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On a recent weeknight we made an awesome and very filling dark days meal: homemade egg pasta with tomato sauce. Now, I have to admit that this is not one of the truly inspired “dark days” meals. We did not get all creative with tubers and root vegetables. We did not invent new ways to use beans and lentils. But on the flip side, look: We are very lucky that we can get local . . . → Read More: Dark Days: Pasta Marinara  2 comments - (Comments are closed)  Dark Days, Recipes  Canning, Dark Days Challenge, homemade pasta, local flour, Recipe We rarely eat out, but we ate out well this past weekend! On Saturday night, we had dinner with my Aunt Jean, Uncle Wendell, and cousin Theresa at The Farm on Adderly in Brooklyn. Although we’ve been there before, this is our first time having dinner there, and we were not disappointed. They highlight local ingredients, small farms, and sustainability. The meal’s highlights were: Escarole salad (celery root, candied olives, lemon, olive oil, Parmesan) . . . → Read More: Eating Local at ABC Kitchen 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Restaurants local food, NYC, restaurants, Union Square greenmarket Making crackers is very similar to making pie crust. It’s pretty simple and allows you to use local ingredients and avoid the dreaded high-fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated oil. Yuck! We adapted a recipe from Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It, a great resource for DIY cooking projects. We made some adjustments (as usual) for local ingredients. If you don’t have a food processor, you could use a pastry blender or a couple of . . . → Read More: How to Make Crackers One comment - (Comments are closed) Why Buy? D-I-Y! crackers, how to, local food, Recipe, Why Buy? D-I-Y! Today was a melancholy market day. Because both Christmas and New Year’s Day fall on Saturdays this year, today was the last major Saturday greenmarket at Union Square until the springtime. Every conversation between customer and vendor consisted of some variation of “when are you back?” or “how long will you be gone?” Usually these questions are about the produce. Today, they were about the farmers themselves. Technically, the market is open all year. Many . . . → Read More: Market Day! Just before Thanksgiving, our greenmarket in Union Square was joined by the annual Holiday Market. Years ago, when I first started visiting the Holiday Market, it was just so much junk from China. Over the past few years, though, it has come more and more to share the philosophy of its greenmarket neighbor. Now, most of the offerings are high quality and many of the vendors are local artisans. So, although it has nothing to . . . → Read More: Union Square Holiday Market – One More Week! |
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