Weekend: No Knead Bread
SOLV Volunteer Appreciation: Sunset | One of many events attended recently.
Let's let these beautifully perfect apples represent everything else going on.
The Busyness
Tag Archives: gardening
Cooking Is Not Hard
Yesterday, I started talking about cooking in our Culture of Food. I wanted to discuss how diverse we are and how that cultural diversity has contributed to some food confusion. Then, compound that with busier lives — I can see why I have parents who think they can’t cook. I’ve said this before, so if I sound like a broken record, do forgive me, but I learned that cooking is relatively easy with two keys. These worked for me, and I hope they work for someone else.
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Reading Photos
Photos Reading Michael Ruhlman America: Too Stupid to Cook America: Too Stupid to Cook, Part II The No Nitrate Debate Michael Pollan Omnivore’s Dilemma Pondering Scientific Method Plum Cake Nourishing Traditions Weston A Price Foundation Celiac Disease Gluten intolerance Hives Autoimmune
Wacky, Wild Weather
I am sitting here, typing this, while the boys are napping. My computer is telling me it’s 81 degrees outside. On the other side of this large continent, Hurricane Irene hovers over North Carolina. A rare hurricane that is slated to travel the entire eastern seaboard. Washington D.C. and Colorado both had 5.x earthquakes on the same day, a few … Continue Reading →
Packaged Dinners
If you’re in the City of Portland, take the Bureau of Planning & Sustainability Survey. You have until August 29th. Tell them they are going in the wrong direction with many of their ideas, especially in regards to CSAs & Buying Clubs. They claim the purpose is to expand access, but all they are offering is restrictions. How do restrictions really expand access? http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?c=53834 Continue Reading →
An Open Letter on Food Security
Nary a day goes by where we don’t hear about another food recall. These food recalls largely involve large industrial food complexes, like confined animal feed operations. I don’t buy from those operations. I buy directly from the farmer. My family eats fairly locally and seasonally. We learn how to preserve our food and make things from scratch, like bread — a lot like my grandparents learned post World War II. We develop relationships with our farmers, our distributors, our producers of the food we eat. We do this to increase our food security. We know where our food comes from. We visit the farms. We know the names of our farmers’ children. We are invested in them, and they are invested in us. Continue Reading →
Handpicked Pastoral Adjectives
I’m reading Omnivore’s Dilemma. Finally. In it, Pollen coins the term “Supermarket Pastoral” as a way to describe the literature we find in supermarkets, like Whole Foods. I think we can credit sustainability and this movement for great leaps and bounds when it moves into the regular aisles and ads of the grocery store. Continue Reading →
In Season
Patterns forgotten are patterns found. Like a lost love waiting an eager embrace. My family eats in season again (mostly). I put in my produce order. Greens and beans from one source, and tropical fruits and refrigerated apples from another. I know by the price and size of the case that the apples will be small and plentiful, but also … Continue Reading →