Posts under ‘farmer’s markets’

If the Thanksgiving holiday had a Black Friday, it would be this Saturday, this being the last weekend of farmers markets before the big feast. Except farmers and farmers market shoppers aren’t quite like mall shoppers. Thank goodness for small favors. I began the day with the Wooster Square market in New Haven. It’s a [...]

I know that the  One Local Summer Challenge is officially over, but I made this soup this week and thought it would be a better ending to OLS 2009. The soup is Potage Parmentier (potato and leek soup) and the recipe is from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. leeks from Cherry Grove, [...]

I’m off from the day job this week and have had an opportunity to frequent some of the Farmers Markets I’d ordinarily miss. Tuesday’s Sandy Hook Organic market is still going strong. My favorite farms are still there: Waldingfield Farm, Shortts Farm, Middle Brook Farm, and Stoneledge among others. They are back at the location [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There were a number of meals this week that could qualify for the local meal of the week. This is a wonderful time of the year, with so many markets open. How about yesterday’s meal? After a day of foraging, we had: wine from McLaughlin’s and Womanchego cheese from Cato Corner Farm, in Colchester, CT [...]

This Saturday, I brought my childhood best friend and my sister with me as I traveled from farmer’s market to farm, hunting and gathering my food for the week. We began at the Bethel Farmers Market. We went on to the Brewster Farmers Market. Among other things, I scored catnip from the sisters and escarole [...]

This week’s forage began at Holbrook Farm where I scored: organic mustard greens organic collard greens strawberries (from Pell Farms in Somers, CT) organic asparagus organic beets (with the greens) a fresh chicken (with everything on it) from “a farm” in Roxbury, CT Among other things, they also have garlic scapes this week. I’m waiting [...]

Today’s forage was simply the Wholesome Wave winter market in Fairfield. I’d already stopped by Silverman’s Farm for apples and cider earlier in the week. By the way, Silverman’s is out of their own Cortlands are providing them from a farm in Wallingford. I scored: Yogurt from the Smyth Family’s Trinity Farm in Enfield. Since [...]