Local Gourmands
Growing up on the coast of Maine, my parents couldn’t understand why I resisted bites from their treasured baskets of fried clams. I don’t think I liked eating something unrecognizable, or maybe it was that they were too chewy– I much preferred stealing the cup of tarter sauce that accompanied each basket and dipping my French fries in it instead. Maybe I just didn’t like the clams because I was …
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Finger On the Pulse hosts their season opener at Good Company tonight with guest chefs from Roberta’s turning out locally inspired $5 plates of food and tunes by Modular Records. Come through Good Company at 10 Hope St. in Williamsburg tonight any time from 7-11pm to get a flavor of Summer 2010.
Click here to see a slide show from our visit to Ten Apple Farm.
Goats have been coming up a lot in conversation lately: there was the fantastic wedge of buttery cambra we devoured out on the patio at Spuyten Duyvil on Saturday afternoon, the baby goats my farmer friend Annie has adopted to eat up the mugwort in her Greenpoint yard, and roasted goat meat was the feature at June’s …
6 lbs russet or California long white potatoes
2 c cider vinegar
4 bay leaves
10 peppercorns
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tsp. salt
3 sweet onions (or I used scallions)
4 tender inside stalks of celery
3 large sour pickles (or relish)
chopped parsley and dill
4 large hardboiled eggs
mayo
salt and pepper to taste
Boil the potatoes until just tender and let cool. Peel and cut into thumb joint sized pieces. Boil the vinegar/seasoning mixture for 10 minutes in a …
Brooklyn’s own Annie Hauk-Lawson, nutrition professor and co-author of Gastropolis is giving a compost demo today. If you’ve got questions about how to make the most of your food waste, this is the workshop to teach you how to turn it into black gold.
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