We spent part of the afternoon today at a crafts fair sponsored by the local City Paper and dubbed “Crafty Bastards.” There were more than 100 booths packed into an area outside the Marie-Reed recreation center in Adams-Morgan and the place was jammed. Lots of handmade stuff–several different vendors of fancifull stuffed monsters made [...]
Entries from September 2007
Weekend Update
September 30th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Children were in the news this week. George Bush, while draining the treasury to fund his ghastly war-without-end, announced he would refuse to expand health insurance for the nation’s kids.
Atta boy, George. Show ‘em you know how to save where it counts.
Meanwhile, a new study published recently in the British medical journal The Lancet, [...]
Tags: food news
Saturday Food Film Fest
September 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Make yourself a bowl of popcorn. Put your feet up and relax. No heavy lifting in the kitchen today. We’re just going to sit back and take in a few flics.
Amazing, the stuff that’s making the rounds on video these days, no? Take, for instance, this surreal orchestra from Austria, a symphony of vegetables, [...]
Tags: food films
Kids Make Bread Crumb Pesto
September 27th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
Kids love to work with kitchen gadgets. They will fight for a turn on the salad spinner. They can hardly wait to get their hands on a vegetable peeler. Teaching my “food appreciation” classes at a private elementary school here in the District of Columbia, I’ve found that if you can put even the [...]
Tags: food appreciation·kids·pesto·tomatoes
Beet, Red Onion & Tomato Salad
September 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
This is one of our favorite summer salads, all the better with beets and tomatoes freshly harvested from the garden.
The beets are the Chiogga variety, noteworthy for their concentric circles of red and gold when sliced open. We cook the beets in boiling water until just done, then move them to a cold water [...]
Yesterday’s Breakfast
September 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Sliced Brandywine tomatoes from the garden with pesto sauce and fresh mozzarella cheese.
Preparation time: About three minutes.
Shopping: none
Tomato production in the garden is in full force. What happens to all the tomatoes? Mostly, we just eat them. Fresh. Any way we can. It’s almost an axiom of seasonal foods that when the food is in [...]
Seasonal Vegetable Soup
September 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
People automatically think of soup as cold weather food, but this may be the best time of all for making a vegetable soup. The flavors of freshly harvested vegetables are brilliant and there are so many to choose from. Use the ones you have grown yourself, or check the awesome displays at the local farmers [...]
Tags: soup·vegetables
Weekend Update
September 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Here’s a cute, animated film on factory farming, courtesy of the Sierra Club, to start your Sunday.
And while you’re sipping your coffee, consider a recent University of Illinois study of groundwater near pig confinement lots that found transferable genes that confer resistance to antibiotics, specifically tetracycline. Livestock in industrial settings are routinely given antibiotics [...]
Tags: food news
Green Tomato Pizza
September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Last night was pizza night, mainly because we’ve been collecting fresh mozzarella in the fridge and you don’t want that to go bad before you can use it.
For one of the toppings, my wife made a trip to the garden and came back with a big green tomato. It sliced up nicely and made [...]
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.
