The Goods Are Odd

The poster dish for the concept of “a little goes a long way” good soup is something to master in any effort to live mind to mouth. While the dish can conjure up Dickensian “please sir may I have more” poor houses, depression era or homeless shelter soup lines, and scenes of poor families boiling [...]

Though we continue to buy a quart of raw milk each week and use butter in (many) small doses we have generally been cutting out dairy, like most adults dairy doesn’t always agree as a diet fixture. So we’re exploring delicious dishes with dairy moderation or omission in mind. (Which, incidentally, saves on the [...]

a batch of 72 cent fresh pasta, two under-two-dollar sausages and an onion from the store plus beautiful veggies from our family’s garden makes a colorful dinner of nominal cost. These sauteed green beans are a regular dish at family dinners and are super. This was my first attempt and it was pretty fool proof. [...]

Our garden is providing a higher proportion of our food each week. As I’ve mentioned before its only been in my recent adulthood that I have managed to get myself to get an adequate daily serving of fruits and veggies. Figuring out dishes I like where I can really pack in the variety of vegetables [...]

From the first time I made zucchini fritters last summer I knew I would be hooked on endless variations. Zuc season is now here and the fritters fry again.
With already a couple batches made, I wanted to change things up. Not just with the veggies involved, which I did, but with the overall texture. The [...]