Posts from ‘December, 2009’

Clean your grill with hamburgers? It looks like you can! I wanted to keep it light today, but there was this article in the NY Times… Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota [Beef Products Inc.] came up with a [...]

I drink raw milk and it fascinates me that there is so much controversy over this liquid that has been in the human diet for thousands of years. I don’t understand why the people who are against it simply don’t drink it and go on about their business. Why are they so hell-bent on trying [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was simple: pan-seared veal sausage and sauteed kale. veal sausage from Sankow’s Beaver Brook kale from Holbrook Farm (the very same kale I swiped out of Lynn Holbrook’s grasp, moments after she picked it!). garlic from Warrups canola oil from out there Simple. Tasty. Healthy. Quick. Local.

I need your help. My friend Cecelia (of CT Wine Trail Passport fame) lives in Bergen County, NJ (not far from Paramus) and is having a hard time finding local food.The irony of New Jersey being the Garden State is not lost on either one of us. Here’s what I could find from the Internet [...]

if that’s the holiday you’re celebrating. Otherwise, Happy/Merry whatever it is! Since Christmas happens at my sister’s house and not mine, it’s not going to be local. It is, however, going to be Italian! On Christmas Eve, we’ll do the traditional seven fish. (I’ll bring Snow Goose from McLaughlin Vineyards.) On Christmas Day we’ll have [...]

Most of my usual haunts are closed for the holidays. Holbrook Farm is closed until the day after Epiphany (1/7/2010). The Fairfield Winter Market is closed until 1/9/2010. The New Haven Wooster Street market is closed until 1/16/2010. Maple Bank Farm is closed for the season. Blue Jay Orchards is closed for the season. Looks [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was Black Bean Chili. Taking a cue from Zoe at Nutmeg Kitchen, I decide to try their chili recipe. I too did it a little differently. I used: 3/4 lb ground beef from Stuarts Family Farm 2 Tbsp peanut oil, from away 1 chopped onions from Shenandoah [...]

This week’s forage was a return to the usual haunts. Beginning at the Fairfield Winter Market, which is still outside due to the roof work on the theater, I scored: more blood red carrots from Starlight Farms LOTS of cheese, veal scallopini and veal sausage, and miatake mushrooms from Sankow’s Beaver Brook. I am so [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was pan-seared scallops with sautéed shiitakes over mizuna greens. The scallops are from Seatuck Fish, in Lon-GUY-land (Long Island, in case you’ve never been there). I pan-seared the scallops using Iron Chef Cat Cora’s amazingly simple recipe and didn’t change a thing. The thyme was mine and [...]

This week’s forage brought me to a new farmers market, the South Salem Winter Market at Gossetts Farm Market. Hat tip to Kaela of Local Kitchen for turning me on to this market. (Y’know, I’m from NY’s Hudson Valley…) I scored: Sea scallops from Rob of Seatuck Fish From Madura Farms, Goshen, NY (thank you [...]