Below the Recipe This Weekend Join me! Spring Tonic at the Lenox Library Project Native Film Festival in Great Barrington More Recipes with Goat Cheese Feeding the World without Destroying it Susan Sellew of Rawson Brook Farm with her baby goats. (Photo from Berkshire Food Journal) The Recipe Early spring. This is the first time […]
Local Food News Below It’s Maple Month! Recipes Using Maple Syrup An Oral History of Girlhood and a New England Farm More about Maple Syrup My niece Sadie, third generation pudding lover, who knows to keep blowing and eat it warm! (See her savor it below.) The Recipe I come by pudding adoration naturally. It’s […]
Food News Below More about Potatoes Ted Dobson of Equinox Farm Talks about Farming Berkshire Kripalu Community Talk and Book Signing “Changing the Way We Eat”big TED event now online American Farmland Trust’s Planning Agriculture Guide The recipe Cute is not my thing. I ripped the bows off my party dresses as a kid, and […]
Valentine’s Day Locavore Cooking Class New Facebook Farmers Market Grassfed Beef Conference This Week (See below for details) Imagine life without onions, so essential to the Indian diet that there were riots when their price spiked. Here they’re a winter staple for their price, flavor and longevity. Pretty in pink, pickled onions are divine in […]
Heaven’s when diner food meets local eggs, roots and bacon. This local food combo was born of culinary desperation and cabin fever. After two days trapped in the house by ice and snow, I scavenged for supplies. Luckily I had some of my winter CSA* farm share was left. The hash of roots topped with poached eggs […]
It didn’t feel like the dormant season when I drizzled balsamic syrup over local baby greenhouse spinach from The Berry Patch, wilted in garlic oil, with storage beets from Farm at Miller’s Crossing, roasted up until tender, then topped it all with winter market shiitake mushrooms and Rawson Brook Farm goat cheese. Make ahead tip […]
The world-on-a-plate food can easily go awry in the wrong hands. But this fusion dish works fabulously even though it combines the classic potato and celery root duo in a Italian ravioli using Asian wonton skins. Go figure. Serves about 6 Tip If you make this Smashed Potatoes and Celery Root recipe, you can use […]
Boxes of local celery root and potatoes. I gathered up 4 households to split cases. What’s new? I’m gabbing on the Berkshire Food Journal Winter farmers market Visit me at the Williamstown Holiday Farmers Market to say hello, pick up fabulous farm fresh food and locally crafted gifts, along with a signed copy of The […]
Mixed braising greens from Markcristo Farm in Hillsdale, NY. Wok-braised greens using the alternative light braise in step # 2. (I added freshly grated ginger and stock.) Wokked or Braised Greens from The Locavore Way CSA farmers frequently tell me that the question most asked by members is, “What do I do with cooking greens?” […]
No excuses! Burgeoning Winter and Holiday Farmers Markets make it convenient for you to include fabulous farm fresh foods in your winter feasts, starting with Thanksgiving. See below: To find a market near you and for this weekend’s Berkshire Holiday Markets. Lots of Locavore Thankgiving Recipes Legislative Action alert:Save small farm production now! I’m a […]
USDA approved school-tested local food recipes and a supplement for educators.
