As an avid reader of “foodie” blogs, I run across articles like this one all the time, and I’m really not sure why they even exist. How hard is it to not waste food, particularly if you like food enough to read a food blog?
Everyone occasionally has a few leftovers or some fresh herbs that [...]
On (Not) Wasting Food
Christmas Dinner
Christmas is only a week away, so now my thoughts turn to food, of course. This year I am cooking Yuletide dinner for 8-10 people and trotting out my French cookery skills to (hopefully) wow our guests.
Inspired by the work of Marvin Woods with African-American Gullah cooking, I have been playing around for some time [...]
Daily Dining
Daily Dining
Food on the brain today as the planning of the 2008 garden swings into high gear. Compost is cooking away, the plots are laid out (we’re using Square Foot) this time, and the long list of crops is in hand. We have also reorganized the frozen food storage over the last few days and [...]
Daily Dining
Daily Dining
The old saying goes “Breakfast like a King, lunch like a Prince, dinner like a Pauper”. While I am not there yet exactly, I can feel myself moving in that direction, beginning with my refound love of breakfast foods and my rekindled habit of rising early.
breakfast ▼
Sumatra Mandheling coffee
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage Patties
Biscuits
lunch ▼
12 oz Dr. [...]
Daily Dining
Daily Dining
Okay, so I skipped breakfast today, which is never a good idea. The remainder of todays foods were down-home favorites - simple foods I grew up with and have always had an affinity for.
breakfast ▼
3 cups of Sumatra Mandheling coffee
2 tsp sugar
lunch ▼
1 cup leftover Brunswick Stew
dinner ▼
1 slice Meatloaf
1 cup Boiled Potatoes
1 cup [...]
Molecular Gastronomy for the Masses
Molecular Gastronomy for the Masses
Daily Dining
Daily Dining
After a week of this food blogging experiment, I am convinced that simply paying attention to what I eat makes me eat less. I am also becoming convinced that putting it out here for all the world to see (theoretically at least) is pushing me towards eating better foods in general.
breakfast ▼
3 cups Sulawesi [...]
Daily Dining
Daily Dining
Today’s eating was dominated by Sunday Dinner, done on a German theme this week, and quite delicious, if I do say so myself.
breakfast ▼
Coffee: 3 cups
Sugar cube: 2
dinner ▼
Schweinepfeffer (Paprika Pork Stew): 1.5 serving
Onion Rye Bread: 2 slices
Westphalischer Kirschkuchen (Westphalian Cherry Cake): 2 pieces
supper ▼
Westphalischer Kirschkuchen (Westphalian Cherry Cake): 1 piece
Today’s Weight: 202 lb
Daily Dining
Daily Dining
Okay, so I have been corrected as to the proper Southern usage of Dinner and Supper. Dinner is the largest meal of the day regardless of when it is served, and supper is the small meal after (and only after) dinner.
So you can have Lunch and then Dinner or Dinner and then Supper, but [...]
Daily Dining
Daily Dining
I think I might just enjoy this whole food diary thing, so I have been playing around a bit with how to make it a more enjoyable topic for postings, starting with a snazzy layout. Let me know what you think.
breakfast ▼
Coffee: 3 cups
Sugar cube: 2
Fried Bologna Sandwich
Fried Bologna slice: 2
Cheese: 1
Over-medium egg: 1
Bread:2 [...]
More Bacon Goodness
I have many times pointed out my love of all things bacon, so I was happy to find that Vosges Haut-Chocolate offers a milk chocolate bar laced with smoked Applewood bacon bits:
Crisp, buttery, compulsively irresistible bacon and milk chocolate combination has long been a favorite of mine. I started playing with this combination at the [...]
Daily Dining
Todays Food:
coffee: x3
sugar cube: x3
beef & cabbage stew: 1 serving
banana: x1
candy Corn: 1 serving
pasta w/ Pesto: 1 serving
kielbasa: 1 serving
steamed Broccoli: 1 serving
olive bread: 2 slices w/ margarine
Todays Weight:
209 lb
Daily Dining
Jenn and I are on a quest to trim the old waist-lines, and are beginning with a modest food diary in order to get a handle on what we actually eat. I’ll be posting a daily list of my consumption along with my weight for the day. So, here goes.
Today’s Food:
coffee: x3
sugar cube: x5
half & [...]
Farmers Markets Cheaper Than Supermarkets?
There has been a little flood recently of items concerning the costs of shopping at farmers markets instead of supermarkets. Meg Hourihan points to some conclusions from a business-statistics class at Seattle University. Meanwhile, over at Becks & Posh, Sam has come to the same conclusion.
For my part, even ignoring the cost/value of known provenance, [...]
What’s Cooking Grandma?
What’s Cooking Grandma?
…On Cooking & Eating
There’s not much profit to be made off of the healthy, self-reliant individual who can solve his own problems. I find I can cook an excellent meal for myself from scratch within 30 minutes and while doing other work at a cost of not much more than a dollar. Yet, many people are absolutely dependent [...]
