I’ve been super lazy about cooking lately, but my microwave broke and I haven’t gotten around to getting a new one yet. so this morning I cracked open my cupboard, freezer and the christopher drew by refrigerator and came out with this: 1 16-ounce can garbanzo beans, rinsed 1 16-ounce can diced roasted tomatoes about a quarter cup of roasted … Read more
In my regular regimen of reading food news, today I ended up discovering a Finnish food called mämmi. It started with reading about a study that showed adolescents’ intake of vitamin K could effect their long-term bone health. Vitamin K1 is present in leafy greens, and Vitamin K2 is present in fermented dairy and soy products, particularly cheese and natto. … Read more
As mentioned in a previous entry, mid-month was the major curb-shopping event in my town. It’s also known as “hippie Christmas” because the curb and dumpsters offer so many gifts, and I’m okay with that name even though I’m not a hippie. Renters who hate the idea of throwing away perfectly good stuff but don’t have time to get to … Read more
Had another garage sale this weekend. It was a neighborhood garage sale, and there was no rain, so traffic was better at this one than the last. But I made less money – about $40 total – although I had less to sell, too. I hadn’t been planning to make much money unless someone were to buy companion’s stereo set … Read more
I am really into home food preservation. I have an annually rotating stock of hundreds of jars of canned applesauce, canned pears, apple chutney, tomatillo salsa, jams, jellies, apple butters, tomatoes, tomato sauce and fruit juices. When I worked on a farm and had access to surplus vegetables, I also pressure canned lots of green beans, beets and soups. Every … Read more
I ran out of cherries to pick on Wednesday — at least, the sweeter ones. The tree with the more bitter cherries still had plenty, but I decided that it might be best not to pick them, as I then would feel obliged to juice them, and that could very well mean a most unpleasant drink. With no cherries to … Read more
Last week, I noticed a couple huge cherry trees on the edge of a park that on my route to work. The fruit hung down in racemes like chokecherries, and the ripe ones were very black. I had never seen a chokecherry tree that big (25 feet or so), plus the tree had rough and shaggy bark (chokecherry usually has … Read more
I was very excited a couple weeks ago when the black raspberries (aka black caps) began to ripen. They sell frozen black raspberries at Trader Joe’s for filthily cheap, but I generally like picking the local ones and, in any case, the local ones seem to have a slightly different and more complex flavor. So, the day after picking a … Read more
… but the black raspberries along the bike path have finally begun to ripen and it would have been a sin not to stop and eat them.”
Michelle Obama puts a vegetable garden in the White House lawn. At 1,100 square feet, it’s a lot bigger than anything I could handle, but apparently she’ll have help.