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Category: Food
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Review: Bread has a Hero
Yes, bread has a hero. Reading this book, I was struck by a few things… ok, a whole bunch of things. Remember when I talked about a story having a hero to stand up and cheer for? And if you have been following along, the blog posts on Ebola, and Poverty, and how I said…
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To Market, to Market
Ah, Farmer’s Markets… where you pay too much for food of dubious provenance. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good farmer’s market, and I am all for supporting local growers. Having been one myself, I understand how much work it is to grow, weed, pick, haul, and sell… pricing to compete with the supermarket…
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Link Rodeo
Rounding up links of interest into the corral for you to peruse and try out… Here’s a fun question: what does coffee have in common with the Enlightenment and the American Revolution? Dave Freer muses on the books of old, and how heroes have changed since the days when he was a bright-eyed lad. He…
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Stepping Back in Time
Well, a little bit, anyway. Since my time travel has mostly been to pre-Revolutionary War days, and his to a Medieval society (even if one that never truly existed), taking a little detour to the 1950s was nothing. We spent most of our day visiting with the Folks in Kentucky, then headed for home,…
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Soup of the Day
It’s been cool and rainy this last week, somewhat unexpected in mid-July, when we are usually hankering for salads, watermelon, and ice cream to keep us cool, particularly in the evening. So I am thinking warming food, like a nice hot bowl of soup. I met friends at a Vietnamese restaurant this last week for…
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Uninspired
I think it’s that I’m not hungry this morning. I should be writing a blog about food, or a restaurant, but… Well, the last really great restaurant meal we ate was at the City Cafe in Chattanooga TN. We always go there when we get down to LibertyCon, they have the best food, and really…
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Glorious Gluten
Gluten has been getting a bad rap recently, as the new wave of fad dieting sweeps the land, and it’s all the rage to be allergic to gluten. The problem is, a lot of people don’t even know what gluten is, what it does, and why they think they can’t digest it is beyond me.…
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Jammin’ the Blues
And the red, purples… but I picked out the greens. I made jam last week. It was requested that I bring along a couple jars of my homemade bottled sunshine for the Barfly Breakfast, so it could be spread on toast and enjoyed. I’ve done this before, and it would be no problem, except… I…
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Coconuts and Plums
Which have nothing to do with one another, and I figure if I added Beef and Mushrooms to that title, I’d just make you all nervous. I made my first ever Coconut Cream Pie this week. I’ve made Coconut Custard before, but not the pie the way my dear first reader knows and loves. I…
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The Pickle Saga
Here’s an improbable tale: a yankee girl with an addiction to fried pickles. I’m not really a yankee, but I’ve never lived further south than Oregon for any length of time, and I last lived far south when I was 4, in Homestead, FL. So whence the passion for fried pickles and smoked meat? Well,…
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Baking Orgy
When I was much younger and more innocent that I can believe, looking back, my sister and I used to hold what we called baking orgies. About once a month, we’d spend practically the whole weekend making cookies, pies, bread, and whatever caught our fancy from the collection of cookbooks in the house (this was…