I love the idea of Meatless Mondays: to eat less meat, have one day of the week devoted to meatless meals. It makes it easy to plan for eating less meat, helps home cooks learn new vegetarian dishes, and even makes it easier to eat less meat during the rest of the week. There are [...]
Can these possibly be the same potato plants I wrote about 2 weeks ago? Those potatoes were just poking their heads above the ground for the first time. These are 8 inches tall and ready for hilling. (Potatoes need their stems covered with dirt as they get tall, to protect the baby taters from light.) [...]
It’s really and truly Spring now, and it’s garden time. It’s warm during the day, cool at night, and everything is green now. Even the trees all have leaves (thanks to our unseasonably warm March – which also means that my allergies kicked into gear early, they are now almost over, so everybody wins). Thanks [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, and my excuse is that I’ve been too busy to cook, and therefore not only too busy to blog, but haven’t had much to blog about. Nathan and I spent most of the past 2 weeks remodeling our bathroom – it took an entire weekend, plus evenings for [...]
A few months ago, Michael Pollan wrote an editorial in the NY Times urging Americans to cook more. Feminists called him out, claiming that this burden would inevitably fall on women rather than men, and called him sexist. I disagree – I think we do need to cook more, and both men and women should [...]
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Earlier this month, I spent a week in Austin for South By Southwest. It was my second time attending, and the conference is always amazing (for reasons that I won’t go into here, because they have very little to do with food). But I also love Austin itself. It’s quirky and fun, there’s lots of [...]
It’s been a tense week. Last Sunday, I started my first set of seeds for this year’s garden: tomatoes, tomatillos, and peppers. We put them in dirt, kept them nice and warm and wet, and waited. Nothing happened! For days! Nevermind that nothing was supposed to happen for days. Those seeds are certainly busy under [...]
The time for New Year’s resolutions has passed, you’ll tell me, but from our food’s perspective, the new year is right around the corner. Spring is already in the air. For food lovers, this is the exciting, difficult time when everything is growing, but just about nothing is ready to eat. It is the perfect [...]
Here’s yet another reason to support your small, local farm: large farms have a serious problem with manure. They stink, literally. They also stink for the environment, and the people living near them. Today’s Washington Post had a great article explaining the many issues with disposing of animal waste from factory farms. If you don’t [...]