Tag Archives: rhubarb

Blazing Hot Spells, CSA Distributions and Possible Hail. Ice Cream.

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

So Laura and I are loosely counting today as the last day of our local food year, it being the first CSA distribution today.  Its a few days off from the exact date of last year, but we are being … Continue reading →

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Food Parade of Our Weekend

Posted on May 9, 2011 by

And what a parade of spring food it is: Saturday morning we headed out to Amherst for another go at their farmer’s market, as well to spend a lovely day in lovely weather in western MA. We ran around a … Continue reading →

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Asparagus already…. thank god!

Posted on May 5, 2011 by

Yesterday I got to do some grocery shopping at Allandale Farm (yes their farmstand has been open since April) because I can technically walk to the farm from my home.  And what lovelies I did find! So I set about … Continue reading →

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Pickled Beets and Strawberry Rhubarb Jam

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

This 4th of July, we spent the afternoon preserving some choice seasonal items with our friend Magda.  We pickled beets using an trusty old recipe from the 1940′s, experimented with rhubarb strawberry jam, froze down more cherries and dried the … Continue reading →

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The Mother Salad

Posted on June 25, 2010 by

Meal salads are a great way to use lots of veggies in one go- especially in early summer when greens are abundant.  This is one of many incarnations of the ‘mother meal salad’ that graces our table from time to … Continue reading →

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