After making last week’s Apple-Rhubarb Galette, I still had a pound of rhubarb and some of those wintered-over apples left. I could, of course, have made a second galette, but the gourmand inside me wanted something different, just for the sake of experimenting. I thought, “the apples and rhubarb combination was so good in a…
I’d forgotten about my liking for rhubarb until last Saturday morning, when I happened upon a stack of gorgeous ruby-pink bunches of it at the farmers’ market. I had no idea what I would do with it, but I couldn’t pass it up, and so bought two pounds – enough for whatever concoction might present…
Since I decided to go to the next level in locavore-ism and join a community-supported farm this summer, I figured the best thing I can do is ramp up my attitude that food is an adventure. There are sure to be all sorts of unfamiliar vegetables in my weekly harvest share. I also figured I…
It’s May: the beginning of farmers’ market season. That may not mean much to you, but for a locavore, it signifies a change in one’s weekend lifestyle. May through October, I get up early every Saturday morning – yes, voluntarily – and head for Grand Rapids’ Fulton Street Farmers’ Market. Usually, when I mention this…