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Posted on April 14th, 2010
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 31st, 2010
My Grandma Rose didn’t like to cook much, but she made a mean holiday brisket that’s better than it sounds — foil wrapped and braised tender with a package of Lipton’s soup and a diced green pepper. Times have changed and so has my palate, but the principle remains: slow cooked brisket with [...] Posted on March 28th, 2010
What better way to get a sense of a place then through local food, like the fried grasshoppers pictured here? For the Mexican food lover, Oaxaca, the city of 7 moles, is your town. The markets are pure magic, especially for those brave enough to nibble everything. (Sometimes I did, sometimes not.) The [...] Posted on March 18th, 2010
An Oral History West Stockbridge, Massachusetts (Pictures are of downtown West Stockbridge) This conversation that I had with my neighbor Edna Garnet, now deceased, is a reminder that, until recent history, many country folks were nearly self-sufficient. They raised their own food, ate what was in season, storing hearty root vegetables and putting up [...] Posted on March 10th, 2010
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 [...] Posted on February 4th, 2010
Back to basics this week: Two local ingredients in a mug — Warm Highlawn Farm milk with Ioka Valley Farm maple syrup to taste. Very soul satisfying. Plenty of upcoming book events and signings, including one tonight (Friday) at the library in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts at 7 pm. If you come by, be sure [...] Posted on December 18th, 2009
Some of the best recipes are born out of desperation. This is one, created when I had to come up with yet another wrap for my book, Wrap it Up, now out of print. But here it is — a warm wrap reborn with melty local cheese, apples, shallots and regional cranberries. Serve as [...] Posted on December 2nd, 2009
My mother-in-law called my husband half lace-curtain and half shanty Irish. He calls himself neither, but has an Irish passion for cabbage and potatoes, which I have learned to embrace. Right now my house boasts both the giant Chinese cabbage used here and large glass crock with half-fermented multicolored sauerkraut with ginger and anise. [...] Posted on November 22nd, 2009
Sweet potatoes create a smooth orange soup that is quick to prepare. The fire of cayenne pepper cuts their natural sweetness. The first version is inspired by Southern cooking, with its roasted peanut and scallion garnish. The second is seasoned with the Mexican flavors of lime and cilantro. This is a simple recipe, but [...] Posted on November 10th, 2009
(From my new book, coming out in 2 weeks, The Locavore Way) Try a real turkey this holiday, or anytime at all. Farm fresh turkeys are a different bird entirely from the standard factory farmed frozen turkeys, which are raised as quickly as possible in tight living quarters. They’re raised for their white [...] |
Also by Amy CotlerThe Farm to School Cookbook
USDA approved school-tested local food recipes and a supplement for educators. Complete book on-line |
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