From the category archives:

Slow Food

Nettle Pasta

Rinsing Nettles (wear gloves!)

Nettles are everywhere I look and I can’t control myself!
Today I made nettle pasta. Here is a very simple recipe for homemade pasta from my friend Wilma from Tavarnelle Val di Pesa Florence, Italy.

eggs from healthy chickens in a well of flour

Pasta 101
4 cups Semolina flour
4 eggs (or 2 cups cooked vegetables [...]

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April and Stinging Nettles

Now is the time to harvest nettle leaves, before they flower.
Nettles are intensely nourishing as a vegetable or as a tea. Cooking dispels the sting, as does drying. Fresh nettles may be simmered in a little water for ten to twenty minutes for a spinach-like vegetable rich in protein, a very high source of [...]

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Salute to Raw Milk

Due to the impending hearing on Monday, May 10th in Boston, I have been compelled to create a special page on Living Local on Martha’s Vineyard and Beyond and dedicate it wholly to Raw Milk.
Salute to Raw Milk
Visit this informative page – learn facts about raw milk as well as the current political actions lying [...]

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Naked Hippies and a Roach Coach

Off the plane in San Francisco and I head straight to the Oakland Farmers Market where fresh guacamole sells for $5.00, citrons are everywhere, and I buy Indian samosa’s laden with cilantro chutney.
Fresh juices, pomegranates, music, chef demonstrations fill my senses.
Ahh.. I love this life!
The citrus is abundant, the artichokes giant blooms with stalks as [...]

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