10 Reasons to Drink Raw Milk

Great article....check it out on-line at.... http://nourishedkitchen.com/10-reasons-drink-raw-milk/ Purchase raw milk from Galens Homestead Acres, located in Clifton Spring New York!
http://www.galenshomesteadacres.blogspot.com/

Peas!

OK, for all the locavores, there is just no excuse to not eat fresh vegetables! The local stands are full of chard, spinach, asparagus, lettuce, rhubarb and now peas!!

Hunt Country Vineyards

My daughter and I visited Hunt Country Vineyards last week. We had a fantastic time tasting wines and shopping in their gift shop! Everyone at Hunt Country is wonderful to talk to and we were treated to a personal wine tasting with Joyce Hunt! She graciously came over to the tasting room after just giving her Bernese Mountain Dog, Hedy a bath. I was very impressed with several of their wines and purchased many to take home to enjoy for the summer. To visit Hunt Country check out their website at: www.huntwines.com or find them on facebook!

Chipotle

Check out Chipotle's "Food with Integrity" Pledge. Come to the Chipotle Fundraiser Event and support your NY state farmers! Next Tuesday - The new Chipotle on Mount Hope is opening and featuring this special deal! Support your local farmers! For your $5 donation, you'll receive a burrito, chips & salsa or guacamole, and a fountain drink. The first 300 customers in the door will also receive a canvas farmers market bag and organic seed packets!

100% of proceeds will benefit local farms supported by NOFA-NY.

Read more about Chipotle's at http://www.chipotle.com/#/land

Farm To Table -Local Wine and Food Tasting This Friday Night!

Local Wine & Food Tasting
Friday, June 4, 2010
5 pm - 8 pm
New York Chiropractic College
Seneca Falls, NY


Vendors Include: Cayuga Sunrise, Glenora Wine Cellars, Knapp Vineyard, Montezuma Winery, Muranda Cheese Co. Finger Lakes Culinary Bounty, Ventosa Vineyards, Billsboro Winery

This event looks fantastic! Saturday Conference with Speakers and Exhibitors offered as well. See their website: http://www.pathwayswellnessprogram.com/finger_lakes_farm_to_table.html

Radishes

Yesterday I came home with local asparagus, strawberries, radishes, spinach and rhubarb! Made a huge spinach and radish salad for dinner! Was really refreshing! I am not a huge radish fan, but in the salad and fresh they really are great.

Spinach

Spinach has hit the local produce stands! Great steamed or use for fresh spinach salad!

Pasture Butter

Pasture butter is made from the milk of cows that graze on fresh grass in the summer. It's rich in Vitamin E, Beta-carotene, and Selenium. Studies have found it contains more cancer-fighting conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) and a healthier ratio of heart-protective Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids than traditional butter. Check out Galen's Homestead Acres and purchase raw milk to make your own! http://galenshomesteadacres.blogspot.com/

Quotation

"The cheap-food boom has been seductively comfortable for us all. Let's face it: Farming is damn hard work, typically done for damnable pay. By relinquishing this burden, by handing the reins to the corporations, we relieved ourselves of a lot of backaches, sunburns, and financial strains. We struck a deal: The agribusinesses got a guaranteed chunk of our income and our full faith in their ability to keep us sustained. In return, we got to pursue lifestyles that don't resolve around the soil and toil and that allow us a measure of leisure time unprecedented in human history. In early 2009, American television viewing reached an all-time record of a stunning 151 hours per month. That's more than five hours per day, and let's be clear about something: You and I don't get to sprawl across the sofa masticating pork rinds and watching American Idol unless someone else is growing the food." Ben Hewitt, The Town That Food Saved.

Quotation

Ellie gave me a copy of Michael Pollan's latest book, Food Rules An Eater's Manual. It is a small paperback containing 64 'rules' about eating healthy. If you have not read The Omnivore's Dilemma, I suggest reading this book. It is much shorter and will inspire you to think further about what you are putting into your mouth each meal. "Rule 44-Pay more, eat less. Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation." Michael Pollan, Food Rules

Stewed Rhubarb

With so much Rhubarb at the roadside stands I wanted to find a good way to eat more of it without making a pie! This stewed Rhubarb was easy and absolutely delicious. Serve it with ice cream or as we had it tonight, with homemade tapioca cream. Awesome! Try googling rhubarb and learn the many health benefits too :)

Catlin Bulk & Natural Foods

Stopped into the Catlin Food Store today on Route 364, about 2 miles west of Penn Yan. I was very happy to find local potatoes! Sunnyside Potatoes grown and bagged by Tomion Farms, Stanley NY. I am just planting ours, so it will be awhile before we are eating our own. These look great!


Catlin Bulk & Natural Foods, 2901 State Rt 364, Closed Saturdays.

Spring Produce

Good news for all the locavores! The Asparagus and Rhubarb are ready!
I bought both at two Penn Yan roadside stands today! Cream of Asparagus
Soup for dinner....

Trout for dinner

Yesterday's dinner was a real treat! Trout given to us by a good friend from the Cuba NY area and prepared by our son John! It was superb! The trout were really fresh tasting which I attribute not just to the chef, but also the way they were frozen. All of the trout were put into a bag of water and froze solid. It does take a day ahead in the fridge to thaw out, but so worth the wait!! There is a great website to help find places to fish near you. Check out http://www.great-lakes.org/fish_ny.html

Dandelion Greens!

Spring is really here! John picked Dandelion greens down the pasture lane today and enjoyed them for lunch. A little vinegar, minced garlic, and a nice dollop of homemade cultured butter on top! Wow! They were fantastic!!

Some Like It Raw

Very interesting article on the New York Magazine web site,Restaurants section: http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/65483/
Raw milk is gaining in popularity as the number of farms with permits to sell rose: 29 in New York (up from nineteen in 2007), and 100 in Pennsylvania (up from 35 in 2005).

Check out the article!

Chives

The chives are up! We had our first chives and potatoes last night! What a great way to liven up potatoes in the spring! I am very anxious for our first harvest of baby red potatoes, but in the meantime adding fresh minced chives is fantastic!

Finally

The seeds are up!! Pictured are my broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and kale seeds!

Peas!

What a huge surprise March and April have been, here in the Finger Lakes. John was able to prepare the garden over the Easter weekend. Usually we are well into May before this can happen. Today I planted heirloom Alaska Peas, two 44 ft. rows, with a chicken wire fence in between the two for climbing. Peas are my favorite vegetable and getting it done today was pretty exciting. I think I am going to try and plant a vegetable a day. Spinach, Chard, Onions, Lettuce, Radishes, and New Potatoes should all do well now. Well I have been told anyway. I have never planted this early and am really looking at this early spring as a sign of great gardening year ahead! :)

Food

Usually people who like to eat food, like to talk about food, cook food, shop for food, touch food, grow food, smell food, and lastly read about food! I found a book I wanted to share. I have not had a chance to purchase and read myself, but hope to very soon. -'The Town That Food Saved-How One Community Found Vitality In Local Food', by Ben Hewitt. Here is a link to read more about it, http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/slow_food/blog_post/hardwick_vt_the_town_that_food_saved/ Now how about those two blog friends with food books of mine....how are you liking your books? Post me a comment....