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.
Entries Tagged as 'local food'
‘Convenience’ doesn’t mean faster when it comes to home meals
August 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Food preparation, Food selection, Research, 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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Tip: Sign up for late season with CSA
August 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Cooking tips, local food
If you’d love to get CSA produce, but you didn’t sign up in time last spring, you just might want to see whether there are openings now for fall. You know how it goes. People lose interest, move, get sick or drop out for some other reason (whatever the activity), which makes room for someone [...]
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Summer bounty makes for easy, delicious eating
August 5th, 2007 · No Comments · local food
I had great food this weekend, but I didn’t do anything special. In fact, I managed to have at least three (depending on how you count) of my top five summer dishes. I had fresh, local cantaloupe, straight up, three times. I had sliced tomatoes straight up once. And I had ratatouille twice (and shared [...]
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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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