The fall weather is well and truly here ... cool nights, frosty mornings, and a craving for hot comfort foods, easy to make easy to eat, and smothered in gravy/sauce of some kind.

In this a slow cooker, and/or a big cast iron enamel dutch oven are your friends.
This week was ox tail stew - in the slow cooker for a market decorating day potluck
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Geez, I haven't updated in forever..... work, and new job applications and ... Life getting in the way of art ( Read more... )

Riverview Farms has had a bumper crop of cranberries this year, and of course, I'm making the best of it ( Read more... )

I've been working a lot of hours the past couple weeks covering other staff's vacation time, so with only one day off - today - I decided, much as I hate to miss a market, to stay home and catch up on some things.

One of the things I need to catch up on is BACON.

I love bacon, I love pancetta, and thanks to Michael Ruhlman I no longer fear making ( Read more... )

Another Market Day has come and gone, and this time of year root veg is the name of the game. Admttedly this past week has been unseasonably warm but it's still chill enough to crave thick rich warm soups.

So when Canadian Gardening's weekly email came across my desktop with Fall Root Vegetable Soup well it just filled a natural niche and even the ( Read more... )

Our local farmer's market isn't the biggest, but it's a bright vibrant place with great vendors and a nice selection of offerings ( Read more... )

An early frost this week has put a quick end to what was left of the vegetables coming in ( Read more... )