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Events 2010:
Of Course U Can: "Pickling Madness"
Learn to pickle, can and preserve:
Sunday, July 25
Fern Hollow Nature Center in Sewickley
$15
Learn to make 4 kinds of pickles:
--Star pickler, Post-Gazette's Miriam Rubin, teaches Grandma Rubin's Dills.
Everyone makes a jar to take home.
--Susie Treon's Old-Fashioned Sweet Pickle Chips
--Paul Bertolli's Pickled Wax Beans and
--Pickled Asian Eggplant
Pickling faculty includes Nancy Hanst, food-teacher/writer extraordinaire and the Slow Food team.
All recipes are included.
Ploughman's Lunch: Taste all pickles we make with good cheese and Mediterra Bread
Someone wins one of our famous Bonanza Canning Baskets--books, tools, samples of all pickles & more.
Vinegar and mustard contributed by Pittsburgh's own Heinz.
Click on the link below to purchase ticket.
Register Now!.
MeatTHINK: STARTS IN AUGUST
Explore our relationship to the meat we eat. See butchering, learn cuts.
Beef, pork, lamb, chicken. Know why local/pastured and humane killing mean something.
Hear from old school and "new wave" butchers, chefs, farmers, meat purveyors.
August 6 & 7:
PASA's State-wide Grass-Fed Beef Burger Taste-Off and a Beef Butchering Master Class co-sponsored by SFP, at Jamison Farm in Latrobe.
Burger Picnic Saturday at the Farm.
Sunday Aug. 29:
Chicken: The Farmer's Wife/Green Circle Farm Demo: humane killing. Plucking, cleaning, preparing for cooking. Organic picnic follows.
Saturday, Oct. 30:
Pork: Strip District Meats' Ray Turkas Jr. will demo butchery of a Heilman half hog. Meal afterward at Ray's Cafe next door.
Date TBA:
Lamb: Halal and Kosher. Butchering skill and tradition. Salem's Market in the Strip.
Lamb roast follows at the market.
Farmers@Firehouse
MARKET OPEN SATURDAYS
New hours:
Saturday 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
More info
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