Editor’s Note: Swapper and FSC Academy teacher, Leah, has given us Swap Fever w/ her swap loot recipes of Spiced Nuts, Magic Shell and now for our {drink week}, she gives us Cucumber-Infused Sake. I can tell you from personal experience that the June swap was alive with cucumber sake. Everyone wanted it. So much…
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{drink week} Fun with Limes
Editor’s Note: Before I begin I need to get something off my chest: can you believe its the first day of August 2012 already? Wow. Okay, I’m back & focused. To continue our drink week, we have a brand-spanking-new Guest Contributor, Wendy of the Wendalicious blog and from the Board of the Schenectady Greenmarket (and…
{drink week} Melon Daquiri
Editor’s Note: What relaxes and recharges us from a long hot summer day, and keeps things interesting in the kitchen when you don’t want to turn on the oven, than drinks made with melon, plums, watermelon and the other in-season fruits, herbs and vegetables the Northeast harvest bounty can offer? Get out your blender, cocktail…
{community voices} Homemade Veggie Bouillion
Editor’s Note: FSC Community Voices Contributor, Gina M, a local blogger at ModSchooler and a guest contributor at Albany Kid, is back with another doozie of a post: Homemade Veggie Bouillion. Its getting food preservation serious up in here! Her first post, No-Fuss Slow Cooker Beans is also terrific, perfect for the summertime no-heat kitchen!…
{recipes} Zucchini Four Ways
Zucchini season is upon us – I’ve been harvesting them daily in my garden. Why I always plant so many when I know that the harvest is predictably plentiful is beyond me. You’ve heard the jokes about the people who sneak around their friend’s houses, leaving zucchinis on their doorsteps when no one is looking? That may…
{recipe} More Cool Food for Hot Nights
So, here it is, hot again. Too hot to turn on the oven, or even to spend any real time in the kitchen. Below are recipes for two pasta-based salads that can serve as an entree or a side dish. The pasta or noodles can be cooked ahead of time (maybe in the morning when…
{drink it up} Watermelon Julep
There are two things that we do well here in Upstate New York come summer: Eating watermelon and racing horses. From late July to Labor Day, the population of one of our beloved towns swells to accommodate horse racing aficionados from around the world. And of course, you can’t watch a good running of the…
{recipe} Chilled Mango Salsa
Summer days ahead call for refreshing food with no heat necessary to prepare them. I picked up 3 perfectly ripe mangos this weekend. 1 mango for snacking and two to use in whipping up this delicious recipe. RECIPE: CHILLED MANGO SALSA INGREDIENTS 2 large mangos, diced ½ cup blueberries 1 cucumber, diced ¼ cup onion,…
{food policy} Sustainable Sea Food
A few years ago I went to Rockport, Massachusetts with some women friends for a get-away-from-your-regular-life-for-50-hours-at-the-beach vacationette. The four of us drove in one car, stayed in a cheapish funky place right on the beach and had a wonderful time. We went out to restaurants for every single meal, drank cocktails and went for long…
{backyard-to-kitchen-poultry} Spatchcock Chicken
As you might already know, we raise backyard chickens in order to have fresh eggs and because, quite frankly, I enjoy having chickens in the yard. Its also old news that most of the poultry we consume comes from birds we’ve raised ourselves, including chickens, turkeys and surplus roosters which are quite tasty when made…
{recipe} Urban U-Pick Sour Cherry Sorbet
I had the amazing opportunity to pick sour cherries last week at Liz’s {FSC contributor} childhood house. Her parents have a large sour cherry tree, full to the brim with red cherries that are just waiting for eager hands to pluck them down. My kids and I met up with Liz on Thursday, then picked…
{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…
{Juicing Journey} For Health & Beauty
A few weeks ago my husband Jeff and I felt like enjoying lazy time on the couch watching a movie, so we took a chance on Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. It was recommended by a friend who loves food as much as we do. The film follows the journey of a guy named Joe…
{recipe} Chicken Salad: Cool Food for Hot Nights
Sunlit, muggy evenings late in June are the time to introduce chilled foods for dinner. Some of my favorites are green beans, plain potatoes and soba noodles, all delicious when eaten straight out of the refrigerator. Cold artichokes and roasted vegetables are good too. On days when you can’t bare to turn on the stove…
{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…
