Our food in 2010 seems to be following a color pattern…
In Nourishing Traditions, there is one instance that Sally Fallon gives a thumbs up to the increased globalization (and industrialization) of food and that is to the availability of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables year round, which insures that people will eat enough [...]
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 [...]
We had banked on having leftovers for many days after attending two Thanksgiving dinners (the strategy in visiting different families) and doggie bags from restaurant trips over the weekend when no one felt like cooking. We forgot to factor in how quickly those leftovers would disappear when we had days of people over around lunch [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Is this too obvious? Apparently not since the smart way to shop for food is to get more for you money. I compare unit prices too and want the best deal. I’ve just decided to incorporate external costs into this calculation. The quick run through is;how was it made, how did the production of this [...]
The Art of Simple Food (by Alice Waters) and Farmer John’s Cookbook; the real dirt of vegetables and my two favorite cookbooks and here’s why.
For the most part the best food for you, whole foods (grains, beans, vegetables etc) are affordable. There is much discussion about this- clearly there are some highly processed, crappy food [...]
