Any food lover knows that fresh herbs just taste better than dried ones, but the fresh ones are expensive and often require buying a lot more than you want. What to do? Grow you own.
The easiest way to grow them is to take a trip to the garden center and buy little plants already started. [...]
Entries from April 2007
Tip: Grow your own herbs
April 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Cooking tips, Food selection, General
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The cooking-convenience conundrum
April 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Food preparation, Food selection, Healthy eating
While I adore produce, and especially the locally grown variety, people hoping to improve Americans’ diets seem largely to ignore that lots of people don’t cook much any more. And until we do something about that, all the calls for more fruits and vegetables and more locally produced food are going to make only an [...]
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Safe food supply under siege
April 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Environment, Food selection, General
In the recent past, “food safety” meant taking fairly simple steps–washing hands, washing food, keeping hot foods hot and cold foods cold. Nowadays, though, we’re hearing more and more about food that can’t be made safe by these steps.
Congress has finally gotten into the act. To quote from a Reuters report on contaminated food (whose [...]
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Basic recipes lay the foundation
April 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Cooking for one, Food preparation, Food selection, Healthy eating
When I signed up for the Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance’s subscription produce program eleven years ago, I was enthusiastic about eating locally grown, organic (almost always) produce. I discovered, though, that I needed to expand the ways in which I typically used produce in the kitchen if I had any hope of using all the [...]
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Eating local goes mainstream
April 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Environment, Food selection, local food
The trend of eating locally produced food seems to have begun somewhere around 2000, and its appearance on the cover of Time magazine last month as “Eating Better Than Organic” makes clear that the concept has gone mainstream. Although most of us can’t eat like a Californian when basing our diet on local foods, we [...]
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Fresh asparagus makes for easy appetizer
April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · Recipes
Among the many great things about asparagus are that it cooks quickly and that it’s good hot or cold. The following appetizer ideas make quick work of your spring appetizers.
First, prep the asparagus: Choose firm, fresh asparagus with tight heads. Wash. Snap off woody end. Pare away lower skin, if desired. (It’s prettier that [...]
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