Baked risotto with spinach and asparagus makes an easy, delicious spring dish. Recipe is a favorite, adapted from Patricia Wells’s version in the Trattoria cookbook.
Entries from May 10th, 2007
Hope you like the new look
May 10th, 2007 · No Comments · General
As you will see, I’ve changed the look of foodperson.com to make it more colorful-more appetizing, shall we say. If you have any thoughts on it, I’ll love to hear them. The look also includes a spam-protection space in the comments area. I’ve added it and another, invisible-to-you “plug-in” that allows you to post comments [...]
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Can’t take climate out of food production
May 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Environment, Food selection
I didn’t start this blog to talk about climate change, but it seems almost impossible to talk about fresh food these days without talking about climate. There are the obvious and oft-mentioned concerns about global warming, although the EPA says the U.S. food supply will probably be fine. (Here’s just one of thousands of accounts [...]
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Oh, joy! CSA delivers the goods
May 8th, 2007 · No Comments · Food selection, local food
Got my first CSA bag of the season yesterday, and it was a delight: gorgeous lettuce, asparagus, spinach and rhubarb were the highlights for me. I was worried whether the farmers would have anything to offer, though. The rainfall over the weekend ranged from 3 to 8 inches (based on my highly informal survey), and [...]
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Tip: Roast a chicken
May 7th, 2007 · No Comments · Cooking tips, Food preparation, recipes
Roast chicken the world’s easiest main dish to make, but these days you’ll be celebrated as a marvelous cook if you put one on the table. You can read a lot of semi-complicated recipes, but essentially this is all you need to do: Buy a whole Smart Chicken. (Among its other joys, it is packaged [...]
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In praise of Smart Chickens
May 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Food selection
There’s a relatively new bird on the block, the Smart Chicken. Smart Chicken, produced by MBA Poultry of Nebraska, first caught my eye at the supermarket a year or two ago because (a) it wasn’t produced by Tyson and (b) it’s label reported a couple of very positive attributes: it was fed only vegetable feed; [...]
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