Posts from ‘February, 2011’

I finally found the Fairfield Indoor Winter Farmers Market! (This is the market that used to be at the Fairfield Theatre Company.) This year, it’s at the Greenfield Hill Grange (1873 Hillside Road, Fairfield). The market is open from 10 AM - 1 PM. The joint was jumping and had a nice assortment of items. [...]

Challenge Meal #10 is an ode to the versatile Frittata. Frittata is Italian for omelet. (I found it on Google Translate, so it must be true.) Frittatas are often advertized as a leftover dish, providing a medium for the disparate, small quantities of items in your refrigerator you can’t bring yourself to throw out. The [...]

Laura at Urban Hennery posted that she can’t continue as planned with blogging recaps of the Dark Days Eat Local Challenge. I admire her for even attempting it this year with so much going on in her life at this time. I completely understand that sometimes, something has to give. I mean, look around! While [...]

In rapid succession, the USDA deregulated GMO alfalfa, then a “partial” deregulation of GMO sugar beets, and now it has deregulated a GMO corn, this one specifically engineered to make ethanol. God help us if this corn finds its way into the food supply. In other news, the USDA is cracking down on faux organic [...]

Just because I haven’t posted on the USDA Decision to Fully Deregulate GMO alfalfa, doesn’t mean I don’t have an opinion. Of course, at this point, all the good opinions have already been taken. Here are a few that run the spectrum: Jill Richardson at La Vida Locavore Sima at Sky Dancing Tom Philpott at [...]

Challenge Meal #9 is Beef Bone Soup, in honor of the weather, my penchant for homemade soup, and the way the ingredients from the Saturday market at the Norfield Grange in Weston just fell together. It turns out that stock made from bones is exceptionally nutritious. According to Sally Fallon: Stock contains minerals in a [...]