years. He shares a few of his favorite creative ways to use your garden produce in the kitchen. Connect With Chris Starkus: After being a professional chef for 25 years, Chris Starkus pivoted his career and became an eco-entrepreneur, partner and CSO of Boss Defrost.  He is also a Journeyman beekeeper, Organic Farmer, committed to 360-degree sustainability and transparency. Boss Defrost (Instagram) Chris Starkus' Instagram | Twitter Lost Creek Microfarm | Instagram |Twitter Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is up everyone?

0:04.0

What is up everyone? Welcome back to our final episode for now with Chris Starkus.

0:20.0

So those of you who have been listening to the podcast for a while know Chris was on last year in his

0:24.5

role as executive chef of Urban Farmer Denver.

0:27.5

He's been a professional chef for 25 plus years.

0:30.8

But now he's pivoted, he's become an equal entrepreneur,

0:33.0

the partner and chief sales officer of Boss Defrost,

0:36.0

which is a really innovative way to save a dramatic,

0:40.0

98.5% of water, a dramatic amount.

0:43.6

So definitely check that out.

0:45.2

But today we are going to be talking about some creative ways to use your garden produce.

0:50.2

You know, I mean, I know that I've definitely gotten burnt out sometimes by growing

0:54.0

salad growing peas growing beans and maybe I don't have enough to work them into a

0:57.5

certain recipe or I don't have the mental capacity to create complex dishes so I think Chris if you could enlighten us I think that

1:06.8

be amazing sure well I mean I think I don't think they always have to be complex

1:11.5

I think that you know some of the notes I wrote down here I mean I can the best

1:15.4

example I have of definitely eating is eating seasonly obviously right you know

1:19.4

when I love growing tomatoes and my wife literally eats Bruecetta every single day while it's in and that's the easiest preparation you could ever have because I think most of the time you know you're talking about things that are in peak season like

1:33.4

that they're just the best right there they're warm from the sun out in the garden

1:38.2

and they're just the best you know I would say challenging yourself to try something new. I think one of the things that I did a while ago which was making a pizza dough can be very easy, right?

1:51.0

So, and so when you make that dough and you have if you have a

1:56.8

stone for your oven the best thing to do because most of time you have a

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