One Local Summer hasn’t officially started up yet, but here in Berkshire county, we’re eating local several days a a week thanks to the amazing, beautiful bounty of the Caretaker Farm CSA. Tonight we had a positively sublime summer salad due, in part, to a bit of a cheesemaking fluke. From failure comes total deliciousness [...]

Last week went undocumented due to various stresses and parents being in town. Sure, we binged on local foods — there’s no stopping us in that regard — but we drank so much wine, we barely managed to clean up after ourselves, not to mention capture each glorious meal in a breathtaking, sun-drenched photograph. So, [...]

Living out in small-town America with only your husband and dog as pals, you sometimes forget how great it is to have good friends around. Though I’m far from the world’s most sociable person — I probably require quite a bit more down time than average — I do in fact love to have friends [...]

Back when I was doing veggie duty at the cafe in Brooklyn, one of my favorite tasks was making the day’s soup. If I got into the cafe early enough, I’d have an hour or two to myself to chop the aromatics and get everything in the pot and simmering away nicely before people starting [...]

You should have seen the bag of tomatoes we foisted on the poor market fellow. It must have weighed at least six pounds. I hope it weighed at least six pounds, because it was expensive. Heirloom tomatoes: so delicious, so pricey.
So when I got home yesterday afternoon, and examined our market purchases, it seemed the [...]

I forgot to post about my mind-blowing breakfast of week 3, but in the meantime, here is the scrumptious meal Dan and I put together for week 4. We’re about to head up to Lake George for the wedding of some good friends, and had to use up a lot of the veggies in the [...]

This shot is about as close as I get to food porn.

That’s mostly because my camera is not cut out for the dim light of my kitchen. This was shot in the studio, a place where food usually isn’t.
Truly a breakfast of champions, my friends, and all the better because Dan can actually make an [...]

Making up for lost time here, as we were on the road — driving cross-country — for week one.
As you can see, for dinner last night we made a mostly local pesto pizza. We usually make our own pizza crusts (Dan makes a killer pizza), but tried a locally made crust from the co-op this [...]

Officially, and for the first time, I am a One Local Summer participant.

At long last, I’m in real local food territory, with the lucky break of being as close to Vermont as possible without living there. This means, of course, that it’s super-easy to find stunning local cheeses, including this smooth chère from the Vermont [...]