Things are kinda slow in my kitchen and garden right now. So, in lieu of my usual highly engaging (ha!) content, I give you: the wordpress.com 2011 annual report for this blog. (And if you want to see how it compares with last year, here ya go.) Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway [...]
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2011 in Review
Posted in Blogs, Reading and Research on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Thanksgiving Leftovers
Posted in Reading and Research, Recipe, Vegetarian Friendly on November 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Do you still have Thanksgiving leftovers? If so, combat boredom with Mark Bittman’s suggestions for transforming Thanksgiving mainstays. Last night I used the last of my mashed potatoes to make something like Bittman’s garlic-rosemary potato fritters. Instead of garlic and rosemary, I used caramelized onions (which I cooked the night before to save time) and [...]
Basil Panna Cotta
Posted in Dairy, Reading and Research, Recipe, Sweets, Vegetarian Friendly on June 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Remember those creamsicles? While ideal for preserving individual portions, they didn’t work too well for my intended purpose: coffee creamer. For some reason, the fats from the cream floated to the top of the coffee, creating an unappetizing glassy layer on the surface and leaving a greasy residue on the lid of my to-go mug. [...]
Tallow Follow-Up
Posted in Fat, Health, Reading and Research on February 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In my earlier post about tallow, I mentioned Jennifer McLagan, a “nose to tail” chef and author who writes about the subject in her books Bones, Fat, and the forthcoming Odd Bits. I sent McLagan an e-mail, asking for her help with my suet/tallow conundrum. Here is her helpful response: Hello Tricia, From your photos I [...]
2010 in Review
Posted in Blogs, Reading and Research on January 9, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Please excuse the serious lack of activity around here. I’ve been keeping my new mother alive with champagne, spending some time eating and photographing snow peas (our only successful fall crop), stocking up the freezer with chicken stock, and eating a healthy dose of black-eyed peas for New Year’s. But I just haven’t gotten around [...]
Cook and Freeze
Posted in Media, Preservation, Reading and Research, Tools, tagged Cookbooks, Freezing on December 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I know I’m in good company when I say, if I don’t control myself, I could go crazy buying cookbooks. So, I have a mostly no-purchasing policy. Mostly. I bought two cookbooks for myself in the last year or so, and they were both purchased last month. I borrowed Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman and Brian [...]
Stuffing/Dressing
Posted in Community, Reading and Research on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tell me more about your dressing: do you include boiled eggs, giblets, seafood, nuts? In your mind, what are the regional variations in stuffing ingredients? Even though I know the distinction between stuffing and dressing, I still find myself using the terms interchangeably. Is that a southern thing? Or perhaps it’s a product of the [...]
Some Reading
Posted in In the News, Reading and Research on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Does this mean real, clean food is mainstream? Katie Couric Oprah Monsanto mucks around with eggplant and the Indian environment minister says “no,” at least for now. The minister imposed a six-month moratorium on the launch bt brinjal, which would be the first GM vegetable. I was confused at first, but I guess technically corn [...]
Slant and Sausage
Posted in Big Food, Blogs, In the News, Meat, Media, Reading and Research, Status Quo on November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Do you subscribe to Meatingplace headlines and blog updates? I can’t remember how I came across the site, but I continue to read and get pissed; read, get pissed. It’s my education on inserting bias and “fast, flexible, fully automated sausage production.” The industry blogs are even more fun, where bloggers like Yvonne Vizzier Thaxton [...]
Speaking of indoctrination…
Posted in Events, Health, Media, Reading and Research, Status Quo on September 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Don’t ya just love all this “indoctrination” talk stirred up because—gasp!—the President seeks to directly engage schoolchildren? Let us focus on some legitimate indoctrination: “By the year 2000, the Centers for Disease Control estimated that one in five schools participating in the National School Lunch Program had brand-name fast foods in their lunchrooms.” —School Lunch [...]
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