The menu challenge: Come up with a meal that could be prepared mostly in advance so as to be served at an uncertain time to guests who included a person who can’t tolerate gluten, eggs or dairy. The menu decision: Chicken Marbella from the The Silver Palate Cookbook; Baked Risotto with Asparagus, Spinach and Parmesan, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Food selection'
Challenging menu requirements result in winning, flextime meal
March 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Food selection
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Grocery shopping grows complicated
February 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Environment, Food selection
Have you found that grocery shopping is trickier than it used to be? Sure is for me. I say that as someone who does not mind grocery shopping, at least as long as I can avoid it with the throngs on Saturdays and the geriatric set on Thursdays. (That’s the day after the grocery ads [...]
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Kansas Legislature joins list of those who prefer consumers stay ignorant
February 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Food selection
Yes, members of the Kansas Legislature have joined the esteemed lawmakers or regulators in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio who want to spare their citizens the challenge of too much information. Specifically, they want to keep consumers ignorant of whether the milk they’re drinking comes from cows not dosed with recombinant bovine growth hormone, rBGH, which [...]
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Casbah will be interesting to watch
February 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Food selection, local food
The Casbah Market got some local ink, and now here’s my promised two cents, based on a single, brief visit and discussions with a couple of friends. The good news — The owners have done a good job transforming the Casbah space (even though it meant the end of an architectural aspect of some personal [...]
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Weather’s great for nonlocal foods
January 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Food selection, local food
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about food—particularly local food—and weather, as the last week or so has given us temperatures in the teens and in the 60s, sunshine, rain, ice and snow. Local is the big word in food trends these days, and for good reason. Our food system has gotten out of whack [...]
Talking turkey some more
December 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Food preparation, Food selection, local food
Now, having eaten some turkey leftovers (and inspired by the scent of the turkey carcass simmering in my stock pot along with onion, garlic, celery, carrot, parsnip, some herbs), I am prepared to talk a little more in depth about the taste and texture of the pastured turkey we had for Christmas. I’m glad I [...]
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