Part of eating locally is re-examining the processed products you usually buy at the grocery store. We started by reading labels and trying to pick the container with the fewest “scary” ingredients. From there, we realized that the stuff we were buying didn’t have that many ingredients anyway and could probably just be made at home. This led to making yogurt and granola, among other things. All this is to tell you that seemingly crazy . . . → Read More: How to Make Evaporated Milk
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It’s Greenmarket Grains Week! We are so fortunate to live in an area where we can get a wide variety of local grains and flours. We rarely buy this stuff at the store anymore, but if we do, we stick to the bulk section and King Arthur Flour (relatively local and employee-owned). This salad will make you love grains and dark, leafy greens. I wish I were eating it right now for breakfast. . . . → Read More: Versatile Grain and Veggie Salad Recipe  One comment - (Comments are closed)  Salads, Waste Not, Want Not  barley, collard greens, dark leafy greens, farro, grains, kale, leftovers, local food, mustard greens, rice, Root Vegetables, sunchokes, swiss chard, wheatberries Sunchokes are our new obsession. They’re sweet and crispy raw and roast up nicely. Erik eats one or two almost every day in his lunchtime salad. Background: Sunchokes, a.k.a. Jerusalem artichokes, are the roots of a species of sunflower. They were discovered by the western world in 1605 by Samuel Champlain, a French explorer, who initially compared the taste to an artichoke. I’m not sure why though…I don’t taste it. The “Jerusalem” piece of . . . → Read More: Produce Profile: Sunchokes Today was an early day at the Union Square Greenmarket. Lindsay had an event for work, so I was shopping alone today. On my first pass through for browsing I got a few pictures, but once I started buying my hands were too full to take any more! Red carrots Rainbow beets Fresh horseradish Mixed color fingerling roasting potatoes For Andy from The Office: Broccoli Raab Green beans, still . . . → Read More: Market Day! With so many great-looking apples at the market this weekend, my mind has gone totally apple-centric. I can’t stop thinking about all the great apple desserts – pie, crisp, crunch, cobbler, turnovers…mmmmm. To keep myself from gaining 30 pounds on an all apple and butter diet, I decided to make apple butter this weekend. Hopefully it will help me hold off until Thanksgiving. Applesauce is shockingly easy to make. Some of our local orchards . . . → Read More: How to Make Applesauce and Apple Butter One comment - (Comments are closed) Techniques, Why Buy? D-I-Y! apples, how to, local food, Why Buy? D-I-Y! |
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