Tag: slow food
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A Mole in my Kitchen
No, not a spying underground creature, although I got jokes as I was posting process photos when I forgot to put the accent over that e. I mean the very special Mexican sauce, from toasted dried chilies, seeds, and chocolate. When I hear the term ‘slow food’ molé is what comes immediately to my mind.…
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Easy-Peasy Ciabatta Bread
I needed a bread for an ETWYRT recipe, and it’s been a while since I made this, but it’s so good. And it’s super easy to make up, it just takes a while. This is a bread that can take two days to make, or you can do it in five hours. Most of that…
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Eat This While you Read That: Amanda S Green
Finally, after a day of cooking, I can present the post and pictures! I started out this morning by making the stock for the chicken and dumplings, which recipe you can find here. Amanda S Green, one of my favorite authors, who also writes as Sam Schall if you like space opera, was good enough…
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Making Stock of Things
I’m going to blog a little differently today, as I am looking outside at 4-5 fresh fallen inches of snow, and more coming down on that. In addition to the ‘you ARE staying home today’ message this sends, I have had a very busy week in which I did not cook. Well, yes, there was…
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Beautiful America: Slow Food
America has a global reputation for being the land of fast food. Sure, we all do it. Life is a whirl, and sometimes you just can’t spend the time to create something truly good. But I’ve made and eaten some memorable meals over the years, with my family and loved ones. I think those memories…
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Slow Food With Juliet
Juliet, my eleven-year old daughter, bought a huge parsnip at the winter farmer’s market with her own money. She came back to me brandishing this white war club and hollering, “Look how big it is! It was only two dollars. I love parsnips, can we make soup?” It came home with us, went in the…