Strawberries and scapes, strawberries and scapes… Fresh, abundant, ephemeral. If we eat as much as we can every day, will the pleasure somehow last?
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Posted in Whimsical, tagged garlic scapes on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Garlic Scape Mashed Potatoes
Posted in Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, eat local Vermont, eating locally, garlic mashed potatoes recipe, garlic scapes, locavore, roving locavore, Vermont locavore on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I love garlic mashed potatoes. Possibly even more delicious are mashed potatoes made with garlic scapes. Last night, I boiled about a pound of new red and gold potatoes (skin on). I tossed four curlicues of garlic scapes (1 per person) into the boiling water for a minute, just to soften them up a bit. [...]
Strawberry Festival
Posted in Fruit, Ice Cream, Sweet Things, Trends, Whimsical, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Cedar Circle Farm, eat locally Vermont, locavore, organic strawberries, roving locavore, Vermont locavore, Vermont organic strawberries on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Strawberries were the totems of childhood today, at Cedar Circle Farm’s 7th annual strawberry festival. Of the milling, stooping, picking, licking population, about two-thirds were fewer than four feet tall. Many wore the totem on their shirts, hats, or cheeks. The folks at Cedar Circle make this day as much a celebration of childhood as [...]
turquoise eggs
Posted in Eggs, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, Araucana eggs, eat local Vermont, eating locally, locavore, roving locavore, turquoise eggs, Vermont local food, Vermont locavore, Vermont organic eggs on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On our way home from the strawberry festival, after driving through the little downtown of Norwich in which all was quiet (it’s Sunday) except for Dan & Whit’s general store (“If we don’t have it, you don’t need it.”), we drove up Turnpike Road, kept going until it turned to dirt, and saw a sign: [...]
Peas and Potatoes
Posted in Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, eat locally Vermont, Hurricane Flats Farm, local food, locavore, new potato salad, Norwich farmers' market, organic potatoes, potato recipe, roving locavore, Vermont local food, Vermont locavore, Your Farm Fairlee Vermont on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday morning, Norwich Farmers’ Market. We got there too late for the golden beets: I saw the last bunch go at 10:15. Maybe next week…. But oh, the potatoes and peas! The Fairlee, Vermont farm, coyly called “Your Farm,” had baskets upon baskets of sugar snap peas–the kind you can eat right off the vine, [...]
Scapes are here!
Posted in Vegetables, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, eat locally Vermont, garlic scapes, garlic scapes recipe, local food, roving locavore, soba noodles recipe, Vermont locavore on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gorgeous green curlicues, Watteauesque arabesques… Not to be confused with green garlic (long spring stalks with the bulbs attached) or ramps (wild leeks, whose season is earlier), scapes are the seed pod portion of the garlic plant that must be culled before they harden and pale from green to beige. Snipping them helps the garlic [...]
Let the Otter Creek flow…
Posted in Beer, Cheese, Whimsical, Wine, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, local beer, locavore, locavore beer, Otter Creek Brewery, roving locavore, Vermont beer, Vermont breweries, Vermont local beer, Vermont locavore on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since this is a locavore blog, in some ways, I have to admit, I misrepresent myself. For example: beer versus wine. I’ve written more about beer, and expressed a lot of enthusiasm about local ales, but I’m really much more of a wine drinker. Lately it’s been Spanish reds, and vinho verde. I love the [...]
Firehouse Ale
Posted in Beer, tagged Brattleboro breweries, local beer, locavore, locavore beer, McNeill's Brewery, roving locavore, Vermont beer, Vermont breweries, Vermont local beer, Vermont locavore on June 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I spotted pint bottles of McNeill’s Firehouse ale in the Co-op today, and grabbed one. This ale brings back memories, because it was one of my first draft beers. Definitely the best. The brewery is in my high school hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, where it is served in its own well-resepected run-down-floorboarded pub just off [...]
Burlington’s Bees
Posted in Sweet Things, Whimsical, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat local Vermont, eating locally, local honey, locavore, roving locavore, Vermont honey, Vermont local food, Vermont locavore on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We drove up I89 yesterday to Vermont’s city, Burlington, to have dinner with Peter’s friend, the Irish poet, Greg Delanty, his wife Patti, and their son Dan (who gave Jack his outgrown tractor toys on indefinite loan). It was rainbow weather. The sky had been heavy and dark in Norwich—rain for days, all the Vermonters [...]
Dairy Day
Posted in Cheese, Dairy, Ice Cream, tagged Amy Campion, Amy Campion food, eat locally, eating locally, local ice cream, locavore, roving locavore, Strafford Organic Creamery, Vermont dairies, Vermont ice cream, Vermont locavore on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Vermont is, of course, known for its dairy farms, along with its maple syrup. The two events I went to today, the Norwich Farmers’ Market and the Co-op’s annual Dairy Day, are really celebrations of the richness, variety, and history of Vermont’s dairies, which stretches back to the seventeenth century. While stories of small dairies [...]
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