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Fare Exchange is a longtime meeting place for people who love to cook and love to eat. We welcome both your recipes and your requests. Be sure to include precise instructions for every recipe you send. Mailing address: Jane Henegar, 913 Mount Olive Road, Lookout Mountain, GA 30750 E-mail: chattfare@gmail.com
Good morning and welcome to challenges then to creations that will inspire you to get cooking. First, a repeat quartet of requests: Lobster bisque, house dressing from the former Loft Restaurant, recipes using kale and recipes using cabbage.
You asked about market baskets of fresh produce delivered to individuals and right away D. Tingey answered. “Signal Mountain Farms and Crabtree Farms are two, but there are a bunch more around here. If you go to the Main Street Farmers Market on Wednesdays at 4:00 (till 5:00 right now and then to 6:00 later in the spring) you will be able to meet some of the farmers and have no lack of places to find fresh local veggies by the box.”
Homemade extract
We’ve gotten spoiled by instant gratification when it comes to food. A person’s day can be ruined just encountering a long line in the drive-through at the fast food place. There’s a first-world problem, for sure. And so the next recipe, from Lynn Carroll, has a counterculture appeal. To make your own vanilla extract, you need vodka and vanilla beans — and four months’ worth of patience. Ms. Carroll has been doing this for decades, and affirms the process as “the exact quality and concentration and concentration for perfect flavor. I’ve made ahead some years and given to friends as hostess gifts.”