My digest fodder folder was getting pretty full. Here are some tidbits. This horse is beaten, but is it dead? Remember the farm bill? Yea, that big ugly bit of legislation that touches our diets in very real but often hidden ways? Well, the House and Senate conference committee is trying to sort out the […]
Entries from February 27th, 2008
Digest: A lot of cattle and a little bull
February 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Digest: A lot of cattle and a little bull · Digest, Farm Bill
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Not all experiments yield positive results, but recovery is possible
February 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments · General
I haven’t been in much of a cooking mood lately. (I’m blaming the weather.) So when I was the store on Sunday, I decided to pick up a couple of things I don’t ordinarily buy in hopes of being inspired. One of them was Beeler’s ground pork. After I got it home, I realized I […]
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Homemade pizza a winner
February 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Food preparation, recipes
Yesterday’s cooking event, happily, was making something new (although I think I’m inoculated against all kinds of food-borne bacteria after surviving my leftover leftovers), namely cheese pizza. “Homemade pizza,” per my nephew’s request. Yes, 2008 is year two of the great cook-with-the-kid-kin experiment in gift-giving. And this year, my nephew requested homemade pizza. I don’t […]
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Don’t try this with guests—unless you don’t want them to return
February 20th, 2008 · 5 Comments · General
Good evening, and welcome to Fun with Leftovers. Tonight we’ve taken a selection of leftovers, combined them and created, yes, more leftovers. It’s kind of like the so-called Amish Friendship Muffins. You know what I’m talking about: Somebody gives you a cup of batter and instructions, and the cup of batter turns into the muffin-batter […]
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Weird public food policies
February 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Food in the news
Did you see the one about making jail inmates’ diet healthier? How about the one where school lunch programs are the main recipients of meat from “downer” cattle that is being recalled? (Not that the recall is in any way meaningful.) And that’s not all that’s wrong with the school lunch program. Wouldn’t you think […]
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Grocery shopping grows complicated
February 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Environment, Food selection
Have you found that grocery shopping is trickier than it used to be? Sure is for me. I say that as someone who does not mind grocery shopping, at least as long as I can avoid it with the throngs on Saturdays and the geriatric set on Thursdays. (That’s the day after the grocery ads […]
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