The August Locavore, ’11

What’s up in August? Weekend Locavore Way Workshop — August 26-28. I’m teaching a Kripalu Retreat weekend workshop in Lenox Massachusetts in the Berkshires. Cooking lessons, farm visit, tastings and more. Feel free to contact me if you have questions or call Kripalu at 1-800-741-7353 Talk and Book Signing — August 31, 7 pm, Worthington, […]

Best Corn on the Cob

(Photo by Caroline Alexander of Berkshire Food Journal) Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn. — Garrison Keillor Finally, local corn has arrived. The season’s painfully short, so be sure to eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner, so it’s firmly planted in your taste memory until next year. I like […]

Rawson Brook Farm’s Chocolate Chevre Truffles

Below the Recipe This Weekend Join me! Spring Tonic at the Lenox Library Project Native Film Festival in Great Barrington More Recipes with Goat Cheese Feeding the World without Destroying it Susan Sellew of Rawson Brook Farm with her baby goats. (Photo from Berkshire Food Journal) The Recipe Early spring. This is the first time […]

Warm Pudding

Local Food News Below It’s Maple Month! Recipes Using Maple Syrup An Oral History of Girlhood and a New England Farm More about Maple Syrup My niece Sadie, third generation pudding lover, who knows to keep blowing and eat it warm!  (See her savor it below.) The Recipe I come by pudding adoration naturally. It’s […]

Best Baby Taters

Food News Below More about Potatoes Ted Dobson of Equinox Farm Talks about Farming Berkshire Kripalu Community Talk and Book Signing “Changing the Way We Eat”big TED event now online American Farmland Trust’s Planning Agriculture Guide The recipe Cute is not my thing. I ripped the bows off my party dresses as a kid, and […]

Pickled Onions

Valentine’s Day Locavore Cooking Class New Facebook Farmers Market Grassfed Beef Conference This Week (See below for details) Imagine life without onions, so essential to the Indian diet that there were riots when their price spiked. Here they’re a winter staple for their price, flavor and longevity. Pretty in pink, pickled onions are divine in […]

Winter Root Soup

I assembled this soup with the winter roots on hand, while snow dressed the trees outside my kitchen window — a warm hug in a white world. Serves 8 1 or 2 potatoes, preferably waxy (1-1/2 cups diced) 1 celery root, about 1 pound (1-1/2 cups diced) 2 parsnips (1 cup diced) 5 garlic cloves […]

Winter Salad with Spinach,Beets,Shiitakes and Goat Cheese

It didn’t feel like the dormant season when I drizzled balsamic syrup over local baby greenhouse spinach from The Berry Patch, wilted in garlic oil, with storage beets from Farm at Miller’s Crossing, roasted up until tender, then topped it all with winter market shiitake mushrooms and Rawson Brook Farm goat cheese. Make ahead tip […]

Potato-Celery Root Ravioli with Parsley Pesto

The world-on-a-plate food can easily go awry in the wrong hands. But this fusion dish works fabulously even though it combines the classic potato and celery root duo in a Italian ravioli using Asian wonton skins. Go figure. Serves about 6 Tip If you make this Smashed Potatoes and Celery Root recipe, you can use […]

Simple Celery Root Salad

Boxes of local celery root and potatoes. I gathered up 4 households to split cases. What’s new? I’m gabbing on the Berkshire Food Journal Winter farmers market Visit  me at the Williamstown Holiday Farmers Market to say hello, pick up fabulous farm fresh food and locally crafted gifts, along with a signed copy of The […]