I have to apologize for my lack of photos of the amazing food that we ate. I was too entranced to think to take pictures of everything. However, if there were more, you’d probably drool on your computer, and then I’d owe you a new computer. Last week my husband, son, and I were invited…
Tag: food
{FSC PODCAST} episode 03: food entrepreneurs
This month’s podcast highlights a few of the creative, hardworking people who have made food not only their personal passion, but the basis for their professinal lives as well. We’re calling them food entrepreneurs. We spoke with two such food entrepreneurs to learn how they turned their passions for local foods into thriving businesses. A few…
{recipe} Ramp Fried Rice w/ Mostly Vegetables
Ramps entered my consciousness only a couple weeks ago, thanks to fellow blogger and farmers market master Jillian who suggested I pick some up as part of my first CSA share of the year. Since then I have learned to love them. They are kind of a cross between garlic and scallions, although someone told me…
{FSC Book Club} Starts Today!
The FSC Book Club starts today! Click on over to our Facebook page and join in the discussion. Introduce yourself! Today we are discussing the Introduction and Chapters 1-2 of Tamar Adler’s An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy & Grace. We’ll be posting questions and chatting it up all week long, so don’t worry if you have’t quite…
{local link love} Thank You “Smallbany”
I’m not the only one who has been thinking about how our community of Albany, NY, jokingly referred to locally as “Smallbany”, is pretty fantastic. A popular local food-blooger, Leah the Nosher, just wrote a piece for All Over Albany extolling the virtues of the wide net of friends and family that came to her…
{pantry 101} Guide to Using Oil
Much like vinegar, cooking oil is such a broad category it can be hard to know which oil to use. There are so many options to choose from – olive oil alone has seemingly endless varieties. Keeping a well-stocked pantry means including a few different types of oils, but how do you know which oil…
{WNIMKW} Spoon Butta’
Since Christine lobbied & successfully resurrected our ‘What’s New In My Kitchen Wednesdays‘ I’ve known what my next WNIMKW post would be: Spoon Butta’. Spoon butter first made its presences known to me when Swapper Courtney brought her homemade spoon butter (and displayed it w/ an amazing tablescape) to January’s Saratoga Food Swap. What’s kinda sad,…
{diy confessions} Baking Bread
Editor’s Note: I have the unbelievably cool job today of introducing a very special guest contributor, Greg Dahlmann, the Co-Founder & Co-Editor of the Capital Region’s best news website/blog All Over Albany (AoA for short). Greg and his partner-in-crime, Mary, have created a one-stop resource for all things- Capital Region. During a recent business coffee…
{announcing} FSC Book Club
Now that we’ve gathered over 2,000 friends on Facebook, it’s about time to announce our latest and greatest community-building project: the FSC Book Club! I’m sure you have figured out by now that we are book lovers. We read them, write book reports on them, cook from them, give them away as prizes… we love books….
{FSC SWAPPERS} The Homemade Pantry Book Event
{Yours Truly w/ Ms Alana Chernila, The Chef’s Shop, Book Launch, Saturday April 7th} Now that we have found a permanent home for the Troy Food Swap, its time to get serious. Time is precious, so why not have the food swap incorporate events within the food swap event? Am I right? A two’fer, if…
{gluten free / dairy free} S’mores Muffins
As the weather has turned warmer, and more Spring-like, my family has been spending more and more time outdoors. We take walks after dinner, race down the giant slides at the playground, and delight in the smells from our neighbor’s grill. A few evenings we have even smelt wood burning from fire pits and campfires…
{my breakfast obsession} David Eyre’s Pancake
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…
{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…
