Before we get to the winner… let’s recap some of the inspiring & enthusiastic answers to our giveaway question: What makes you put food in jars? Leah shares: “We’ve been canning (first timers) for a few months now and love it! It’s now one of our passions! Would LOVE to win! “ Arya says: “I…
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.
{photo diary} Our EPIC FiJ Day
First, I want to say this: As Founder & Editor of FSC NO ONE edits my writing but me. Boo Hoo for me. Do I wish this wasn’t so? Will I try to beg a fellow FSC Contributor to edit my stuff? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes indeed. Sometime my brain does weird things, I’m hoping…
{giveaway} Win a Copy of Food In Jars
Eeeeeekkkk! I’m so excited! One week from today, Marisa McClennan, of Food in Jars the BLOG and the BOOK, will be sharing a wonderful day with the From Scratch Club family, either at her Spiced Plum Class or at our Troy Food Swap, where she will give a little ‘author talk’, sign books and hang…
{free download} Upcoming Classes at The Arts Center
After our summer ‘trial-run’, I am thrilled to announce that FSC will be sticking around as TAC’s Culinary Arts Faculty! These classes are intimate, affordable and low-key and at the premiere arts center in our area! We have all had a *blast* teaching our classes, and can’t wait for more eager, curious, food-loving students! Classes…
{local giveaway} Handpies by AGB
GIVEAWAY CLOSED! THE WINNER IS……… Alex, with comment: Not only am I always happy or surprisingly blown away by the delicious food I get from them, but they also have really creative and tasty things on their menu. Plus, just by eating really good food I feel like I’m contributing to the community. The only…
{fsc academy announcement} A New Venue
We are happy to announce that along with The Arts Center, All Good Bakers, The First Unitarian Society of Schenectady, that we have a FSC Academy venue in Saratoga County. The lovely Brookside Museum in my town of Ballston Spa, NY! Brookside Museum is the home of the Saratoga County Historical Society and also has…
{event announcement} Food In Jars Day
…and by Food In Jars, I mean blogger, cookbook author & food preservation instructor Marisa McClennan, her fabulous blog, Food In Jars, and now her first book with the same name: Food In Jars: Preserving in Small Batches Year Round. Yup, its a whole day devoted to Marisa’s fabulousness! August 19th is From Scratch Club’s…
{winning} at the Delmar Farmers Market & on the Blog
Last Saturday turned out to be a hot & humid day with a few breaks of rain, a typical day for the farmers market. Sunny one minute, turns to cloudy with wind, then blazing sun again. Ahh the days of summer.Working at the farmers market circuit for my second summer, you really get a sense…
{FSC SWAPPERS} A Place for Healing
Food is social. Food connects people, strangers, friends, co-workers and family. Everyone eats. Food Swaps are a vehicle to bring all that is food and community into one place. Sometimes I forget that. To be honest, I’ve been starting to take the our food swaps for granted. We hit the year mark back in April…
{giveaway & event} Alana is coming *back* to town!
GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED. THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY. -Christina I’m excited to announce that due to Leah’s smart thinking, Alana Chernila voice of Eating from the Ground Up and author of The Homemade Pantry, is coming back to the area for a book buying-n-signing at the Delmar Farmers Market THIS SATURDAY, JULY 7th, 9-1pm. …
{recipe} Kohlrabi, Apple & Fennel Slaw
So it seems we’re on a mini-salad kick… a few weeks ago it was Radish Slaw, last week it was Breakfast Salad, this week its cold chicken salad from Alexis and now a serious Summer Slaw. Who doesn’t love a good slaw? Some of my favorites around the Interwebs are: Kaela over at Local Kitchen…
{local event} Meet the Meat Farmers
I can’t stress enough how important farm tours are to customer education & enlightenment, customer-to-farmer relations and community ties. To actually see & hear, in detail, up-close, how your food is grown or raised is an empowering experience. You walk away with a better understanding of the farmer & crew’s grueling-never-ending-job in rain, in snow,…
{weekend recipe} Salad For Breakfast
Make this or something like this! Tomorrow morning or Sunday morning! PRONTO! You see its been hotter than the surface of the sun here for the past two days: 100+ and humid. I know I know, its summer get over it! Well, I got over ‘it’ with this salad. Seriously. The salad came together because…
{weekend reading} Pink Lady’s Slipper Edition
{FOOD NEWS & GOOD FOOD BLOG READS} Hunter Angler Gardeners Cook has a pickled carrot recipe that looks lovely! DIY GOODNESS —> Birch Sap for Birch Soda Local Kitchen is kicking butt: Dutch Oven 101, and Rhubarb Persecco Jelly and Preparing for the Preserving Season! Melissa Clark via NYTimes on DIY Mayo: Alioi! LA Weekly…
{In Season} spring greens & things pesto
{Troy Farmers Market, River Street, May 19, 2012} Whether or not you belong to a CSA Program, if you are visiting your local farmers market this weekend or weekday, you will come across an array of spring/early summer greens & things. Spring greens such as chois, arugula, spinach, turnip & radish tops, kale, swiss chard…
