Tag: slow food
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June 10, 2008 10:46 PM EDT --
As promised, here's the first of what I hope will be several recipes utilizing my new (fair-weather) best culinary friend, garlic scapes. For those of you who didn't see my earlier article, . . .
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January 20, 2008 01:57 AM EST --
Beer is a social activity as much as it is a brew. Most beers are based on 4 ingredients: malt (roasted barley), water, hops and yeast. So the taste of beer can vary widely depending upon the recipe. . . .
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June 11, 2008 06:16 PM EDT --
I've been hooked on farmers' markets ever since I spent five years living in Madison, Wisconsin, where the Dane County Farmers' Market takes up the entire square around the Capitol in downtown . . .
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August 14, 2006 05:57 PM EDT --
Beer Bread, Take II
(Note: This was originally posted on Seriously Good in November of 2005.)
Some months ago I made a loaf of beer quick bread. It was mighty tasty but had the drawback of all quick . . .
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September 23, 2006 02:34 PM EDT --
Teenage Bread --
But the bread… Sigh. It was nasty, soft, gummy stuff that stuck to the roof of my mouth without benefit of peanut butter. No, not that loaf in the picture, another, sadder loaf. . . .
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October 09, 2006 03:20 PM EDT --
I've been considering writing a book on picnics and have completed what I call a mockup for the TOC and first chapter. I'd like comments from anyone interested in food or writing. There is a . . .
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December 07, 2006 05:58 PM EST --
Today's Gather Poll was, "Do you agree with the ruling in New York to ban all trans-fats in restaurants?" For the 49 percent of respondents who answered, "Yes," I have a . . .
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December 29, 2008 10:55 PM EST --
Dinner for a Cold Winter Night: Pork Chop Casserole with Fennel and Apple
(c) Dorine Houston 2008, all rights reserved
It’s winter again, time to be thinking about those warming dinners . . .
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March 25, 2006 06:26 PM EST --
Pet Food?
Owning a sourdough starter is a lot like owning a cat: It doesn't require a lot of attention, but you can't completely ignore it either.
Although I love baking bread I avoided sourdough . . .
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April 04, 2006 08:05 PM EDT --
This is not something I wrote. It's part of one of those email letters that go round and round "please send this to 10 people who you think are old" kind of thing. But I thought . . .
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February 24, 2007 07:34 PM EST --
Thanks, Gather!
Brother Juniper's Bread Book
(Slow Rise as Method and Metaphor)
Peter Reinhart
*************** . . .
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March 08, 2007 10:04 AM EST --
A quick break from the childhood nutrition series, then back to that. I had to post an update on the following. Time magazine's cover article (COVER!) is on the issue of eating local versus big organic. . . .
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June 27, 2007 11:19 PM EDT --
Note to San Francisco foodies: when Slow Food hosts an event locally, do your best to go. If it features Italian wine, definitely go. If it also includes food from top local restaurateurs, immediately . . .
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August 14, 2007 04:33 PM EDT --
Two round orbs looked up at me with a questioning stare. I gazed downward at the small person tugging on my pant leg. Jiggly J, my niece, wanted to cook.
Jiggly earned her name from her unstoppable . . .
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April 12, 2006 07:55 PM EDT --
Ok, I'm sitting here at laptop heaven, glass of Reisling in hand (it was all that was left from the blueberry wine debauchery of the recent past) and waiting for a very delicious lasagna to bake itself . . .
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August 02, 2006 05:48 PM EDT --
So...this summer I am milking two very fine dairy goats. Twice a day I get a gallon of milk that I have been making into cheese. The summer began with several failures, but lately I have aged . . .
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September 19, 2006 07:52 PM EDT --
Deep in Our Genes --
Were you and I living on a farm in the South 100 years ago, we'd be giving thought about now to the upcoming hog-butchering. Here in the valleys of East Tennessee (it's . . .
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October 06, 2006 05:45 PM EDT --
Ritual --
Sunday I cooked -- really cooked -- for the first time since I moved into this new place.
After a week of TV dinners while I searched for and began organizing pots and pans, dishes and glasses, . . .
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February 01, 2007 09:55 AM EST --
It's the fennel seed that makes it. Italian sausage, that is. Fennel provides the single most distinctive flavor in Italian sausage and it's often described as anise-like. Perhaps so, but I don't . . .
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March 15, 2007 10:15 AM EDT --
Paisano sighed and said, "I still wonder about that boy."
My friend and I had just finished a bowl of lentil soup — a really great bowl of lentil soup that Paisano had made. He'd . . .
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