Both my husband and I are foodies, and both of us would love a chance to attend culinary school, just for the fun of it. We just can’t justify it because we’d never want to give up the hours required to run a restaurant well. But today I came across a “cookery school” on an [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Farm and cooking school meet in Ireland
Posted in Food, frugal living, tagged culinary school, Food, Ireland, recipes on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mussels: aromatics + wine + shellfish = dinner!
Posted in bread, Food, garlic, leeks, mussels, seafood, tagged cooking, dinner, environment, Food, photography, recipes, seafood on March 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Seafood, generally speaking, is good for us, but it turns out all of us can be pretty darn bad for seafood. Wild-caught shellfish from environmentally sustainable fisheries (preferably as local as possible) typically rates high on seafood sustainability lists. Most of these shellfishes are really quick to cook too, making them easy on the energy budget. [...]
Chervil: a cool-season herb with a blend of familiar flavors
Posted in gardening, herbs, organic gardening, salad, tagged chervil, dinner, family, Food, gardening, herbs, organic gardening, recipes on March 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Have you ever wanted an herb that could do double-duty to perk up your spring garden with tiny fern-like fronds and give you a nice herb too? You may want chervil. Chervil is also known as sweet cicely, and it’s a classic European herb, having originated in the British Isles. If I had to define [...]
Good Greens: Mustard: it’s not just for hotdogs
Posted in Food, gardening, greens, health, organic food, organic gardening, winter gardening, tagged dinner, Food, gardening, health, mustard greens, organic gardening, photography, recipes, salad, sandwiches on March 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Wait! Stay, while I move you beyond thinking about yellow mustard for your hotdogs or overgrown, overcooked, bitter, abused mustard greens and into the realm of mustard greens bursting with flavor and health. When I was a kid, my mother would send my sister and me to the garden to pick mustard greens–in high summer. [...]
Overeating Processed Foods? check for these key addictive ingredient combinations
Posted in Food, frugal living, health, tagged children, dinner, economy, environment, family, Food, health, healthy, recipes on March 26, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I made the mistake last week while I was house-bound after surgery of sending my husband to the local health food store to pick up some things that we needed. He came home with a few things that we almost never eat. I’m guessing he was thinking, “Hey, these are at the health food store, [...]
Homestead Hiatus
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged life on March 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Given that readership about our little homestead has been picking up steadily since the beginning of the year, when I started posting daily, I have done everything I could to avoid a hiatus. Unfortunately, after having been out of town from Wednesday through Sunday, I’m having surgery in about 36 hours, and I have not [...]
Chinookan hot pot: another dispatch from Portland
Posted in Cooking And Baking, Dutch oven, fish, Food, tagged family, Food, history, nature, photography, recipes on March 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Earlier this week I had a chance to visit the Cathlapotle Plankhouse, a reproduction of one of the many Chinookan plankhouses that Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery visited on their way to the Pacific Ocean. The Cathlapotle Plankhouse captures the spirit of the fascinating cedar, multi-family dwellings in which Chinookan people lived more than [...]
Eating out in Portland: Veritable Quandary
Posted in beets, chile, chocolate, dessert, Food, locavore, organic food, tagged dinner, environment, Food, Portland, recipes on March 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I generally avoid talking about food I eat off the homestead, but since I’ve been out of town since Wednesday, I can’t share any new recipes easily. Instead, I’d like to talk tonight about the dinner I had at a Portland restaurant called Veritable Quandary. I truly was in a quandary about what to order [...]
Why we need diversity in seed and plant sources
Posted in Food, frugal living, health, nature, organic food, organic gardening, tagged environment, Food, gardening, health, nature, organic gardening, politics on March 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Last summer, a major supplier of nursery plants, Bonnie’s, sent tomato plants infected with late blight to nurseries across the southern and eastern United States. We only had two Bonnie plants, but with our unusually wet summer, those two plants infected all of our other plants, seriously reducing our tomato yield and encouraging me to [...]
