I forgot I had a potluck to attend last weekend, so I reached for an easy, reliable and always welcome recipe: Katharine Hepburn Brownies. You can find these brownies all over the Internet (at Patti Cakes, at Angelnina’s Cottage and The Gourmet Project, to name three). I found it in my Gourmet cookbook. You cannot, […]
Entries from September 30th, 2008
Pick a parcel of peppers and put ’em up
September 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Cooking tips, Food preparation, local food
What do you do when someone gives you nearly a peck of (unpickled) hot peppers like these? If you’re like me, you freeze them. (Of course, you could also pickle them.) I no doubt harmed their quality by letting them sit in the fridge for a week, but then I dug in. I washed them, […]
Apples, apples, apples, and thank goodness
September 26th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Farmers markets, Food selection, local food
The common wisdom is that the fruit trees in this region are making up this year for last year’s noncrop. Apple trees are no exception, sending out vast amounts of fruit, just as the pear trees and cherry trees and raspberry brambles did this year. Sample apples My first 2008 apples, as you may recall, […]
Local wines pleasantly surprise tasters
September 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · General
They came. They tasted. They were surprised and pleased. That’s the nutshell result of a group of friends’ tasting local wines. Kansas wines. Mostly Douglas County wines. (Kansas licenses several more wineries, too.) To recap, here are the wines we tasted and the order we tasted them in: Seyval. Holy-Field. $12.95. (In photo at right, […]
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Roundup: Growing, going, research
September 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Roundup: Growing, going, research · Roundup
Growing in Kansas. Commentator John Schlageck gives the rundown on Kansas’ ag statistics. (Pittsburg Sun) Food and fuel. The Agricultural Business Council of Kansas City is having a food and fuel forum on Oct. 23 (DomesticFuel.com) Food and research. The KC Star endorses a Johnson County, Kansas, sales tax to fund research that would include […]