While we take a blogcation from any new posts this week, I will be manning the FSC Time Machine and giving you a 3-part series, Thanksgiving Inspiration, a recipe link love that will hopefully provide you some last-minute ideas for the big day! -Christina Maple Citrus & Ginger Cranberry Preserves Cornbread Stuffing Dianna’s 1st FSC…
Author: Christina
Finding her true calling, connecting people to their local foodshed, Christina is the Editor & Founder of From Scratch Club. At the homestead, she is the Chef de Cuisine, Master Baker & Head Food Preservationist. Always a supporter of local, sustainable, humane, whole foods and fair labor practices.
{fsc housekeeping} FSC Classes & Events
Before we continue our ‘from scratch holiday’ series, I wanted to update our FSC ACADEMY’s November & December class schedule both at Brookside Museum and at The Arts Center of the Capital Region, plus announce the winner of the latest giveaway and reminder you all of our Special Event Class & our Troy Farmers Market…
{recipe recap} From Scratch Holidays
I know, I know. Halloween was only yesterday. BUT like magazines, we want to be weeks ahead of the game so you have time to prepare, shop for & create dishes for your Thanksgiving meal, appetizers for a your holiday party, and cocktail suggestions for a New Years Celebration. We also strive to provide you…
{giveaway} Holiday Stories From Your Kitchen
The good, the bad, the ugly, the amazing, the laughable. Kitchen highlights, lowlights, disasters and award-winning triumphs. For our December Episode of the FSC Podcast, Christine & I are producing a very special episode, Holiday Stories from your Kitchen, filled with the ups, downs, the sweat, the tears and panic with holiday home cooking. Come…
{giveaway follow-up} Eat Your Books Winner Is…
The winner of the lifetime membership to EYB goes to……. Clare October 7, 2012 at 5:15 am “I have been an Eat Your Books member almost since the beginning and adore it- EYB allows me to recoup the investment I make in cookbooks by ensuring I actually use them. Perhaps my fav thing is that it makes me try…
{recipe recap} S is for Squash
Before we get our Squash-on, I wanted to announce a fun event tonight. During the monthly city-wide event: Troy Night Out, I and many of the FSC Academy teachers will be hanging out in The Art Center of the Capital Region’s kitchen from 5:30-8:30 hosting demos and chatting about our classes we teach at the…
{fsc housekeeping} FSC Academy Holiday-Themed Classes!
First things first. I got a surprise on on Saturday morning when visitor after visitor to the FSC booth at the Troy Farmers Market, explained they visited due to an article in morning’s The Daily Gazette. Whhhaaaaat?! Although I’ve know for quiet awhile the piece was coming out, I didn’t know it would be today. Surprise! So…
{recipe recap} D.I.Y. Halloween Candy
Halloween is right around the corner, why not get creative in the kitchen with your chocolate skills or your sugar skills! The FSC Time Machine starts us out with the Becky Show with all of her fabulous posts from last October from her D.I.Y. Halloween Candy Series, then we move into other sugary items that…
{recipe recap} Apples R Us
This post will *hopefully* be the start of a new bi-weekly or weekly post all about recipes! One that will use the FSC Time Machine to dredge up oldies but goodie seasonal recipes while also scoring the interwebs for some current food-blog-link-love. Its mid-ish October (seriously where is the time going?) and there are apples…
{fsc academy} October Classes at The Arts Center
Sorry for the {housekeeping} post…I seriously have no idea where September went. Below you’ll find the list of our October 2012 Classes At The Arts Center of the Capital Region on River Street in Downtown Troy, NY. You can register for any or all of the classes on their website. You can find ALL of…
{giveaway} Eat Your Books
Sometimes I can’t believe anyone reads FSC, attends our food swaps or takes our classes. In this vast world of information, and a good majority of it about food, I’m still surprised at the loyal FSC Community (thank you!). So when I saw that the new recipe-organizational website, Eat Your Books (EYB), link to Gina’s Dulce…
{food policy} Why Do You Grow Clean Food?
There has been a lot of discussion, and media hype, about the Stanford University School of Medicine Meta Analysis published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on September 4th, on whether organic food is more nutritious than conventionally grown food. (Definition Note: A Meta Analysis focuses on contrasting and combining results from different studies, in the hope of identifying patterns…
{giveaway} Back to School w/ Whole Food Kitchen
Now that the summer is over its time to get our adult education on! I’m excited for fall 2012 as its the first ‘back to school’ time that we are holding FSC Academy classes since we began in June. While those are in person, and only in the Capital Region of NYS, I’ve often thought…
{fsc swappers} Community & Locavorism Collide
As anyone else think that the first twelve days of September have flown by? Good, I’m not alone. Its flown by so fast that I didn’t realize until Monday that our food swaps were around the corner, like two doors away close, as our monthly swaps start on Sunday in Troy and then again on…
{giveaway} FSC Book Club Housekeeping & Recap
Our first-ever virtual FSC Book Club selection wrapped up this summer. Together, we read Tamar Adler’s An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace and worked our way through it chapter by chapter. We met on our online forum on From Scratch Club’s Facebook page and talked about her recipes, her tips for cooking food in…
