Cooking seasonally and eating well in the Hudson Valley.
From the monthly archives:
Not much progress at the farmer’s market in Lenox this Friday, though there were oodles of plants to buy. I was waiting, though, because I knew I’d find some treasures at the plant sale at this year’s CSA farm, The Farm at Miller’s Crossing, in Hudson. And I did–in particular, some chile plants [...]
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The second bunch of lacinato was begging to be dispatched tonight, so I heated some olive oil, tossed in three cloves of garlic, sliced up, an inch and a half piece of fresh ginger, peeled and cut into matchsticks, and then the kale, sliced into ribbons. I let it sizzle for a minute then [...]
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Dinner party conversation last night was about growing things (the search for a true red geranium) and also about the lack of things grown–the farmer’s market pickings are still slim, as we are barely, barely into spring here in near-New England. I did make it to the Lenox market on Friday, and mostly bought [...]
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I have six heirloom tomato seedlings on my kitchen sill, and six enormous boxes containing these down by the barn. The sages say that Memorial Day is when it’s safe to put those babies in the ground, so we’re close. Meanwhile, my plans for an asparagus patch have been foiled by (yet another) [...]
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A local online paper announced that it’s farmer’s market season, so I have no excuse to postpone reentering this little blog experiment. Never mind that I missed all the markets this weekend, I have bountiful adventures to share nonetheless. As I dig (forgive the pun) further and further into the experience of growing [...]
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