6 Easy Ways to Step Up your Culinary Game
Here’s our top picks on how to really step up your culinary game, whether you’re a novice in the kitchen or a seasoned chef.
Venture Vermont: West River Farmer’s Market
August 3-9, 2015 is Vermont Open Farms Week. What better way to celebrate locally grown fresh fare than at the farmers market in our own backyard? When May 23 – October 10, 2015 | Every Saturday from 9am-1pm Directions Intersection of Rt.11 and Rt. 100 in Londonderry, VT. See map here. When…
The Green Apron Competes to be the Better Burger
How do you like your burger? Meat? Veggie? Lettuce, tomato, onion? Blended with mushrooms? …Wait… What was that last one? Hamburger meat blended together with mushrooms. Hmm, that sounds interesting. Well, as part of a new health initiative, the chefs at Stratton’s Green Apron will be hard at work this summer putting their…
Keep It Local
By Courtney DiFiore Growing up in the Adirondacks, a love for fresh, local produce was instilled in me; I could walk into my backyard and pick my own berries. When I moved to Vermont, I found it even easier to stock up on locally made products. Stop by any farmer’s market and…
Go ahead. Play with your food.
By Myra Foster Every day is different as our farms and gardens deliver a rolling cast of flavors and colors. Of fruits and vegetables. Today it’s favas, bright green in their giant pods and nothing at all like those beige beans you find in the supermarket. Even if you are no Silence…
“Green Restaurant in the Green Mountain State”
By Lucyann Murray Stratton Food and Beverage Achieves “Green Restaurant in the Green Mountain State” Designation A number of initiatives have been cooking behind the scenes this winter in Stratton Mountain Food & Beverage. While striving for quality and consistency, an element of sustainability has been incorporated through local sourcing of food,…
The Maple Syrup Season
By Kelsey Boyce The original North American sweetener, the sweet nectar of the gods, liquid gold for your tastebuds. Whatever you like to call it, Maple Syrup is a North American tradition in both creation and consumption. Oral stories vary from Native American and First Nations peoples on the discovery that the…
The Fire Tower Restaurant & Tavern
By Lauren Suriani Who doesn’t love a good meal, especially when it’s delicious? Last night the marketing team at Stratton got a chance to try out the new restaurant located in the Stratton Village, The Fire Tower Restaurant & Tavern (formally Organic Pizza Company). If you were around at all this summer,…
Beer & Chili
By Rob Chrostowski I LOVE beer and chili, so suffice it to say I’m excited for the Chili Cook-off and Brew Fest this weekend! There’s nothing better than a cold beer to take the edge out of some spicy food. Light lagers and amber ales pair quite well with Chili and are perfect…
Sunday Dinners at Grandma’s
By Diane Lovell Sunday Dinners at Grandma’s house ranked very high on the family priority list when I was a kid growing up in rural Virginia. Farm-to-Table was our way of life back then. My Grandma would fry up a couple of her chickens straight from the coop, bake a batch of…