Pecan Sables, a cookie from the Gourmet Cookbook, are delicious but don’t look too good. I made them in a personal challenge to create a potluck dish from things I already had in my kitchen.
Entries Tagged as 'Food selection'
These cookies taste better than they look
May 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Food preparation, Food selection, recipes
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Can’t take climate out of food production
May 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Environment, Food selection
I didn’t start this blog to talk about climate change, but it seems almost impossible to talk about fresh food these days without talking about climate. There are the obvious and oft-mentioned concerns about global warming, although the EPA says the U.S. food supply will probably be fine. (Here’s just one of thousands of accounts [...]
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Oh, joy! CSA delivers the goods
May 8th, 2007 · No Comments · Food selection, local food
Got my first CSA bag of the season yesterday, and it was a delight: gorgeous lettuce, asparagus, spinach and rhubarb were the highlights for me. I was worried whether the farmers would have anything to offer, though. The rainfall over the weekend ranged from 3 to 8 inches (based on my highly informal survey), and [...]
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In praise of Smart Chickens
May 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Food selection
There’s a relatively new bird on the block, the Smart Chicken. Smart Chicken, produced by MBA Poultry of Nebraska, first caught my eye at the supermarket a year or two ago because (a) it wasn’t produced by Tyson and (b) it’s label reported a couple of very positive attributes: it was fed only vegetable feed; [...]
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Lawrence has wealth of local food sources
May 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Food selection, local food
Here’s Kansas in the middle of the United States. We are ever so lucky here in Lawrence (see red dot below in Kansas) as far as our access to fresh, local food. Not only does the Lawrence Farmers Market have a Saturday morning market, as is common in towns and cities across the country, but [...]
Tip: Grow your own herbs
April 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Cooking tips, Food selection, General
Any food lover knows that fresh herbs just taste better than dried ones, but the fresh ones are expensive and often require buying a lot more than you want. What to do? Grow you own. The easiest way to grow them is to take a trip to the garden center and buy little plants already [...]
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