Local Organic Sunflower Oil

 

Local organic cooking oil from upstate New York, how exciting is that?   

Cayuga Pure Organics are the farmers I buy flour, oat groats (for home made digestive biscuits) and dried beans from.  Today when I stopped by their stand at the Union Square Green Market to buy some whole wheat bread flour and saw they were now making and selling Sunflower Oil I was ecstatic!  It marks the first time in my 12 or so years of green market shopping I have ever seen  a local cooking oil.  A 16 ounce bottle retails for $10. 

It tastes great on salads and is good for cooking even at high temperature. 

As someone with locavore aspirations it is truly exciting to see a high quality locally grown and made cooking oil, it's a first.  Mostly I buy Olive Oil or German sunflower seed oil, now I have a local alternative of high quality and good flavor, can't wait to see this showing up on restaurant menus. 

The people are Cayuga are very clever and understand what cooks who are concerned about being sustainable, local and making as light a foot print as possible want.  Two staples that have been near to impossible, until recently, to find where: good locally grown wheat and cooking oil.  And thanks to Cayuga we now have both.  Now if only we could figure out a local substitute for sugar..

A Winter's Market Stroll

Cheese, meat, eggs, fish, root vegetables, apples, pears, frozen seasonal vegetables, sheep skin rugs, Ostrich meat dog treats, hyrdoponic organic greens and so much more.  It may be the dead of Winter, but that is no excuse not to be shopping at the farmers market which is filled with everything you need to make a delicious, local repast. 

Come take a stroll with me...

  

Cayuga Organics not only sells a wonderful selection of stone ground local organic flours they also make awesome bread and sell things like Oat groats so you can make your own digestive biscuits at home!

Hot Bread Kitchen not only makes a dizzying array of delicious baked goods they do so as a non-profit dedicated to creating better lives for low-income women and their families.  They do this by paying women while they learn the skills necessary to launch food businesses and achieve management track positions in food manufacturing.  And we benefit by being able to eat all their delicious goods while feeling good about supporting such a fine company.

 

Rick's Picks pickles are a perennial favorite which are also sold at Whole Foods and other fine grocery stores around town.

 Good to know for when you are setting up your roof top bee hive!

 Two Guys from Woodbridge hydroponics:

Hawthorne Valley Farm, the best yogurt, quark and lacto-fermented pickles, they also have a great selection of cheeses (the aged Alpine is my favorite!) some green house greens, baked goods and bread!

 Wine to have with your meat, cheese and bread from the Finger Lakes

Not only does 3 Corner Field Farm sell some of the best cheese at the market (you have to try their Shushan Snow OMG it is so good) they also sell Lamb and Sheep meat and rugs - nothing is wasted, as it is suppose to be.