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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. — Voltaire

Posted on May 4th, 2010

Rhubarb Parfait with Minted Yogurt

Three local ingredients — rhubarb, yogurt and mint — one simple spring lunch.

The longer I cook with fresh local ingredients the less I want to fuss with them. Why mess with a good thing?  But you can certainly play with other seasonings, such as lemon or orange zest, a pinch of allspice [...]

Posted on April 26th, 2010

Fresh Chive Noodles with Early Spring Things

Fresh Chive Noodles with Arugula & Fiddlehead Ferns (More variations below)

On Sunday, my 8-year old niece, Sadie, and I popped over to my neighbor Ruth’s place to visit her parrot and chickens  and pick up a dozen fresh eggs. Black and white with deep red beaks, Ruth’s hens pecked [...]

Posted on April 21st, 2010

Ramp it up!

Ramp Pesto

I bumped into two fellow foragers gathering ramps two miles from my house. Even from my car, I could see the woods were lousy with ramps as well as the red flowers topping endangered trillium. I scissored a large bowlful of ramp leaves, leaving their roots to regenerate next year’s crop, [...]

Posted on April 14th, 2010

Spring Toss

I lived in this old house for many years before I had the sense to look down at the spring behind it and recognize fresh watercress. There it was, looking just like the store-bought stuff, but younger and fresher.

If you live near very fresh running water, likely you’ll find it too. Harvesting [...]

Posted on March 10th, 2010

Play with Your Goat Cheese!

Smooth and milky with a upbeat tang, no wonder fresh goat cheese production and consumption has boomed over the last few decades.

Likely there’s a small regional farm in your neck of the woods, say a 70′s homesteader like Susan Sellew’s Rawson Brook Farm near me, who chose her goats for their good [...]