Yes, I know it’s Monday. But I want to start working a food news roundup feature into the weekly routine and I’m a day behind. In the future, I hope to have this on Sunday when everyone can sit down with a cup of their favorite java and catch up on The Slow Cook.
If [...]
Entries from April 2007
Weekend Update
April 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Tags: food news
Wild Pesto That Saved the Day
April 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
The chickweed pesto was a sensation at yesterday’s schoolyard greening lunch.
So imagine my chagrin when, after getting up at the crack of dawn to make a last-minute vinaigrette for one of my pasta salads, and after pulling platters to display the lunch on, and after hauling all this equipment plus a cooler full of [...]
Triumph of the Chickweed
April 28th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized
Chickweed, or stellaria media, normally is the bane of the vegetable garden. It grows in great creeping matts, insinuating itself into the beds, twining itself around the plants we are trying to grow for food.
This time of year, chickweed is just beginning to bloom and form seeds here in the District of Columbia. So by [...]
Check out Edible Nation
April 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Remember, oh, it seems like another lifetime ago–our matanza adventure slaughtering pigs and making sausages with our farmer friends Brett Grohsgal and Christine Bergmak.
Subsequently, my story about the matanza appeared in Edible Chesapeake magazine. Today, it is the lead story in Edible Nation, the national blog for all of the various “Edible” magazines [...]
Tags: Edible Nation·matanza
The Daily Grind
April 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I went off to make sausages with the kids in my “food appreciation” classes yesterday and forgot not only a vital part to my new sausage press but also my camera.
You will just have to make due with this pathetic picture of the electric meat grinder that my wife inherited from her grandmother. It’s [...]
Tags: sausages
How Much Do We Like Parsnips?
April 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
I was doing a little maintenance in the garden yesterday and came upon this vigorous bush of green shading my new strawberry plants. I had a suspicion it belonged to a parsnip I planted last fall.
I bent down and pulled on the green leafy part.
I pulled…
And I pulled….
And I PULLED….
Finally I had to get [...]
Tags: parsnips
Secret Revealed
April 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
For years our friend Larry has been serving us these sweet onion tea sandwiches that we always assumed could not possibly be as simple as they turn out to be.
Yesterday I was tasked with making “snacks” for about 20 people so I decided to put these sneaky little delectables on the menu.
I felt truly [...]
Tags: hors d'oeuvres·onions
Spring Bites for a Small Crowd
April 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
My assignment for today is to prepare “snacks” for at least 18 people.
The event is Day One of a two-day clinic for teachers who either preside over a school garden or would like to start one. Since building a large container garden at my daughter’s charter school last year I’ve been roped into a [...]
Tags: snacks·spring·vegetables
There You Go Again…
April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Well, I’ve done it again. For the second time in a about a week, I raised the hackles of a fellow food blogger over what kind of fish we should or should not be serving.
I feel a bit like a skunk at the party, telling another blogger that the fish he’s chosen for a [...]
Tags: seafood
Salmon with Spring Vegetables
April 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Here’s an excuse to use just about every Spring vegetable you can think of. Leeks, fennel, asparagus, artichoke, carrots–quite a crew.
The vegetables constitute a kind of hash upon which the salmon can be proudly displayed and served.
As for the salmon, I chose a wild-caught coho salmon from the certified-sustainable Alaskan fishery.
The coho salmon is [...]
Tags: salmon·spring·vegetables
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, one mile from the White House.
