Posted in Farmer's Market on 21. Feb, 2010
Today’s shopper is my friend Donna Blazwich, who’s going to make Sole with Bundled Vegetables. She starts by parboiling her vegetables a few minutes to get them tender: asparagus and carrots from Maggie’s Farm.Then she slices them very thinly and 2″ long, along with some red onion and finely chopped garlic. Then she takes the [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 14. Feb, 2010
Today’s shopper is Caroline De Vita, a talented designer and illustrator. She’s going to make pasta primavera to celebrate this lovely warm weather. She’ll start by oven-roasting this Romanesco cauliflower in chunks with a little olive oil drizzled over top. While that’s in the oven, she sautes some chopped broccoli, zucchini, garlic, and halved cherry [...]
Posted in Weekend Plans on 05. Feb, 2010
Sunday at the MV Farmer’s Market, The Green booth will host the founders of Your Daily Thread, an online magazine for the eco-curious, and I totally recommend coming out to meet them.
Oh, and I understand there’s some sort of sporting event on Sunday as well.
Posted in Farmer's Market on 31. Jan, 2010
Today’s shopper is Elise Derby, who writes Elise’s Ramblings, and she’s going to make Potato Leek Soup. Start with leeks — clean them and separate the white parts from the green. Boil the green parts with chicken stock (or vegetable stock if you prefer) for about 20 minutes, then remove the green leeks from the [...]
Posted in Green on 21. Jan, 2010
Yes, you heard that right — FREE. The Mar Vista Community Council’s Green Committee received a grant from the MVCC Board in order to be able to offer this hugely popular — and very informative — workshop here in Mar Vista at no charge to participants. Sustainable Works has been running these 6-week workshops in [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 06. Dec, 2009
Today’s shopper is Sara Davenport, owner of Broadway Skin Studio, a full service medical spa specializing in skin rejuvenation and facial contouring. Sara is going to make guacamole. She takes 2 avocados, peels and chops them, but takes care not to mash them into a paste. She then chops 1 beefsteak tomato, 1/2 a red [...]
Posted in Mar Vista on 18. Nov, 2009
Mar Vista has earned two honors this month, and they both deserve to be acknowledged. First, the Mar Vista Community Council was honored by the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE) during their Empower LA 2009: A Congress of Neighborhoods. The MVCC won one of only 8 First Annual Neighborhood Council Peer Awards given in four [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market, Mar Vista on 08. Nov, 2009
Today’s shopper is Kami Turrou, a Mar Vista mom whose kids go to Richland Ave. Elementary. She’s on the board of their booster club, RichlandBooster.com, and you can make a donation anytime on their site.
Kami’s going to make a carrot/yogurt salad. She starts by grating these multi-colored carrots and adding these honey crisp apples all [...]
Posted in Green on 03. Nov, 2009
The Mar Vista Community Council’s Green Committee has unanimously approved a motion to make Mar Vista the first clean electricity neighborhood in Los Angeles, with a goal of 100% clean electricity by 2018. The motion must be approved by the Community Council Board on November 10, and your support is needed! Please sign this petition, [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 19. Jul, 2009
So much new stuff today! First of all, there is a shady dining area next to the Post Office, and the coffee cart, fish booth, lemonade and nachoshave all formed an open area.
Plus the kids’ craft booth is in a new spot, behind the Vegan section,and there’s also a new food booth: wood-fired pizza!The Mar Vista [...]
