With fresh produce and good recipe selection, I made a delicious meal with almost no cooking. The uncooked pasta sauce, primarily of tomatoes, basil and brie, led the menu. Dessert was blueberry sorbet made in a zipper-lock freezer bag and ANZAC biscuits scaled back to one toaster oven pan full.
Entries from August 13th, 2007
Tomatoes, basil, brie, blueberries
August 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Food preparation, Food selection, local food, recipes
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‘Convenience’ doesn’t mean faster when it comes to home meals
August 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Food preparation, Food selection, Research, local food
A UCLA study finds that convenience foods don’t put food on the table faster, but the apparent preference for “food kits” that people buy may suggest local growers could try food kits, too. By assembling ingredients for dishes plus recipes at the farm stand, maybe local growers could sell more and people could eat more good, fresh, local food.
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No-cook meals 2: sandwiches, soups
August 9th, 2007 · No Comments · Food preparation, Healthy eating, local food, recipes
Another hot day, another day for no-cook meals. Although I’m not a huge sandwich fan, this weather calls for things that don’t require cooking, and most sandwiches fill the bill. Cold sandwiches Sandwiches don’t have to be boring, and they don’t have to be deli meats slapped between a couple of pieces of gooshy bread. [...]
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No-cook meals best in summer heat
August 8th, 2007 · No Comments · Food preparation, Healthy eating, local food, recipes
When it’s too hot to cook but not to eat, no-cook meals fill the bill. Here are ideas for main-dish salads, and tomorrow we’ll have ideas for no-cook sandwiches and soups.
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Tip: Sign up for late season with CSA
August 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Cooking tips, local food
If you’d love to get CSA produce, but you didn’t sign up in time last spring, you just might want to see whether there are openings now for fall. You know how it goes. People lose interest, move, get sick or drop out for some other reason (whatever the activity), which makes room for someone [...]
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Personal story clarifies law’s significance
August 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Farm Bill, General
Anthony Flaccavento, a Virginia farmer, tells the story of how he and others in his tobacco country area have become organic farmers of food, thanks in part to a government grant. He tells his story in Sunday’s Washington Post in a letter titled, “Hurting a Small Farm Near You.” His few short paragraphs sums up [...]
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