Monthly Archives: February 2011

[98] Broccoli Noodles with Garlic and Soy

Cover of The Everything Thai Cookbook by Jennifer Malott Kotylo

So, awhile back, my dear friend “Jen”:http://antijenicdrift.blogspot.com/ commented that she wished there were more recipes made from a wider variety of books. She felt that it was interesting to read about what books we had, and why, but she wanted to see what we were cooking out of them!

Well, I’m not going to be able to satisfy her curiosity for all our cookbooks (see “the Dahl cookbook”:http://metacookbook.com/permalink/roald-dahls-revolting-recipes.html) but it did nudge me to go back and check out cookbooks we may STILL not have cracked, nearly nine months into this challenge. I found this one, and found that I’d mentioned at least two recipes I wanted to eat pretty much instantly, so I went to go make one or the other. Only to discover that I didn’t have the ingredients and couldn’t get them for months.… Continue reading →

[97] Boneless Prime Rib for a Small Crowd

How to Cook Everything, by Mark Bittman

Bill and I have two farms we tend to buy meat from at “Green City Market.”:http://www.greencitymarket.org/index.asp One I’ve mentioned in passing several times, is “Meadow Haven Farm.”:http://www.meadowhavenfarm.com/ While they have beef, we tend to purchase from them mostly poultry and pork. In fact, I think we’ve never purchased beef from Meadow Haven.

The farm we get our beef from, generally, is “Heartland Meats.”:http://www.heartlandmeats.com/ Now, we don’t buy it explicitly because it tastes better. We have, in fact, not tried most of the other vendors’ beef. We end up buying it from Heartland because it is pretty darn good, and because we managed to form a relationship with them, albeit “just” buyer and seller, long before we connected with any of the other farmers.… Continue reading →

A short post (maybe) on Edible Institute 2011

By having to wait until Wednesday to remark on this, I am definitely one of the latest people to comment on the conference. I may, in fact, be the latest. In any event, I still wanted to share some thoughts here.

I especially wanted to see Dr. Joan Gussow’s keynote speech and Dr. Gary Nabhan’s closing remarks of the first day. I figured I’d learn a lot from everything in between and everything the next day, but I was looking forward to those two as highlights.

Dr. Gussow’s speech was quite good. She touched on her experience with becoming a nutritionist, and being the only one in her field that focused more on how food was being produced than what was in it. That didn’t win her a lot of friends, as you can imagine.… Continue reading →

Hi There!

As you all know, I spent the weekend in Santa Barbara for the food conference. I then traveled on to San Francisco to visit a friend. I was supposed to fly back to Chicago this morning. But, as you can imagine, I’ve been delayed. The hope is that I will end up back in Chicago tomorrow. I certainly hope so, as I miss my kitchen!

I haven’t, however, had internet access beyond my phone until today. Which is good for my 140 characters or less twittering, but it doesn’t really lend itself to navigating the blog or posting.

Expect to see a few more posts coming down the line soon, now that I’m more connected again. Thanks for your patience.… Continue reading →