Over the past few months I’ve changed my relationship with these sourdough beasties I’ve befriended to leaven and flavor my baked goods. I’ve both expanded the amount and variety of goods that I can make with them and I’ve let the little things be warm and active for longer periods. That is to say by [...]
This fall has been a hectic one but included the very fun task of making food for my friend who just had a first baby. Nursing moms (as well as pregnant ladies) are so fun to cook for because they eat a lions share, seem to especially enjoy eating, and really put that food to [...]
I realize that for a lot of people mayonnaise is a horrific subject for a photograph. But I made it and it’s delicious and it’s just an egg yolk and olive oil. Not so bad?
Homemade mayo now sits next to homemade salad dressing and is becoming one less processed packaged food we get pre-made. This [...]
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
As mentioned in my New Year’s post, we’ve started the adventure of making our food more active and getting as much of those slightly more processed foods from our own kitchen. Starting with a half gallon of raw milk on the kitchen table we aimed to make two things- whey (for future counter cultures) and [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The Well Blog on the New York Times posted an interview with Rachel Ray, the cooking show host and founder of a nonprofit that focuses on getting kids into healthy eating and home cooking. I think this is great, I really do. She operates in a great middle place between Slow Food foodies and On-The-Go-Americans. [...]
Sunday, September 14, 2008
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 [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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. [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
 (note the eggs should actually be beaten before going in, but I took artistic license)
Making pasta, I have now learned is not hard at all. It’s not convenient or fast, but it certainly isn’t hard. But guess what else it is? Cheap! Yes. Homemade pasta from local organic flour and local organic cage free eggs [...]
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 [...]
