Yes, you should follow safety-tested recipes when you’re doing home canning, but don’t let novice canners’ paranoia about botulism discourage you trying this time-honored food preservation method. Yes, there’s an outside chance you could poison yourself and your loved ones, but let’s put things in perspective. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a [...]
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Home canning probably won’t kill you
August 29th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Food preparation, local food
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Tomatoes, basil, brie, blueberries
August 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Food preparation, Food selection, local food, recipes
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.
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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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Yellow wax beans provide succulent basis for side dish
August 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Cooking for one, Food preparation, local food
This week’s CSA bag (from Rolling Prairie Farmer’s Alliance) included a pound or so of wax beans, a rarity in my many years of CSA subscribing. These wax beans were different from the ones I recall from childhood. My farmer grandparents always had a kitchen garden that included green beans and a few wax beans. [...]
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