Apples, pears, squash, pumpkins – and more! – arrive in autumn harvest; Calling all knitters: beautiful alapaca yarn in Croton-on-Hudson; FOUR rotating vendors join Piermont market on Sunday + MORE October 2nd – 8th, 2014 DowntoEarthMarkets.com | ||||||||||||
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Ossining In celebration of the effort to Bring Your Own Bag to the market – BYOBag – Mead Orchards is offering a FREE reusable bag with all purchases of $5 or more. We thank all the vendors – and shoppers! – for helping the Ossining market eliminate plastic shopping bags.Croton-on-Hudson From 11 am to 1 pm this Sunday, join us for the annual apple tasting. Stop by the manager’s tent to try some of the season’s best varieties from the market’s orchard growers. Then pick up some to enjoy at home (and try the 1st place apple pie recipe below…)! For additional events, visit our Down to Earth Markets Event Calendar. Stay tuned to all market happenings via our Down to Earth Markets Facebook page
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Apple Crumb Pie with Bourbon-Soaked Figs and a Cheddar Crust by Piermont Farmers Market Shopper (+ 1st Place Apple Pie Contest Winner!) Michele Langer Lynn | ||||||||||||
Last Sunday, together with the Piermont Chamber of Commerce, we held the highly-anticipated 2nd Annual Apple Pie Contest at Piermont’s Down to Earth Farmers Market. Fifteen local residents competed before the discerning palates of three local baking talents: Sylvia Welch, Peter Kelly, and Mark Taster. The 1st Prize went to Michele Langer Lynn, who then shared her story AND her awe-inspiring Apple Pie recipe. She wrote, “The last time I baked a crust from scratch was over 30 years ago, and it came out awful – 3” thick. I never attempted one again until the contest. That’s how bad it came out! I’d always buy frozen crusts for my quiches and pies. I was going to bale, but Natalie [Piermont Market Manager] urged me to enter. So I challenged myself to make a decent crust, and I’m so happy I did. The recipe I sent for the crust is accurate, the filling and crumb crust measurements are my estimations of the amounts I used.” We’re so happy she created her crust from scratch, too. Here’s her recipe below – let us know if it turns out to be a winner in your home. Congratulations, Michele! Pie Crust: Makes enough dough for one double or two single-crust pies. Prepare dough, leave enough time to chill for 3 hours or overnight 2 1/2 cups flour 6 oz. Yany’s Fancy’s XXX Sharp Cheddar shredded small & coarsely 1 Tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon Kosher salt 2 sticks unsalted butter, well chilled 1 cup very cold iced water Mix together dry ingredients. Chop 2 sticks of very cold unsalted butter into 1/2-inch pieces. Coat the butter cubes in the flour mix. Blend them in with the pastry blender, scoop and redistribute the mixture until it gets to a crumbly texture, it should like small peas. Add cheddar cheese, mix it up until blended but still looks like the small peas. Form the dough: Start by drizzling 1/2 cup of the ice-cold water over the butter and flour mixture. Add more water a tablespoon at a time. Use a rubber spatula, to mix the dough. Keep adding water bit by bit until you can grab it all together a form a dough ball. You need to grab it lightly so that the butter remains chilled. Cut the dough in half, wrap each half tightly up in plastic. Chill the balls overnight, or no less the 3 hours. Roll dough out on well floured board into 1 12” diameter circle. Cut the dough circle using a knife and a plate that is about 12” as a stencil. You can roll out the extra dough pieces to make little shapes to decorate your pie using cookie cutters. You can adhere the shapes to the crust with the egg wash. Fill the pie with filling below. Brush the egg wash over the edges of the pie. NEXT STEP Apple and Fig Pie Filling – CONTINUE HERE… | ||||||||||||
Rotating* Vendors This Week *Vendors who rotate through various markets during the season. They enjoy getting to know many communities, and here’s where to find them this week:Larchmont – Saturday, Oct. 4th Calcutta Kitchens Hudson River Apiaries Trotta Foods Ossining – Saturday, Oct. 4th Croton-on-Hudson – Sunday, Oct. 5th Piermont – Sunday, Oct. 5th Bombay Emerald Chutney Company | ||||||||||||
Down to Earth Markets 173 Main Street Ossining, NY 10562 Phone: 914-923-4837 DowntoEarthMarkets.com |
Daily Archives: October 2, 2014
Foreclosure inventory down 32.8% | South Salem Real Estate
There were 45,000 completed foreclosures nationally, down from 58,000 in August 2013, a year-over-year decrease of 22.2%, according to the latest data from CoreLogic.
On a month-over-month basis, completed foreclosures were up slightly by 1.1% from the 44,000 reported in July 2014.
Before the housing crash, completed foreclosures averaged 21,000 per month nationwide between 2000 and 2006.
“Clearly there has been a large improvement in the market the last few years, but five years into the economic expansion the foreclosure inventory remains at nearly three times the normal level,” said Sam Khater, deputy chief economist at CoreLogic. “Since homeownership rates peaked in the second quarter of 2004, there have been 7 million completed foreclosures, which account for 15% of all mortgages.”
Completed foreclosures are an indication of the total number of homes actually lost to foreclosure. Since the financial crisis began in September 2008, there have been approximately 5.2 million completed foreclosures across the country.
As of August 2014, approximately 629,000 homes nationally were in some stage of foreclosure, known as the foreclosure inventory, compared to 936,000 in August 2013, a year-over-year decrease of 32.8%. The foreclosure inventory as of August 2014 made up 1.6% of all homes with a mortgage, compared to 2.4% in August 2013. The foreclosure inventory was down 2.6% from July 2014, representing 34 months of consecutive year-over-year declines.
“The number of foreclosures completed during the last 12 months is at the lowest level since November of 2007,” said Anand Nallathambi, president and CEO of CoreLogic. “At current foreclosure rates, the shadow inventory could fall below 500,000 units by year-end which could provide a solid boost to the recovery in housing in 2015.”
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http://www.housingwire.com/articles/31575-foreclosure-inventory-down-328-from-august-2013