Posted in General on October 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just a few tips for islanders:
Persephone Farms has heritage turkeys available for order for November or December. If you haven’t made arrangements for your holiday bird yet, what an opportunity! Contact Louisa at: 360.621.8949 .
Storage boxes for your winter hoarding are also available from Persephone right now. They include:
- 5 pounds of rose fingerlings
-5 pounds [...]
Posted in Books, General, Recipes, Restaurants, tagged catsup, food, french fries, ketchup, recipe, skillet street food, The Original Hot Dog Shop, tomatoes on August 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I have been musing about the idea of gourmet ketchup for too many years now.
It probably started in a college eatery in Pittsburgh, the Original Hot Dog Shop. Students called it the “The O” and a large fry was literally the entire frier basked dumped over an ironically small paper basket. These fries were frequently [...]
Posted in General on August 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Green beans are one of my favorite summer veggies. I can eat a heap of them just raw. I like to cook these lovely Romano beans, though, as they’re a little bit tougher. They have a deep green bean flavor which will add to this warm summer ’salad.’
4 ears corn
1 lb. Romano beans (flat, large [...]
Posted in General, Recipes, tagged breakfast, crumpet, egg, flour, food, recipe on June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This little recipe is just further proof that you don’t need many ingredients to make something with a lot of flavor. Crumpets are a good vehicle for jam, go well
with a farm fresh egg, or will make your friends smile when you show up for a road trip with a basket of them. Plan your [...]
Posted in General, Rants, Restaurants, tagged eating out, food, ingredients, local food, restaurant on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This blog is about eating close to home, but most Americans eat out – in fact, many rarely cook. Despite all of our personal efforts at home, modern life sometimes dictates that we eat out too. Fortunately, restaurants are beginning to engage in a dialog with their customers about where the food on their menu [...]
Posted in Adventures, General, Recipes, tagged food, Kielbasa, Knackwurst, local meat, pork, recipe, sausage, sausage making on January 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It was an ambitious project, in many ways an overly ambitious project: 25 pounds of pig, 4 willing friends and a well-stocked home kitchen. But after having made fifteen pounds of fresh sausage and enjoying the fruits of our labor, we felt the satisfaction of an excellent meal well earned. The coming days [...]
