Editor’s Note: Swapper Natalie & her friend, Swapper Lindsay, have rocked the Saratoga Food Swap since they began attending a few months back. They are serious regulars now and I’m always delighted to see them (and what they bring to swap) each month! They tend to be very creative with glorious packaging and display wow….
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{SWAP RECAP & TICKETS} my first swap
Editor’s Note: It’s that time of the month- food swap recap & ticket information! This month’s “recap” was written by Swapper Elizabeth Ann and it was originally published on September 19, 2011 on her personal blog, Elizabeth Likes… As always, ticket information is all the way on the bottom. That said, here’s the bad news:…
{recipe link love} Cookies Cookies Cookies!
{Albany Food Swap: Lavender cookies by Swapper Nicole} To celebrate our December Food Swaps, which will be traditional cookie & recipe swaps, I am doing a little recipe link love to some absolutely fabulous cookie recipes I’m seeing all over the interwebs these days! +++ First up, Our friend Kate Payne has a Gluten-Free Sugar…
{FSC SWAPPERS} food swappery w/ cookie dough hummus
Editor’s Note: In October, we had ‘newbie’ Swapper Jess share with us a play-by-play of her first FSC Food Swap. In November, we had Leah & her case of the ‘swap fever’. This month, we have ‘veteran’ Swapper Corrie, of the blog, Corrina, Darling!, with not only a peek inside a food swap for the…
{FSC Swappers} Swap Fever
Editor’s Note: Last month’s swap recap by Swapper Jess started an exciting trend. Food Swap recaps by the swappers themselves! What a hit! Homerun! Goal! Score! This month is no exception with Swapper Leah’s take on food swaps. She is a long-time Albany Swapper who is gonna walk you through her progression of “Swap Fever”…
{Swap Time} October Here We Come!
Editor’s Note: We thought it would be fun that for future swap {recaps} we will rely on YOU, the swappers out there who make these two swaps a month so inspiring, creative and fun! First up, Saratoga Swapper Jess from the blog, Wanderlusted. She attended her first swap this past September at our Saratoga Springs…
{SPECIAL EVENT} FSC at HWFC’s Harvest Fest
We are excited to announce that we are a “vendor” at the 2011 Honest Weight Food Coop Harvest Fest. Our booth will be jumping all day long with informative demonstrations, samples with the day ending with a MINI FOOD SWAP!!!! As of this evening (Friday night at 9:26pm) it looks like it might be sunny…
{fsc swappers} Swap Time is Here Again!
{photo booth style photos by Christine at the Albany Swap. amazing right?} We (Britin & Nick) at All Good Bakers hosted the second Albany From Scratch Club food swap Sunday, August 21. Our tiny bakery was filled to capacity with an enthusiastic crowd loaded with homemade treasures, and something magical took place. Before Kate Payne…
{FSC SWAPPERS} Swap Time is Here Again.
Before I announce that the free ticket “sales” are live (Hint Hint: Albany Swappers go here and Saratoga Swappers go here) I need to recap July’s swaps. Yep. I said swapssss because we began the FSC Swappers:ALB food swap on Sunday, July 17th at All Good Bakers on Quail Street in Albany, NY. Let me…
{weekend reading} Food Swap Edition
Its back. Sorta. The popular weekly food policy, news and recipe-link-love post, {weekend reading} national edition is back. Dipping-my-toe-in-back. Its not gonna be the novelette it was pre-farm job, for now, but it is back. Yay! I’m doing something different for my first Sunday back in the saddle. Since today is the first food swap…
{garlic scape week} Infused Olive Oil!
The final product of this project was, to me, reminiscent of jars of formaldehyde, filled with dead snakes and sitting on the shelf of a biology classroom. Now that I’ve whetted your appetite, let me lure you further by emphasizing the ease of creating garlic scape olive oil. I got the idea from a Martha…
{garlic scape week} pesto!
by Christine I had never cooked with, and perhaps never tasted, a garlic scape before I joined a CSA this year. At the last FSC Food Swap, a genius swapper had made garlic scape pesto to share. And then my CSA email had suggestions for garlic scape pesto. And then I got garlic scapes in…
{FSC SWAPPERS} A Community Has Sprouted.
{swap loot} Have you been to a swap yet? If not, find a swap in your area and sign-up because you are missing out on, yes the food, but more importantly the blossoming of community that’s being fostered. Of course, if you’re competitive like me, you’ll want to go for the rush of excitement when…
{recap} FSC SWAPPERS 1st Food Swap
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…
{Introducing} FSC SWAPPERS
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,…
