Jamie at Home
Has anyone else seen the new Jamie Oliver show called Jamie at Home? We’ve got full cable here at my mom’s place, so I’ve been enjoying watching the food channel on occasion, and this show is by far one of the best cooking shows I’ve …
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What’s in yer fridge? (and s’mores)
Quinn (aka Burdockboy) suggested in a comment on the previous post about our new fridge that someone should start “refrigerator tag”, where people post a photo of the inside of their fridge for all the world to see. Since I’d also been thinking that something …
Where have our farmers gone?
Sharon from over at Casaubon’s Book has written a great article about the importance of farmers and locally produced food. Here’s an excerpt: Wendell Berry points out that what we’ve done to our rural communities over the last 100 years is a form of colonialism. …
Climate Changes
I mentioned a couple of days ago that I watched An Inconvenient Truth over the holidays. Having read a fair amount on climate change already, most of the information didn’t come as a real surprise to me, but it did discuss a couple of things …
FDA Says Cloned Meat Safe to Eat – But Would We Want To?
The FDA has just announced that they consider the meat and milk from cloned animals to be safe for human consumption, and these products could be on supermarket shelves sometime in the not too distant future. Despite calls for labeling by consumer, food safety, and …
Stormy Weather Ahead
We’re sitting here tonight waiting for yet another major storm to hit the coast. According to the local news, we normally see about 2 major storms in an entire winter, but so far this year we’ve had 9, and it’s not even the new year …
15 Favorite Books
Katie started a meme on her blog a few days ago in order to scope out some new reading material. Since I’ve seen so many interesting books on the resulting lists, I thought I’d take part too. (In no particular order) 1. A Prayer for …
My Favorite Scones
I don’t think weekend breakfasts get much better than a batch of warm homemade scones alongside a nice hot cup of tea or coffee. I found a fantastic scone recipe in Joan Hassol’s Well Preserved recently, and it’s the perfect way to use up the …
Onion Marmalade
While reading my new favorite cookbook, The Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Herrmann Loomis, I spotted this recipe for Onion Marmalade (despite the name, it doesn’t actually contain any citrus peel). We are real lovers of onions around here (my son eats them on almost everything), …