No recipes this week as I did a Super Bowl recipe roundup & link love post on Friday. I have updated it with more recipe links if you wanna take another looksie. Happy Reading! -Christina First link will go to Michael Kilpatrick. Who is Michael Kilpatrick? An up & coming farm owner, Kilpatrick Family Farm,…
Author: Christina
Finding her true calling, connecting people to their local foodshed, Christina is the Editor & Founder of From Scratch Club. At the homestead, she is the Chef de Cuisine, Master Baker & Head Food Preservationist. Always a supporter of local, sustainable, humane, whole foods and fair labor practices.
{recipe link love} SUPER BOWL PARTY 2011
will be this Sunday night…. {yes, Miles chewed off the tip…not a dog. sigh} Not for me! Hurray! Luckily my husband will be heading to the bar with his dude friends so I don’t have to deal. If you are not so lucky (full disclosure, I’m a super sports fan but I don’t wanna deal…
{photo diary} Sugar Cookies on a Snow Day
We had a snowstorm today. It was supposed to be gigantic. It still left a foot of snow + a half-foot from yesterday but still it wasn’t the 2+ feet of snowing-all-day event that the meteorologists were predicting. We needed a project for today…playdo animals- check! New track set-up on the train table- check! Large…
{soup swap} Chickpea Miso Soup
Editor’s Note: This is a post contains TWO recipes: how to make dashi, traditional Japanese Sea Broth and non-traditional miso soup. I must admit this post was hard to write with all the different processes happening; poaching chicken, making dashi, adding miso. I’m not a professional recipe writer. So if you have a question or…
{weekend reading} NATIONAL EDITION
Hey folks; Hope you liked my piece on Bittman’s move to end his “Minimalist” column to becoming a member of the Op-Ed pages & begin a new column for the NYT Magazine…My piece (and true confession) on Taco Bell should be coming later today or early this week. In the meantime, link galore. You will…
Goodbye Minimalist. Hello…
{Mr Bittman at mile 4 (?), Mohawk Hudson River Marathon, October 2010} …Food Policy Commentator. I don’t usually write an entire post on a weekend reading topic, but two items were of great interest this week and I felt they both deserved some exposition. First, the unfortunate but not surprising issue with Taco Bell’s “beef”…
{FSclub} Soup Swap Day 2011
When we began this club, our monthly meetings were all about sharing a food experience, but once the blog was launched the three hour meetings quickly became more about the blog; topics, theme weeks, recipes, generating readers, giveaways, guest contributors. Not a horrible thing, but something that can be discussed via email and not something…
{weekend reading} NATIONAL edition
Busy week in food-related news…I say this every week. It still amazes me, now that I concentrate my news topics to “food” how many stories there are in one week. Before I get to the linking bonanza there are two pieces of housekeeping to attend to: 1) One of my favorite cooking blogs, the kitchn,…
{snack time} Faux Nuts Two Ways
{drained and rinsed} This recipe obsession started months back when I was visiting my cousin and her family for a birthday party. I believe this was mid/late summer. There were a stack of old {now-defunct} Cookie magazines sitting neatly in a basket, next to the toilet, and I snagged one on my way out to…
{weekend reading} NATIONAL edition
What.a.week. My food project resolution post was featured on WordPress’ “Freshly Pressed” front page feature AND as the featured post in the food, travel and recipes tag pages. We received thousands of views and can barely keep up with all the positive feedback we’re getting (Thank you and welcome new readers!!!). Back in real life,…
{Dark Days & GIVEAWAY} Week 6
Editor’s Note: This is our fourth installment of a 4 1/2 month challenge, Dark Days, taken up by 88 blogs spanning the country, to eat one meal a week as local, sustainable, ethical and organic as possible. I’m talking gluten-free sweet potato gnocchi, my very own quart of canned tomatoes and some sautéed broccoli rabe….
{WNIMK} Whirley Poppin’ Magic
Editor’s Note: We have been lackluster at best with this so-called weekly post. Our last entry was Leslie’s spiced wine find at the beginning of December. Let’s blame the holidaze. Why not.; as we make another go at it. This time its serious. For any new readers (hello fellow WordPress bloggers) What’s New in My…
{New Year} Projects to Keep Me on My Toes!
I started this food group and blog to give me something tangible and productive outside of my work & family while also being relevant in my day-to-day life and feeding my passion of all things food, photography, cooking, community, politics and friendship. Food is everywhere and in our house, food is life or death. After…
{weekend reading} Weekday Edition 2011
Okay, so I pondered and reflected in yesterday’s weekend reading and now its time to get back to business at hand- current food-related goodies happening NOW! Not last November, that would be sooo 2010. This WR is very recipe heavy because honestly, post-holidaze & three birthdays (yup, me, my husband & my son all have…
