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In spring, when the days start to get longer and warmer, hens start producing more eggs. It is part of their natural cycle. However, when we shop in grocery stores

We often avoided this favorite ingredient not because we didn't like it, but because we didn't want to open a can only to use one or two peppers - throwing the rest away.

We are advocates of eating in-season as much as we are for eating local

The new year always kicks us into gear to renew and re-organize and so we started off 2010 with a winter hike with friends and food.

If you are snowed in and very happily exhausted after a few hours of cross-country skiing or sledding, you may want to settle into just a little bit of kitchen time to start preparing for Christmas week.

Kohlrabi just barely makes it into the root vegetable category. The bulbous part that is generally eaten is actually a swollen stem which is only half submerged beneath the earth.

By definition, pumpkin is a squash. At market, those large, ungainly orange globes are generally grown for Jack-O-Lanterns.

As market cooks, sometimes we go to the farmers’ market with a list or idea of what we want to cook, especially as we become more attuned to shopping by season. But, sometimes we have to take a carpe diem approach and “sieze the day.”