When I came home from the market last week I was so excited and fully intended to write a letter then and there. What happened I don’t know. I’m sure I was distracted by something. Maybe sweeping the kitchen floor.
Last week I felt like the market was really becoming what it SHOULD be — there were loads of children (human and animal) — Under Butch and Breann from Clover Wreath’s table was a small congregation of giggling children. Of course I had to investigate because anything that makes a child giggle is well worth anyone’s while. There was a baby goose in a basket down there in the midst of it all calmly eating broccoli greens and flapping it’s little baby goose wings. Every time it moved the crowd around him swelled and giggled a little louder.
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Filed under: Local Food Letter on May 26th, 2009 | Comments Off
Where have I been the past few weeks? You might ask the clouds because I certainly don’t know. Here I am sitting in my front yard amongst cabbage and tomato plants (and about ten million sunflower seeds lying in the ground waiting to come up) and it feels like the first time I’ve sat down in awhile. At least maybe by myself. But what I have been doing- that is a total mystery…. Staring at the rain outside most likely.
I can tell you about a couple things though. From all the way out here in the yard I can here this wonderful pop! as my thousands of jars of lemon marmalade seal. Rain is not the only thing that has been falling from the sky lately- I’ve also been showered with lemons…. But really that is beside the point because they did not fall on the farmer’s market and are therefore rather unimportant…
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Filed under: Local Food Letter on May 12th, 2009 | Comments Off
It has been a slow spring. I say thank goodness sometimes cause it hurts to see everything killed off by early warmth and cruel frost but sometimes I just say Hurry Up Spring! (and hurry up carrots and beets and cabbage)..
Two nights ago we had burritos at my house. It all started with a craving for beans.. I first remembered some refried beans I had made a week or so ago that I froze (they were pinto beans that had been soaking for two days with the High Hopes of turning into pinto beans baked all day with a Sequatchie Cove hog jowl that we bought from Greenlife via the kitchen (I have to pause now to rave about my new boss who thinks it is NORMAL to buy a whole hog and cure the bellies and jowls and use them on the hot bar and in soups. I know that this may sound crazy to some of y’all but for me it is amazingly wonderful (and since he is very sensible and we have a great smoker at work he makes simply gorgeous bacon). I know that all of you don’t have the great connections I have and might have to suffice with simple bacon but if you CAN get your hands on a peppery cured and smoked hog jowl then jump all over it and rejoice…
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Filed under: Local Food Letter, Local Food News on April 16th, 2009 | Comments Off
I was driving down Lookout Mountain this morning on the way to work at Greenlife and I noticed that the redbud on the side of the road was starting to sprout leaves. It is finally sinking in that it is spring. And it sunk it hard that I have not been around to see it as well as I could. There are no redbuds in the kitchen at Greenlife…
BUT. The week before last I had a wonderful dinner party. Parsnips are a friend I never thought I would have- as are chicken livers. But they came to the party and shone like they should…
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Filed under: Local Food Letter, Local Food News on April 6th, 2009 | Comments Off
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