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Yogurt / Butter / Cheese making classes!
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What's fer dinner? 3 September 2008
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Recipe: Grandma Bel's Italian Zucchini
Grandma Belcastro cooked up this delicous dish for family. You can make it as a delicious localvore side dish.
* 1 or 2 zucchinis, preferably small, sliced into 1 inch pieces ( Dutchess Farm)
* Marinara Sauce from Gordon's Pond (Shrewsbury)
* 1 raw egg
* Grated Cheese
* Salt and Pepper to taste
Steam or boil the zuchinin until tender. Do not overcook as they will fall apart. Put them in a pan with the marinara sauce and heat. Drop a raw egg into the m
… ContinueAdded by Michael OBrien on July 4, 2007 at 8:25pm — 1 Comment
Good food, good feedback
Those of you who haven’t called, written or stopped me or my staff on the street to talk about this project should step right up. Both of you; everybody else has.
The response to this column from readers has been amazing. When Carol Tashie first suggested I try the Localvore Challenge, I wanted to get readers involved, somehow. But coordinating a group — starting with finding willing
… ContinueAdded by Randal Smathers on June 30, 2007 at 7:30am — 2 Comments
Good food takes time ...
It’s time to talk about time.
First, the good news: My family is happy that I am coming home every night to eat dinner instead of reheating what’s in the fridge at midnight or getting take-out to eat at my desk. And I’m happy to have an excuse to get out of the office for an hour in the evening.
Now the bad news: This experiment has about doubled the time and effort my wife puts into preparing food. Think about… Continue
Added by Randal Smathers on June 29, 2007 at 10:27pm — 2 Comments
Sticker shock
Guilty as charged.
Unfortunately, it's the easiest thing in the world to feed your family on junk food, fast food, over-processed food and what "Married with Children" once called "near-food products." Go into your local convenience store and think about that statement. Sadly, Skittles are not a fruit.
Local food… Continue
Added by Randal Smathers on June 28, 2007 at 9:50pm — No Comments
Gut check
Unlike some other brands of “Vermont” salsa, Raymond’s product is almost all-local, from the tomatoes through the chilies. He makes it in his garage — his next-door neighbor, fortunately, loves the smell — in the Rutland neighborhood whose nickname graces his product.
There are times in the dark of winter when he can’t buy local vegetable… Continue
Added by Randal Smathers on June 27, 2007 at 9:30pm — No Comments
A lawn, strange trip
Today is the first day of actually embarking on the Localvore Challenge after a couple of weeks of thinking about it and a weekend of hunting up foodstuffs that have traveled less than 100 miles to our table.
I'm eating lunch at my desk as I write this, and the Cabot-cheddar-on-homemade-bread sandwich is delicious. The salad greens are another story. The greens themselves - some from the farmers market, some from neighbors' garden… Continue
Added by Randal Smathers on June 26, 2007 at 9:30pm — No Comments
Foraging vs. shopping
See if this is how you shop for your family: You write out an enormous list of everything you need for a week or so, clip some coupons from the flier in the Sunday paper, and decide on which supermarket to shop in based on a combination of the week's specials, how full the parking lot usually is and a semiconscious memory of how long the checkout li… Continue
Added by Randal Smathers on June 25, 2007 at 9:30pm — No Comments
Why try localvore?
Different people try eating locally for a variety of reasons. Some come to it because they feel strongly that we should not be shipping food thousands of miles, especially when we live in such plenty in Vermont.
Others are practicing for what they see as the coming oil crash, when the cost of shipping will become prohibitively expensive, or because they just believe in sustainable living.
Still others, myself included, believe first in supporting the local economy. My family
Added by Randal Smathers on June 23, 2007 at 9:30pm — No Comments
The challenge
The challenges typically take place once in each season. My wife and I have been talking on and off about trying to do a challenge since we heard about it in the spring, but the idea of trying to eat only local food in March without having spent the fall putting stuff in the freezer seemed too daunting, so we're tak… Continue
Added by Randal Smathers on June 22, 2007 at 9:30pm — No Comments
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