Cold temps signal soup time, which means it’s finally time to put some of my locally grown butternut squash to work in my favorite butternut squash soup. It’s delicious, colorful, fairly teeming with vitamins and almost certainly low cal, although I don’t have a nutritional analysis. The only part I’m not crazy about is peeling [...]
Entries Tagged as 'local food'
Last harvest, and looking to winter
November 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · local food
Picked up my last bag of the season from Rolling Prairie Farmer’s Alliance this week. As usual, the produce is (are?) things of beauty. Seems as though the peppers were late in coming this year (which would be understandable considering our late spring freeze and rain) , but they’ve been plentiful at the end. The [...]
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Herbs come in for the winter
October 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Food selection, General, local food, recipes
On the expectation of frost, I brought my potted herbs in Saturday night. It isn’t a huge collection—rosemary and bay laurel—but they’re wonderful to have around. I gave up the rest of my herb growing years ago, as encroaching shade and the appearance of herbs in my Rolling Prairie bag made the effort largely wasted. [...]
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Industrial wins consistency contest
October 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Food selection, Research, local food
There’s one advantage that the industrial tomato has over the homegrown variety—consistency, albeit tasteless, colorless consistency. Turns out the same is true for milk, among other foods. We humans love consistency. How else to explain the proliferation of chains? Especially in this mobile world, we like knowing that if we buy coffee at Starbucks on [...]
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KC Market gets cookbook treatment
October 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments · local food, recipes
The City Market in Kansas City, Mo., the area’s oldest (to my knowledge) ongoing farmers market, marked 150 years this year, and a local cookbook honors the occasion and the goods sold at the market. Julienne Gehrer—an avid cook, Hallmark Cards editor and entrepreneur—has written In Season: Cooking Fresh from the Kansas City Farmers’ Market, [...]
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‘Pickled’ turnips a good option
October 18th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Food preparation, local food, recipes
Thanks to Kei‘s recent suggestion, I had an acceptable turnip experience this week. On a comment to my “Calling all turnip lovers” post, she suggested a method of preparing little turnips that she called pickling. I’m not sure her method (salt, cover, weight, wait) technically qualifies as pickling, and I’m sure the food safety folks [...]
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