It is so easy to be a locavore in summer – it’s possible to do it almost without having to think about it - and to be almost totally locavore. Vegetable are abundant, fruits are in season.
From the garden I am harvesting the last of the radishes and the peas, the first of the carrots [...]
Comments(0) Most people who grow strawberries - or who pick-them at pick-your-own operations or even frequent Farmers’ market - are familiar with the so-called June strawberries. They bear over a few weeks from mid/late May to mid/late June here in the Northern Piedmont depending on the cultivar. For the kitchen gardener, that’s good only if you [...]
Read More..>>When in season, you eat it – whatever “it” is – until you are almost tired of it, and then you are ready and happy to move on to the next thing that’s fresh and in-season. But that’s assumed you are either growing an awful lot of “it” – or buying and awful lot of [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) I have said my goodbye to fresh sour cherries for this year. I have frozen and made jam with a bucket of them – and of course enjoyed quite a few in cobblers and eaten them “au naturel”. But for the cook with a liking for vermilion sweet/tart fruits, red currants provide even more of [...]
Read More..>>It’s now solar summer, and while the days are just about to start diminishing again - albeit imperceptibly at first, we are getting into the time when we have an profusion of fresh beautiful and wonderfully tasty produce. Production is really stepping up in the garden - even though I did not plant a number [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) Nothing special in the locavore log – same salad style lunch yesterday and home-made pizza (again!) last night. My baker always makes a double batch of dough…
Lunch today was a lot of fun, though. I was holding a workshop “Growing and Cooking with Herbs”. The class started at 10:00 and we spent about 1 ½ [...]
Comments(0) I really thought I was a pretty serious composter. I have two large (at least 5 x 5 x 4) bins going at once, often three – mmmhhh… “piles” would probably be a better word than “bin”, although I do try to corral my compost … some. All kitchen vegetal scraps, garden debris, weeding, grass [...]
Read More..>>Last night dinner was an appetizer of sage leaf tempura (sage from the garden), sautéed golden pork chops (locally raised) with 2 onions (yellow & shallots, not local), and garlicky braised kale (from the garden). Pickled chilies (from last year’s harvest). No dessert.
I buy the pork in bulk from Belle Meade in Sperryville, VA, and [...]
Comments(3) Beverly Hunter was interested in seeing what people ate that was locally grown or raised in or around Rappahannock County, Virginia - as well as bought locally through our small non-chain stores such as Roy’s in Sperryville, E-cow in Amissville, The Corner Store in Sperryville, Food for Thought in Griffinsburg. She inquired on Rappnet, an [...]
Read More..>> Comments(2) I had no idea that Swiss Chard flowers smelled so good.
The flowers themselves are small and inconspicuous - albeit on top of rather incongruously awkward stems that flop onto their neighbors - and, unfortunately onto the cowslip primroses. The scent is powdery sweet, not cloying. How I got to revel in the scent of Swiss [...]
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