Our First Rockland Food Swap happened! The Piermont Reformed Church donated their meeting room and we set up tables, boiled some water, set out the name tags, had our reservation list and our swap items. The stage was set for the arrival of the glorious Swappers! And they came....and they brought all variety of delectables...
Take a look at some of the photographs.
Plan on joining us for the next Food Swap on Tuesday, February 26th - 6:30-8:30 pm. Please Register with your name, phone number and email; it helps to know how many people to expect. You can leave a comment below.
Phone: Phyllis Segura: 845-365-0042 to register.
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| Homemade Wine and Pickled Peppers |
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| Janice and Philip filling out the Swap Bid forms. |
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| Table full of variety. |
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| Bringing it. Home-cured Pork Belly, pickled peppers, homemade wine, banana bread, peach moscato, quince jelly, mango chutney, red pepper tapenade, spiced pecans, sherry peppers, spanikopita, mushroom soup coconut cake, stuffed poblano peppers and beans, pineapple chutney, carrot-ginger soup with cashew cream, gluten-free chocolate Babka, chestnut cake, Burnt Aillade, candied oranges and grapefruit rind, hummus, flourless chocolate cake, blueberry jam, marmalade... |
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| Waiting to hear how to do the Swap. They look happy. | |
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| Spiced Pecans |
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| Stuffed Poblanos: a whole meal. |
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| Who's got what? |
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| Tamika sets out her display. |
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| Boxes filled with Spanakopita |
Article from Newsday.
Rockland foodies meet to swap creations
Originally published: January 30,
2013
By D.Z. STONE
…edited
version…
Food aficionados from experienced
chefs to traditional home cooks gathered Tuesday evening in Piermont to trade
homemade Burnt Aillade sauce, made of garlic and walnuts, for pickled
nectarines and to swap Babka for sherry peppers.
Thirteen epicures braved the cold
and rain to attend Rockland County's first food swap, a growing phenomenon in
Brooklyn and elsewhere imported to the Lower Hudson Valley by personal chefs
Rachel Mack and Phyllis Segura, who met through Facebook even
though they live in neighboring villages, Grandview and Piermont respectively.
"This area has a lot of
creative personalities interested in good food," said Mack. "Food
swaps are all over the country. I was surprised they were not already here.
Rockland County has a good personality for a food swap."
Held at the Piermont Reformed
Church, which was founded in 1839 and overlooks the Sparkill Creek, the swap
helped lift spirits in a community where Hurricane Sandy
remains topical.
Inside the church meeting room,
participants carefully displayed their meticulously packaged handcrafted foods
on wooden folding tables. All signed a release stating they were aware of the
risks in acquiring and eating foods not prepared in licensed kitchens or
factories.
Over the next 90 minutes or so, amid
conversation that turned from food and cooking to spouses and work, swappers
made rounds and placed written bids for items, listing what food they were
offering in exchange. Trades can be declined.
Many of the items were
labor-intensive. Tamika Adjemian, author of Belle Jar Canning blog, spent
three days preparing her membrillo paste, a Spanish jam made of quince.
"It takes a lot of work to make. Twelve hours total of stirring. I made it
after Hurricane Sandy,
when I had no electricity but gas on the stove," Adjemian said.
Philip Denlinger from Monsey, who
pickled peppers and made homemade wine, and Ted Alexander of Pomona, who made spiced pecans, were the
two men in the group.
Dara Erck, a recent Nyack transplant
from Brooklyn, brought Greek spanakopita packaged and tied with ribbon and tags
artfully inked by her Spanish au pair. "The Brooklyn swaps have younger
people. More hipsters," Erck said. "Next time I'll bring some of my
friends."
At the end of the swap, personal
chef Janice van Buskirk gathered the bag of goodies she got in exchange for her Aillade sauce and gluten-free chestnut cake. "It feels like Christmas,"
she said.
The next Rockland Food Swap is
scheduled for Feb. 26 at the Piermont Reformed Church, which will again donate
the space.
