Although you can learn about canning and other preserving methods when the bounty is flowing, it’s easier to learn it in the off-season. Happily, the University of Missouri Extension offices in the Kansas City area are offering a series of classes on: Water-bath canning Pressure canning Freezing & dehydrating Pickling Not all classes are available […]
Entries from March 24th, 2009
Now’s the time to learn food preservation
March 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Food preparation, local food
Milk labeling bill passes; there’s still time
March 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Food in the news
Did you hear the one about the Kansas House approving a bill severely restricting dairies’ ability to tell consumers that they don’t use recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) on their cattle? No? No surprise. After the pro-drug lobby failed a year ago in the Kansas Senate, it apparently tried last fall with the state Agriculture […]
Yes, it’s time to speak up—again—on rBGH
March 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · General
Looks like our Kansas lawmakers again are wasting taxpayers’ time and money but seeking legislation to shelter dairies that use recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) to boost milk production. We’ve been here before. Enough already. Tell your lawmakers. The Center for Food Safety makes it easy.
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Bierochs provide change of pace, taste of tradition
March 16th, 2009 · Comments Off on Bierochs provide change of pace, taste of tradition · recipes
What do you do with ground beef when you don’t want hamburgers, meatballs, meatloaf or tacos? I suppose you could make shepherd’s pie or some such. I instead made bierochs (also spelled bierocks). This traditional food—a bun stuffed with a beef-onion-cabbage mixture—is familiar in rural Kansas, especially those settled by Volga Germans, according to some […]
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Roundup: Kansas culinary and other wonders
March 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Roundup
Kansas culinary wonders. Know any? If so, nominate them for inveterate Kansas promoter Marci Penner’s Eight Wonders of Kansas Cuisine competition. I’ll bet the eventual winners will include the Hays House (Council Grove), Brookville Hotel (Abilene) and Anchor Inn (Hutchinson; no website that I could find, but Keith Stokes’ site will work). What do you […]
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Fiber artist creative in the kitchen too
March 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books about food, recipes
Some people just seem to ooze creativity, and my online friend Joanne Seiff is one of them. Besides being an accomplished cook, she’s also a writer, blogger, knitter, spinner, knitwear designer and cook, and now she can add “author” to her titles. In her new book, Fiber Gathering, she blends her many talents. She writes […]