Drama and simplicity: two words that most aptly describe this fun-filled pancake. I started research for this blogpost with the idea of expanding on my previous experiments with popovers. I continue to find popovers easy and delicious, but wanted to learn to make something even easier to make, bigger and easier to clean up after….
{photo diary} The Facebook Giveaway
We have hit a major milestone on our Facebook page- 2,000 & counting likes! This feels to me like a social media victory of sorts! Tiny FSC in Upstate NY has a relative sizeable FB following, which is surprising & humbling. The reason why I care so much about that page is because its 2nd…
{weekend reading} 2012 Hatch Cam Edition
{FOOD NEWS} If you didn’t watch Jillian’s Hatch Cam 2012 it was fascinating watching 15+ eggs turn into fluffy little chicks. You can read the play-by-play here and also learn about the next stage of the chick’s lives in the ‘brooder spa’ here (pictures of the little dudes & dudettes are included in the post!)…
{recipe} Fried Cakes
Many people have a specialty in the kitchen. For some, it’s a killer chocolate cake. Others have a meatloaf recipe that cannot be matched. For Mrs. Stiles, it was fried cakes. What are fried cakes? They are essentially the same thing as Old-Fashioned cake donuts (okay, they are the same thing). Who is Mrs. Stiles?…
{FSC PODCAST} episode 2: all about csa programs
{Christine’s 2011 22-week CSA Share from Kilpatrick Family Farm} This month’s episode is all about CSAs– community supported agriculture! We tell you what CSA is and why it’s awesome for both farmers and consumers. If you’re interested in supporting local farmers and the local food system, this show is for you. Are you still on…
{recipe} Flourless Carrot Cake for Passover
As I said around this time last year, Passover is my favorite holiday. It is like Thanksgiving on steroids; Thanksgiving with four thousand years worth of family recipes and stories and traditions and ritual mandates. It also has challenging food restrictions thrown in. The basic idea behind the food restrictions associated with Passover is that…
{weekend reading} Monday Morning Edition
{FOOD NEWS} Antibiotic Use on Livestock: On Earth reports that THEODORE H. KATZ, federal court judge in the Southern District of New York, ruled Thursday that government regulators (the FDA) must conclude whether feeding antibiotics to healthy livestock — a widespread practice in factory farming designed to promote animal growth and prevent disease — could…
{weekend reading} ‘Their Own Food Network’ Edition
{Christine looking lovely, and me… well, looking drunk & silly} ‘Their Own Food Network’ is the terrific title of an article written by Staff Reporter Leigh Hornbeck for the cover of Thursday’s Food Section in the Albany Times Union, the area’s biggest paper. I can’t tell you how excited & honored we all are the…
{photo diary} Field Trip to All Good Bakers
Well, they did it! Nick & Britin Foster has opened their flagship bakery, breakfast & lunch spot and future location of cooking classes (and more) at 540 Delaware Avenue in Albany, NY. Yes, they had a teeny space on Quail Street but it was just a stepping stone towards finding a bigger & permanent space…
{local author} Elizabeth Barbone’s Easy GF Pizza Crust
In 2009 I was a complete newbie to gluten-free baking. My husband had been following a gluten-free diet for over a year when, out of desperation, we started a gluten-free diet for my toddler. I was completely lost when it came to gluten-free baking so a friend invited me out to a gluten-free baking demo…
{Mexican Cooking} molletes
This post could have also easily been titled: {keeping it all down} Weird things nauseous pregnant people eat, but I thought I’d keep this recipe true to its roots in my repertoire of nostalgic dishes from my time living in Mexico in 2003. But yes, in case you were wondering, I am expecting our third…
{Kitchen Basics 101} from veggie scraps to stock
Making vegetable stock is so easy, yet I’m guessing that not all of you have homemade stock on hand. By the time I remember to make some stock, I only have half an onion or a single celery stalk to work with and something about buying a whole basket of fresh veggies just to boil…
{gluten & dairy free} Soft Double Chocolate Cookies
Warmer days have started to descend on us, here in the Capital Region of NY, and everyone is cheering, hoping Spring is here to stay. The happiest of those in my house are my children. They have been playing outside constantly, soaking up the fresh air and the sunny skies. I wanted an easy, delicious…
{backyard chickens} Incubating & Candling
It’s almost spring, and you know what that means – baby chickens! This year for the first time ever I’m incubating eggs and will watch my own chickens hatch. Today I’ll share segments from my personal blog, The Village Homestead, about how I set up the incubator and sourced my eggs, as well as how…
{the honeybee saga} Let Me Start at the Beginning…
Today I went out to the farm where I will be keeping my bees this year. I went out there to get milk but happened to see the owner working outside so we chatted for a bit. We discussed how as soon as the weather looks like it’s going to stay nice, I’m bringing my…
