Posts from ‘March, 2009’

This time, Salmonella trainted pistachios from California. How do pistachios get Salmonella?

I am still looking to locally source a number of items I consider staples. These things could grow in my foodshed, but I haven’t been able to find anyone growing them here on my own. If anyone happens to know where I could get these things, please let me know. If I have to, I’m [...]

So, what can you do with a pasta machine and a pizza stone that’s not pasta or pizza? You can make crackers! I used the wisdom of recipes from both of these sites: 101 Cookbooks Wild Yeast I need to go thinner and find a balance for the salt, but other than that-not too shabby. [...]

Must be time for pizza in the loca-sphere! (See here and here.) Factoid: the day of the year with the highest pizza sales is Good Friday. With the Dark Days Eat Local Challenge over, but still a long-held desire to make pizza, I tried it myself. (Pizza-making is part of my family’s past.) This one [...]

The first day of spring was a chilly forty something degrees. This week’s forage began at the Wholesome Wave (Westport Farmers Market) in Fairfield where I scored: a bouquet of kale from Two Guys from Woodbridge pork chops and stew beef from Ox Hollow Farm Veal for scallopini and Pleasant cow cheese from Sankow’s Beaver [...]

I’ve had a week now to think about the 60 Minutes segment on Alice Waters. I should have been the perfect audience for this segment, yet felt distinctly dissatisfied after it aired. In this segment, Leslie Stahl presented the slow food movement as elitist. Because as we all know, cooking from scratch, buying from local [...]

Saturday’s forage included yet another out-of-town guest, this one from Vermont, where they take local fooding seriously. Really seriously. (Google Vermont food sovereignty and peruse the articles to get the full sense of it!) We began at the Wholesome Wave (Westport Farmers Market) in Fairfield and scored: a bouquet of red leaf lettuce from Two [...]

This is the last week of the Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meals. First, there was beef tenderloin from Stuarts Family Farm and broccoli from Waldingfield Farm (courtesy of the freezer). Then there were ribeyes from Stuarts Family Farm, with potatoes from Riverbank Farm and sauteéd fresh spinach from Starlite Farm. But the best was [...]

This week, I went to the CitySeed Farmers Market at Wooster Square in New Haven. It’s an outdoor market and I haven’t been there since the winter market began. But with the temperature in the 60s and plans to meet up with Mangochild, there I was! I scored: raw milk from Sankow’s Beaver Brook yogurt [...]

This week, I had a few Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meals. Could be the warm weather, could be the mad rush to cook as many local meals as possible before the challenge ends. Or it could simply be that I didn’t have as many evening meetings or dinners out last week! One meal was [...]