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FarmPlate Jun 09, 2010 Chives 0 comments
You can bike, walk or even ride your skateboard to your local farmers' market this weekend. There's no need to bring the truck--local vegetables are so tiny right now they'll all fit into one handy basket. Check out Half Pint Farm at Vermont's Burlington Farmer's Market this Saturday and you'll see that their carrots are small enough to slide into your back pocket. The turnips are no bigger than ping-pong balls. Their radishes are the size of shooter marbles. But what these babies lack in size they more than make up for in utter sweetness.
If you don't gobble up these vegetable gems within the first hour of coming home, consider roasting them for an easy side dish alongside roast chicken or...
FarmPlate May 19, 2010 Chives 0 comments
Why do we love Maine rope-grown blue mussels?
To start, they're cheap, they're meaty and they're ever so sweet. Plus there's no question about seafood sustainability issues with rope-grown mussels. Mussel farming on suspended ropes is considered an environmentally benign form of aquaculture compared to finfish farming, which can pollute and cause other environmental problems. Seafood WATCH gives the blue-black bivalves its Best Choice rating.
Getting mussels ready for the pot used to be tedious. You needed a stiff brush to scrub each and every one to remove the crusty bits. Next you soaked them in fresh water with a dusting of flour floating on the surface, which was supposed to purge any...






