Posts from ‘July, 2009’

This post is so late that I will be truly surprised if it makes it into the weekly round-up at Farm to Philly. I will also be forever indebted to my regional coordinator. (Wanna come to dinner?)
This week’s One Local Summer Challenge meal celebrates the grill: grilled sausage, portobello and kohlrabi slices.

grilled sweet Itailian sausage, [...]

I harvested my garlic last weekend. I wasn’t sure it was done, but other people in my zone were harvesting theirs, the stalks were starting to brown, and it seemed like the thing to do.
This was my entire yield:

Cute little things.
For comparison, these big ones are from Missy’s:

Missy’s mom is a real farmer. But don’t [...]

Ooops…due to some technical snafu, commenting ability on this blog has been disabled for a couple of weeks. I apologize to anyone who had something to say and left here with it unsaid. I believe I have corrected the problem.

This week’s One Local Summer Challenge meal is oven-roasted chicken and pink potatoes. Sorry I’m posting way past the deadline–hope you forgive me and I make it! It was a very tasty meal nonetheless.

chicken from Stuarts Family Farm
chicken broth, mine from the freezer from last week
white wine is Snow Goose from McLaughlin Vineyards
shallots from Don [...]

I confess, this isn’t a serious grow-your-own year at Late Bloomers Farm. I have five to eight oaks in my yard that prevent me from getting the kind of sunlight it takes to grow things. Hence, one half of the Late Bloomers double entendre.
There are a few sunny spots and this is what I have [...]

This week’s One Local Summer Challenge meal is escarole and bean soup.
To make proper escarole and bean soup, you need cannellini beans (also called white kidney beans). You could use Navy beans or some other white bean, but it really isn’t the same.
I’ve been looking to locally source cannelloni beans (or any bean for that [...]

A number of people have told me that they’d buy more greens from the farmers markets, but just don’t know how to prepare them. While there are lots of exceptional recipes out there, I generally default to my default method of cooking greens: sauté garlic in olive oil, add broth or water, add cleaned, cut [...]

This week’s One Local Summer Challenge meal has been a year in the making!
I put by the main ingredients for Eggplant Parmigiana last season, thinking it would make a nice meal over the winter, but the winter came and went.  I finally got around to making it this weekend.

The eggplant was from Waldingfield Farm, dipped [...]

Happy Independence Day! Particularly those exercising their independence from petroleum-based foods–whether from fertilizers, pesticides, shipment, or a combination.
My markets were open today and I scored big!

From the Brewster Farmers Market

Fresh catnip, mixed salad greens, Daikon radishes, and Nero Cavalo from Bluestone Farm. Though I don’t ordinarily go for cold salad, the greens were already bagged [...]

I came across this great video. It’s not in English, but…

You get the picture.