Local Living 
A Breakfast Ritual Worth Repeating
Many families have a ritual around at least one special meal a week. For us it’s our Saturday morning trip to the farmers market followed by breakfast at home, made with everything farm-fresh. It’s the same every week. We wake up, roll out of bed, get dressed and set off to the market. We usually [...]
What’s Up With the Paper Cup?
Oscars tonight. In the meantime something else to ponder, and sorry, no gowns involved. It’s the not-so-glamorous, but equally frivolous paper cup. Use them once and discard. While others have been carrying their reusable cups into coffee shops the past few years, I rarely have. Truthfully, I don’t buy much coffee out, but still, I [...]
Shop Your Pantry & Freezer
Last week while my car was being repaired, I was forced to think about my all-too-often impulse to “run to the grocery store” to pick up something for dinner. Run meaning, of course, drive. I’m sorry to say that it took me not having my car to look at the food I already had and [...]
Carbon 101, Foodprints
In the past few years I’ve read several books about food and meat production, Omnivore’s Dilemma (Michael Pollan), Grub (Anna Lappe & Bryant Terry), watched the film, Food Inc. I reached a tipping point recently while reading Eating Animals (Jonathan Safran Foer). A perfect storm of revelation and repulsion happened. I guess you could call [...]
Back to Our Roots, Roast ‘em
Now’s the time to roast any vegetable, and I think I mean any vegetable. If there’s an exception I don’t know what it is. Maybe lettuce. Warm up the house, kick up the flavor, which caramelization via high-heat roasting accomplishes (the Maillard Reaction), and dinner, maybe two, is halfway done. It’s an efficient way to [...]
Mixed Greens 2010 Calendar Giveaway
It’s time for our first giveaway of 2010. All you have to do to enter to win a Mixed Greens 2010 Calendar is comment on this post by January 24th. In your comment we’d like you to mention at least one sustainable practice you hope to incorporate into your daily life during 2010. It can [...]
Snacks Unwrapped
I’m reading the paper the other morning, oblivious to the impending New Year, when from across the room Bob asked if I had resolutions for 2010. Not yet, was my absent-minded reply. But then the brain started buzzing, independent of what I thought I wanted it to do, and it began to muse about the [...]
Wishes for Happy and Healthy Holidays
Sally and I are taking a very short break to spend time with our friends and families over the holidays. We’ll be back early in 2010 with renewed energy and ideas to share with you. With new light of the winter solstice I find myself looking for inspiration, walking in the woods, sleeping and eating [...]
Mixed Greens 2010 Calendars are Here
Just in the nick of time, our calendars are in and ready to ship to you. We love our new format — they sit sweetly on your desk or countertop. Each month features one of our favorite seasonal, local food photographs with a recipe on the back from our Mixed Greens collection.
The calendar comes packed [...]
Shallots step up to the plate
All winter long there’s a bag of shallots in the pantry, periodically refreshed with more from the Farmers Market. Pipitone Farms provided these beauties, and PCC has shallots from Rent’s Due Ranch. Loyal and sturdy characters, they’re bit part players, chopped up finely for salad dressings, sautéed with butter to dress up all kinds [...]