What Do 300 Calorie Meals Look Like?
What Do 300 Calorie Meals Look Like?
A Big Kitchen
If you look in architectural magazines or cooking magazines, kitchens have become enormous, high-tech wonders; ads show monster appliances, triple ovens and fridges big enough to park a cow in. I will admit to having been drawn into big kitchen lust — taken in by kitchen porn. I spent quite a bit of time complaining [...]
The Caffeine Database
The Caffeine Database
New record for world’s hottest pepper: Bhut Jolokia
New record for world’s hottest pepper: Bhut Jolokia
Chocolate Covered Bacon
Chocolate Covered Bacon
Thirteen Vegetarian Meals
As I have been exploring my relationship to my food again, I have been flirting somewhat with vegetarianism.
Vegetarianism still makes a lot of people wonder what it is that you eat, even though the vast majority of all dishes in the world could be considered ‘vegetarian’.
With that in mind, here are thirteen of my favorite [...]
The Post-Punk Kitchen
As Jenn and I get our eating habits under control, we seem to be inching closer and closer to veganism. Now, thanks to Isa Chandra Moskowitz, we have inched that much closer.
Like me, Isa grew up in the 1990’s punk scene, and everyone from that generation seems to be turning farther and farther away from [...]
Pimp My Sushi
Pimp My Sushi
What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
Roast Magazine
My new favorite magazine
Cooking By Numbers
Cooking By Numbers
Thirteen Things I Am Waiting For
While it is not healthy to spend our whole lives waiting for things to happen, and in doing so miss everything that is going on, a certain amount of anticipation is natural, and healthy. Towards that end, here are thirteen things I am currently looking forward to or awaiting:
Utensils: Knives and a pot from Tony [...]
Thirteen Things In My Cabinets
Carrying on from last week’s Thirteen, here are thirteen ingredients in my kitchen cabinets:
Tofu: Firm Silken kind
Instant Miso Soup: for the tofu to go in
Dried beans: green lentils, yellow lentils, chickpeas, etc…
Rice: long-grain, brown, wild and basmati
Coconut Milk: for making Thai rice
Cous cous: because you can’t always eat rice
Tea: Earl Gray, Djarleeing, Assam, White and [...]
Thirteen Things In My Refrigerator
Is the refrigerator, as some have suggested, a good indicator of what kind of person someone is? I have no idea, but there are only about thirteen things in mine, so here you go:
Coronation Chicken Sandwich Filler: Think chicken chunks in curried mayonnaise.
Port Salut: One of my very favorite French cheeses.
Pont L’Eveque: Another of my [...]
Change Your Relationship To Your Food - Step 9
The ninth and final installment of our series on developing a better relationship with your food.
Change Your Relationship To Your Food - Step 8
Part Eight of our ongoing series on how to change your relationship with your food in order to be healthier, have less stress, and live longer.
Change Your Relationship To Your Food - Step 7
One of the biggest barriers to learning anything new is our preconceived notions about it, and food and cooking are no different in that respect. We tend to think of cooking as somewhat mysterious, and our thoughts in that realm are concentrated on the extremely linear; everything is a recipe. This can be a hindrance [...]
Brunswick Stew
This is one of my mothers classic recipes.
Yield: 4-6 servings
3 lbs. chicken (can be whole chicken, breast quarters, or leg quarters)
Tomatoes – 1 can diced or sliced with liquid
Corn – whole kernel, one can, with liquid
Potatoes – peeled & diced, about 3
Green lima beans – 10 oz. frozen
Onion – medium, chopped (it goes in raw)
Salt [...]
Change Your Relationship To Your Food - Step 5
Can Those Cans
Last week I talked about how to recognize excellent food when dining out in order to elevate the basic concept of eating out of the humdrum “feed the machine” place that it languishes in for far too many of us. I advised becoming incredibly picky about food when dining out and becoming what [...]
Change Your Relationship To Your Food - Step 4
Being A Picky Eater
So far we have discussed eating on a schedule, eating a variety of foods and eating in moderation. Now I would like to address one of the key reasons that, I think, people have a hard time following those three rules for good eating; you just aren’t picky enough.
Picky? Yeah, picky. A [...]
More on Restaurants and Home-Cooking
I have given some more thought to what I wrote yesterday about cooking at home instead of going out to a restaurant, and thanks to Seattle Simplicity’s post about her upcoming $243 dinner at The Herbfarm I am now able to explain in greater detail why our change recent of attitude towards restaurants made me [...]
Jon 1, Restaurant 0
We have been making an effort to be more cost and value conscious when making purchasing decisions as a part of our new deliberate lifestyle, but there is one area where that is extrememely hard for us: restaurants.
We have been able to internalize and “own” (to use the hip business term) most all of our [...]
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