Posts from ‘October, 2007’

Laura at Urban Hennery posed a Dark Days Eat Local Challenge. She’s posted her personal rules and encourages others to make their own. I’m in! I’m thinking that if I can’t get to 90%, I can at least have one local ingredient per meal. Does that sounds too easy? Wow- what progress! Three months ago, [...]

To save my precious applesauce, pureed pumpkins, pumpkin soup, and various other locally produced and personally processed items, I purchased a FoodSaver home vacuum-packaging system. It sucks out the air and seals the bag. I have beautiful blocks of frozen fare in my freezer!

I finally tried raw milk. I read a few articles, like How Raw Milk Got a Bad Rap, The Raw Deal (Washington Post) and What is Real Milk? According to this last reference: Pasteurization destroys enzymes, diminishes vitamin content, denatures fragile milk proteins, destroys vitamins C, B12 and B6, kills beneficial bacteria, promotes pathogens and [...]

I know I said I wasn’t going to be “puttting by” foods; that I wanted to get my foods already prepared, just local, sustainable, and as organic as possible. So much for what I said. I live in Connecticut and I come from New York. We make the best apples in the world in this [...]

Connecticut is known as the nutmeg state, but don’t waste your time trying to find locally-grown nutmeg. According to Chef Sanjeev Kapoor, from the Know Your Ingredient section of his Web site: The nutmeg tree requires a hot, moist climate and well-drained soil with partial shade. With a history rooted deep into the distant past, [...]

We hit the road again this Saturday, concentrating on the Bethel area. I must admit, hunting for and gathering our weekly food in this manner beats the heck out of grocery shopping in the supermarket. Our first stop was Bethel Farmer’s market. The farmers are thinning out, but Don Taylor is still there and so [...]

According to the 100 Mile Diet Web site, “a typical ingredient in a modern meal has traveled 1500 miles or more from farm to plate.” The popular standard for local eating is anything from within a 100-mile radius. The 100 Mile Diet site includes a widget where you can enter your zip code to display [...]

We’re getting our Saturday Adventures down to a routine: at least one farmer’s market, one actual farm, and one whole/local foods retail store. It’s a lovely way to explore the area, especially this time of year. We remembered to bring a cooler this time. Our journey began at the Brewster Farmer’s Market, located at Peaceable [...]