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,…
Tag: Recipes
{recipe} Easier is Healthier with Rice Crust Quiche
I have to credit my old landlady with this recipe idea (to clarify, she’s not old, but did used to be my landlady). She suggested making quiche with a rice crust instead of buying or making a flour crust and, considering this makes the quiche both more nutritious and much easier to make, I haven’t…
{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…
{Dark Days} Week 9: Cooking in LA?
Editor’s Note: This is the ninth week of a 4 1/2 month challenge, Dark Days, a pledge taken by 88 blogs spanning the country, to eat one meal a week as sustainable, organic, local and ethical possible. – Christina ——————————– I feel like I really blew it on this Dark Days challenge. Here I am…
{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…
{WNIMKW} Tea, Tea, Everywhere is Tea!
Editor’s Note: What’s New in My Kitchen Wednesdays, is a weekly series where we weave a personal story with a review of a beloved or new “item” in our kitchen, in our glass or on our plate. -Christina {tins-o-tea and mark bittman cookbooks….perfect together} Tea is not really new to my kitchen, but more of…
{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”…
{how you do it} NOW is the Time to Plan Your Garden
Editor’s Note: Please enjoy Dianna’s third installment of her monthly {How You Do It} series. Don’t miss this extremely informative post on planning a ‘tomato sauce’ garden through the eyes of the “Community Share Cropping” system Dianna and her husband, Michael, created with their network of friends. Oh, and she shares a terrific tomato sauce…
{travel} California Lovin’
Editor’s Note: Leslie and her family were very lucky to escape Upstate’s winter weather, -20 degrees a few days ago, for the sunnier, warmer climate of Los Angeles, CA. She will be rubbing our faces in it reporting from the West Coast during her one-month stay.-Christina So, here I am on the West coast, living…
{Dark Days} Week 8: Soup by Trial & Error
Editor’s Note: This is the eighth week of a 4 1/2 month challenge, Dark Days, a pledge taken by 88 blogs spanning the country, to eat one meal a week as sustainable, organic, local and ethical possible. – Christina The more I have thought about possible meals for the Dark Days Challenge, the more I…
{WNIMK} Herbs In a Bathtub
Editor’s Note: What’s New in My Kitchen Wednesdays, is a weekly series where we weave a personal story with a review of a beloved or new “item” in our kitchen, in our glass or on our plate. -Christina Herbs and a bathtub, a perfect combo. The past several weeks the girls have been begging me…
{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,…
