FROM SCRATCH CLUB

Paul Tick, Market Manager of the Delmar Farmers Market contacted me about a possible giveaway to celebrate the upcoming opening day of their market, this Saturday June 4th from 9am to 1pm at the Bethlehem Central Middle School, 332 Kenwood Ave. Delmar, NY. I jumped at the chance to do a little something to entice [...]

FARMERS MARKETS SATURDAY Albany Central Avenue Farmers Market, Parking Lot of The Linda, 339 Central Avenue, Sat 10-2pm. Brunwick Farmers’ Market, Town Office Rd & Rt 7, Brunswich,  9-1pm Glens Falls Farmers Market, South Street Community Park, Glens Falls , 8am – Noon Saratoga Farmers Market: High Rock Park Pavilions, High Rock Avenue. 9-1pm Troy [...]

It’s May. Around here, that means it’s time to enjoy warmer spring days, plant the garden and divide perennials, watch baby leaves unfold from the trees, splash in puddles and observe the reawakening of dormant house cats everywhere. For me, May is also a time to enjoy eating hakurei turnips. I first tried hakurei turnips a few years [...]

Our first food swap was Wednesday evening and boy, was it a good time. I was slightly nervous as I’d never been to a throw-down swap before, let alone hosted one. At the Hip Girl’s Book Party I made everyone interested in swapping bring three of something. When it was “swap time” the participating swappers [...]

Editor’s Note: {How You Do It} is back! In general, the blog has been in a state of transformation and this recurring series is no different. When we first brought you this series, fellow local moms were writing guest posts about their kitchens, their traditions, their food. Since then we’ve made all guests regular contributors, [...]

As a resolution or “goal” for this year, I had aspired to reduce the amount of meat that I eat on a regular basis.  In the past couple of months, I have really started holding myself to that goal.  I’ve introduced various new meals to my repertoire.  I’ve begun purchasing tofu on a regular basis [...]

I have always been an utter failure at making pies. They sometimes taste good, but they look awful and are entirely lacking in aesthetic appeal.   I apply uneven pressure on the rolling pin, make badly crimped edges that leak, use too much flour to dust, yadayadayada.  So in my self-loathing, I tend to concentrate on [...]

Here’s reason #2498 why having a blog is awesome. You experiment with new foods. Case in point; Rhubarb. I have had lots of rhubarb strawberry pie but I have never personally made anything with it. N-O-T-H-I-N-G. As of today, I’ve made freezer pureed rhubarb w/ vanilla (for later use with strawberries), Rhubarb, Apple & Ginger [...]

Hoping for a good weather day at the markets tomorrow is an understatement. Its been on & off raining here all week. Rain or shine your local veg/fruit, meat, cheese, milk, plants and value-added producers will be out there with their goodies. Have a great weekend everyone! -Christina SATURDAY Albany Central Avenue Farmers Market, Parking [...]

This week has been a week of scones. I’m not even halfway through it and I’ve had three different types of scones. I won’t even tell you the actual quantity I’ve consumed, because if I did you’d insist on driving me to the gym. On Sunday night I decided that the next morning I would [...]

Inspired by our Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking event… {get ready for some serious swapping!} From the amazing response we received from our Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking by Kate Payne Book Party, Dessert Potluck & Food Swap we threw on April 22nd, we are starting a monthly food swap called FSC Swappers. Ashley G, [...]

Where to begin? The 24 hours that took weeks to plan felt like it was over in 4 hours. (And almost a month to write a recap post Geeeez, sorry about that!) Nom Nom. Chatter Chatter. Hugs. Whoooosh. That’s All Folks… Bye Bye Kate, have a safe flight. {the only picture of Kate & I, [...]

Editor’s Note: You’ve met Erika T, Britin F, and Jillian E. To rap up this “new-contributor-meet-n-greet” is Christine H from Unspeakable Visions. She will be joining us as our token 20-something non-mom foodie (score!) We were dying for a slightly larger spectrum of viewpoints, and Christine’s humor, wit, D.I.Y. knowledge, urban design sense and social [...]

May is planting season in the community share cropping gardens.  We already planted cover crops (more on those in a future post), winter wheat and garlic last fall;  those are all coming in now.  We had a wet, late spring in upstate New York, so didn’t get much going in April. Usually we have peas [...]

FARMERS MARKETS SATURDAY Glens Falls Farmers Market, South Street Community Park, Glens Falls , 8am – Noon Saratoga Farmers Market: High Rock Park Pavilions, High Rock Avenue. 9-1pm Troy Farmers Market: Uncle Sam Atrium, Broadway @ 3rd. 9-1pm Brunwick Farmers’ Market, Town Office Rd & Rt 7, 9-1pm SUNDAY SCHENECTADY’s Greenmarket moves outside tomorrow: outdoors [...]