One of my favorite meals is a quick dinner with rice and a frittata (the lazy man’s quiche….no crust). I’ve posted this before and it’s worth repeating. Makes dinner for two and lunch for two and even with the four dollar eggs I now feel compelled to buy ($4 per dozen that is) it works [...]
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 [...]
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No lettuce required for this purely garden salad. Tomatoes and cucumbers have been our most reliable (and hard to keep up with) producers this month. This salad gets through one cuke per person and a handful of cherry tomatoes. Our bigger sized tomatoes haven’t been ripening quickly and coming out mealy so these small guys [...]
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 [...]
As far as panel discussions go “Food for the Next Administration”, a panel put on by Agriculture in Metropolitan Regions, was a bit of a love-fest with leaders of food system reform. While this didn’t provide for a heated discussion they certainly covered intelligent ways of framing the principles of a healthy sustainable food system [...]
We have been tending our tomato plants with great anticipation lately as they are laden with green fruit. I think one of the dogs got through one patch and broke of a particularly loaded branch. To not see this potential go to waste I thought to finally try fried green tomatoes.
I sliced them up, dipped [...]
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. [...]
For months I have been bothered by this article on the NY Times blog “Freakenomics”. For the most part I think the authors do a great job of applying economic theory to decipher the randomness and contradictions of modern life, but in this one particular post I think they went a little far. They attempted [...]
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 [...]
Some nights the ingredients in the fridge and the harvest of the garden come together so well I can’t help but share.
The salad is a testament to the fact that growing your own food can really help expand personal tastes. As an adult I struggle to move beyond my initial childhood reaction to crunchy things [...]
