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At the Alexandria Markets: Strawberries!

May 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments

It’s Farmers Market week here at FoodieTots, so stay tuned all week for market re-openings and seasonal recipes featuring farm fresh food from the Chesapeake Bay foodshed. Hooray for spring! The rain held off most of the morning for the Del Ray Farmers Market (Saturdays, 8am-noon). New vendor Shlagel Farms had just a few of […]

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Tags: at market · eatLocalDC · farmers market news · NoVA Locavore · recipes

Shellfish on Friday

February 27th, 2009 · 13 Comments

Now that Lent is here, I have even more incentive to try new seafood recipes to incorporate more sustainable seafood into our diet. This was actually our Shrove Tuesday pancake meal, but we will definitely be making it again. Shellfish is loaded with nutrients (scallops with vitamin B12) and while my son isn’t yet slurping […]

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Tags: fish · recipes · seafood

Recipe Swap Sunday

January 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I find a lot of great new recipe ideas from the foodbloggers I follow on Twitter, and in my daily blog skimming, and instead of just saving them to my own favorites I’ve started a “recipe retweet of the day” to share what I find. For those of you who aren’t on Twitter, here’s what […]

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Tags: foodblogs · recipes

Sustainable Family Supper, Fish Night

January 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments

In addition to the general guides mentioned above, regional Seafood Watch guides are also available. I know I usually advocate for eating locally and then admit that we often eat wild Alaskan salmon. Unfortunately, our local waterways are so polluted and endangered that local seafood is minimally available. I do buy local Blue crabs, oysters […]

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Tags: fish · grains · recipes · seafood · sustainable family supper · weeknight meals

Best of 2008

December 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Your favorite recipes of 2008 … 10 …Sesame Beef Stir-Fry 9 … Watermelon Gazpacho 8 … Creamy Apple Celery Soup 7 … Rainier Cherry Glazed Pork Chops 6 … Organic Spiced Cranberry Sauce 5 … Zesty Green Beans Almondine 4 … Zucchini Tagliatelle Alfredo 3 … Pork Chops with Rhubarb Barbecue Sauce 2 … Cranberry […]

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Tags: admin notes · eatLocalDC · recipes