On the off chance you’ve been dying to know what I’ve been up to, besides holiday-related stuff, I think I’m ready to show you now. As I think I previously mentioned, I have been working to develop a new site from which I’m hoping to make a little money. It’s called Homecooking Revival, and I […]
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Take a peek at new website; tell me what you think
December 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments · General, Healthy eating
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Sometimes life requires feeding things besides belly
November 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments · General
Circumstances have been conspiring against blogging—and cooking for that matter. The Rolling Prairie season has ended. The weather has been gorgeous and therefore demanding my time outdoors. I’ve been doing election campaign volunteer work during times I usually would be blogging. Nothing to do about the end of the CSA deliveries except to wait for […]
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Mushrooms seem to be everywhere
October 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments · General, local food
If you’re looking for mushroom eating and cooking advice, you’d better look elsewhere. I could take or leave mushrooms as food. But learning I had chanterelles in my front yard earlier this year raised my mushroom consciousness, so I thought I’d share with you examples of mushrooms available around my neighborhood, all shot since Sept. […]
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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Sustainability Network collects news of interest
August 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · General
If you aren’t on the mailing list for the Lawrence Sustainability Network, you really ought to sign up, at least if you’re interested in sustainability along with your food. The network doesn’t post its e-newsletters on its website, so if you want to keep up, you have to subscribe. If it hadn’t been for the […]
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Garden strategy: friends with green thumbs
July 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments · General
I’m supposed to write a garden update for my friends at Ethicurean.com. I’ll say this much: My flowers are looking pretty good. (OK, the composter in the foreground is a little inelegant, but it was the only good angle from which I could capture all the colors.) My new herbs? Not so much. The new […]