Posts from ‘March, 2010’

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal, being the last meal of the challenge, was for Julia (& Zoe): Boeuf Bourguignon, served over homemade spelt egg noodles with sautéed spinach on the side. Sorry about the picture…we’d already started the meal when I remembered! This is another dish prepared in the cassoulet, beginning on [...]

A New York Times article, Push to Eat Local Food Is Hampered by Shortage, points out the shortage of slaughterhouses (more tastefully described as abattoirs). With the demand for local food and the decline of slaughterhouses (nationally, we had 1,211 in 1992 and 809 in 2008), chefs and foodies are feeling the pain. Brian Moyer, [...]

I was poking around the Web and came upon this gem. Enjoy!

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was a tribute to the unseasonably warm weather: grilled ribeye steak with sauteéd spinach, pan-fried butternut squash, and a salad with crumbled bacon and hard-cooked eggs. Here are my sources: ribeye steak from Greyledge Farm butternut squash from Riverbank Farm spinach from Fort Hill Farm via New [...]

What a beautiful spring day! We’ve been having several of them lately and I’m loving it. Lots of little shoots coming up in the garden, but that will wait for another post. Today’s forage began at Redding Roasters for some peaberry and espresso beans. No, the coffee’s not local, but it is very locally roasted [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was provided nearly entirely by Wild Hive Bakery & Café: Ravioli with a Creme Fraiche sauce. The ravioli were homemade by Wild Hive using: their own spelt flour eggs from their own chickens cheese from Ronny Brook apple from Fishkill Farms parsnips from Four Winds Farm salt [...]

One of the events of Cecelia’s Birthday weekend was the Five S’s of Wine Tasting class at McLaughlin Vineyards. The class, also known as Wine 101, was given by Leo Gulino, The Wine Tutor. The Five S’s are: See Swirl Smell Slurp (S)chew (poetic license) Leo told us about the different regions of the tongue [...]

Redeeming my own birthday gift from Phillis, I drove up to Albany to see my two favorite musicians (one local, one not). About an hour into the drive, I came upon the adorable hamlet of Clinton Corners, NY. Despite the regional transformation from agricultural to residential, the area still has an agricultural bent to it. [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was just a beverage. Just. As if… My Taza locavore chocolate arrived. I call it locavore chocolate because I can know exactly where it came from. So, first, I went to tazachocolate.com to look up my batch number, #230. Here’s what I learned about my chocolate: Batch [...]

I recently came across this disturbing article in the New York Times. Sometime after finishing the morning milking, Mr. Pierson, 59, a dairy farmer who grew up on High Low Farm on Weed Mine Road in Columbia County [NY], which his father bought when he was an infant, did something no one will ever entirely [...]