It’s that time of year again and the Farmer’s Market is buzzing again with locals unfreezing from the winter! Some of us faithfully stuck with our markets, snapping up yummy winter veggies with gusto…even fattening up with yummy chocolate sweets.
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Delights from our Kitchen contributing!
Introducing Delights from our Kitchen, our first commercial contributor! DFK will be sharing updates and recipes from Union City, New Jersey as they traverse the culinary threshold. We all wish them a warm welcome.
Happy Girl Kitchen Co.
Ok so I’ve never had homemade or organic ketchup before. It was always Heinz for me but when I came across Happy Girl Kitchen Co with their beautiful tent at the downtown Farmer’s Market I had to give in and spend more money than I’m used to for this ketchup. I’m glad I did. It’s [...]
CupCake Camp in San Francisco!
CupCake Camp was so much fun! In fact it was such a success that the volunteers could barely keep up with demand! Sadly this meant that actually eating a dozen or so cupcakes (as I’d planned) wasn’t possible – still, the four or five cupcakes that I was able to steal a bite of were [...]
Farmers Market at the White House
Small, local farms are on the rise! Seems the administrative branch is ready to embrace and support local farming on a wide scale, including a pilot program for food stamp exchange at farmers markets. This is big, people: the White House now has its very own farmers market, the first since Thomas Jefferson [...]
Preparing for Cupcake Camp
No recipes this week because we’ve been baking up a storm preparing for Cupcake Camp! We started with a very nice Red Velvet cake – delicious but lacking inspiration. We decided to switch at the last minute with something Moonbug came up with – visit the party at Pier 38 tomorrow and taste for yourself!
Bread Experiment Creates Inedible Brick
Sadly the bread recipe that required the lard turned out to be a dud. Was it inedible? Not if you like eating cinnamon cardboard. I don’t blame the lard – it was the recipe. Lesson learned: don’t trust recipes you find on the internet count on a shot in the dark [...]
Santa Cruz Farmers Market
Our weekly farmers market trip brought us to Cedar Street in downtown Santa Cruz. In the hopes of finding some free-range lard for a certain bread-making experiment we discovered some other culinary interests: Farmhouse Culture, sellers of Sauerkraut, Happy Girl Kitchen’s “Yum” ketchup, and some damn fine dried Apricots from Apricot King. Seriously, those things [...]
Fudge Failure
Our first blog was going to be about Fudge but a failure to communicate simple recipe directions plus a cranky sleepy one-year old equaled a delicious tasting grainy brick.
Farmer Cooker Launch!
So happy to be here! This Wednesday: a merry jaunt to the Santa Cruz (Pacific Avenue) farmers market for yummy inspiration! Also, recipes for homespun carrot garnish, canned dill beans, turkey burger sliders, and another daring attempt at making some yummy fudge! We’re so excited, so delighted – everything is going so welll!