Ideas for Winter Veggies & Greens

During a North Carolina winter, it can be challening for even the most committed locavores to eat local produce. The carrots are frozen in the ground and everything else is growing very slowly. We're seeing lettuces, leafy greens and some root vegetables at the market these days. Does a green leaf salad feel like winter food?

Sweet T's Chocolate Stout Layer Cake

Makes a 2-layer cake or ~32 cupcakes 3 ounces unsweetened better quality chocolate, chopped 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour 2 tablespoons baking powder ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon salt 1 ¾ sticks unsalted butter, softened to room temperature 1 ¼ cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar 3 large eggs ¾ cup of stout beer (I prefer Young's Chocolate Stout or other chocolate

Genetically Engineered Alfalfa, why should we care?

Written by Juliann Zoetmulder, President WWFM

I receive a lot of action alerts in my inbox related to food and farmers and laws that affect them, but one caught my attention recently that I almost overlooked. It’s all about something that I don’t eat anyway so why would I care? Whatever side of the food politics fence you’re on, I think we can agree that we all must eat. The important thing is to know more about how the food you eat is grown and whether or not it is safe. Now, I don’t eat alfalfa sprouts so I almost hit delete on this news until I figured out that many things that I eat, eat alfalfa. This is true especially if you consume meat or dairy products.

Shelby's Peachy Pork

Shelby McKenzie (Shelly Mac Farm) has shared one of her favorite recipes this week: Peachy Pork. This can be done quite "locally," using Shelly Mac's peach jam and farmers' market pork. The recipe also calls for salsa. When tomatoes are back in season, try making your own! There are many delicious ways to serve this dish - over a bed of greens, wrapped in a tortilla, over rice or on it's own.

Trash Talking

Written by Juliann Zoetmulder, President WWFM

I rolled out our big, green garbage bin today and something felt different. The bin was much lighter. I opened the lid and noticed that my garbage for the week filled up less than half of the bin. We’re still a family of 5 and we weren’t on vacation so what could be going on? I asked my husband, Eric, and he told me it’s been like that for a few months now and traced it back to some changes we made to our household that center around food.

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Farmers' Market Red Lentil Curry

The past several weeks of heavy holiday eating left me craving something lighter this week. Feeling frugal and also seeking a way to use my leftover Coon Rock Farm smoked ham from Christmas, I turned to my pantry and fridge to see what could be transformed into a respectable meal.