At the Alexandria Markets: We’ve returned to our Alexandria farmers markets after our recent travels, and witnessed that unequivocal sign of seasons changing from summer to fall in the peaches and tomatoes being nudged out by apples, pears, and early winter squash. Now I don’t know if there’s some sort of zucchini shortage in Northern […]
At Market: Simple Tomato Gazpacho
September 14th, 2009 · 13 Comments
Tags: at market · cooking with kids · cooking with toddlers · NoVA Locavore · one local harvest · recipes · soup · weeknight meals
Preserving Summer: Tomato Jam
August 31st, 2009 · 10 Comments
Our Potomac Vegetable Farms CSA bag was full of ripe summer tomatoes last week, after a slow and soggy start to tomato season here in Virginia. Unfortunately, we were leaving town the day after our pick-up. Of course, that was also the day we got the notice that the boxes of surplus canning tomatoes were […]
Tags: cooking with kids · CSA · preserving · recipes · tomato · vegetables
One Local Summer Tomato Peach Panzanella
August 11th, 2009 · 6 Comments
By this point of the summer, meals at the Foodie Tot house tend to become simple variations of mixed grill or summer salads. To say I am obsessed with the pairing of summer tomatoes and peaches would be an understatement. This Italian bread salad, incorporating the two plus sweet corn, is the perfect showcase for […]
Tags: at market · NoVA Locavore · one local summer · recipes · salad
Cooking Julia with Kids: Blueberry Clafouti (and a film review)
August 7th, 2009 · 12 Comments
The new film Julie & Julia opens tonight, and if you have even a passing interest in food and cooking I highly suggest you catch it. If you haven’t seen the trailer (or book or blog), it’s a Nora Ephron film about a girl, Julie Powell, who decides to cook and blog her way through […]
Tags: at market · cooking with kids · dessert · foodietots reviews · recipes
One Local Nacho Night (and CSA Mid-Season Report)
July 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on One Local Nacho Night (and CSA Mid-Season Report)
We’re already more than a third of the way through our CSA season, and we’ve finally left the abundant leafy greens behind and moved on to the baby vegetable phase. Well, there were some full size sweet onions this week, but everything else seemed perfectly sized for the toddler — baby beets, baby yellow squash, […]
Tags: CSA · one local summer · proteins · recipes · squash · weeknight meals