Green eggs (no ham). An outfit in Missouri is doing large-scale production of eggs from pastured chicken, and that’s something to crow about. (KC Star) Shrinking food print. Three questions can lead to greener eating. (KC Star) Osage oranges. Kate Will celebrates her picnic spot in Osage County in the shade of hedge trees, aka […]
Entries from July 31st, 2008
Roundup: Green eggs, green eating
July 31st, 2008 · Comments Off on Roundup: Green eggs, green eating · Environment, Food in the news, local food, Roundup
Rule-breaking comes with pickles and jars
July 30th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Food preparation, Tools
Home canning has enough rules to fill a peck of pickled peppers, which is probably why: Most canning seems to be done by people who learned it from their elders. Most canners break the rules. I arrived at those conclusions after years of interviewing home cooks, including some who canned. They included individuals who: Never […]
Preserving apples, part 2: frozen slices
July 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on Preserving apples, part 2: frozen slices · Cooking for one, Cooking tips, Environment, Food preparation, recipes
If I knew then what I know now, I probably wouldn’t have undertaken this exercise in freezing apples. But this is how we learn, right? It started because I wasn’t of a mind to turn on the oven, so I decided to prep half my apples, freeze them and turn them into pie at some […]
Garden strategy: friends with green thumbs
July 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments · General
I’m supposed to write a garden update for my friends at Ethicurean.com. I’ll say this much: My flowers are looking pretty good. (OK, the composter in the foreground is a little inelegant, but it was the only good angle from which I could capture all the colors.) My new herbs? Not so much. The new […]
Preserving apples, part 1: getting saucy
July 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Food preparation, recipes
I finally got around to those apples, and my second adventure in food preservation for the year. (The dried mint was the first.) Seeing as I prefer to do things the hard way, I decided to turn some of the apples into applesauce and prep the rest for future pie-baking. Turns out I had a […]
Papalo (pipicha/pepiche?) has powerful flavor
July 25th, 2008 · 30 Comments · Food selection, local food
So I said to the guy at the CSA pickup, “Got any cilantro?” and he says, “try this, papalo, it’s sort of like cilantro.” At least I think he said papalo. I wasn’t taking notes, and I should know by now always to take notes if I want to remember anything. He might have said […]
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