Applesauce may be one of the culinary world’s best-kept secrets. Fresh applesauce is incredibly easy and so quick, it’s a wonder (or maybe just a shame) anyone buys it in a jar at the store.
My “food appreciation” classes resumed after the Thanksgiving break to take up seasonal fruits and I’ve been wanting to focus [...]
Entries from November 2007
Kids Make Applesauce
November 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
Tags: apples·food appreciation·kids
Dark Days: Meal 6
November 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Turkey left over from the 31-pound Thanksgiving bird we butchered at our friend Mike Klein’s farm in nearby Prince George’s County. Here some dark meat is piled on a thick slice of yeasted sweet-potato bread (using sweet potatoes from our CSA package), smeared with mayo and gingered cranberry relish. Everything is then smothered with [...]
Tags: bread·dark days challenge·salad·turkey
Cholent: Is Moist Pot Roast Possible?
November 28th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
A pot roast should be the easiest thing in the world to make. And yet, it so often is not.
Take the pot roast of my grandmother Arentz.Grandma Arentz was a large woman who owed a sardonic disposition to a number of hard knocks. She had two favorite haunts when she visited our house outside Chicago. [...]
Leftover Madness
November 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, it’s time to dig out from all the leftover food.
There were a couple of big pots of turkey stock in the cold room that needed to be broken down into smaller containers, labeled and frozen. One down, one to go.
On Sunday, friends agreed to help out by actually eating [...]
Tags: leftovers·Thanksgiving
Paella Deconstructed
November 26th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
Let me confess up front that I am new to paella and that the sum total of my knowledge comes from the two books on Spanish cooking in my collection: Delicioso!, by Penelope Casas, and My Kitchen in Spain, by Janet Mendel.
Paella is a dish I have always wanted to become more familiar with [...]
Weekend Update
November 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
It was a slow news week because of the Thanksgiving holiday. But we here at The Slow Cook News Desk did detect a kind of symmetry to recent events.
For instance, any semblance of political leadership on critical issues seems to have flickered and died here in the U.S. of A. Efforts to make the [...]
Tags: food news
Turkey Stock
November 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
In our house it was customary the day after Thanksgiving to divide the carcass and start a huge pot of turkey stock. The house would fill with the unmistakable aroma of turkey on the stove, a signal to one and all that we would soon be embarking on a week-long mission to consume as [...]
Dark Days: Meal 5
November 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Oh, it was quite the feast, this Thanksgiving, with the 31-pound bird we butchered at our farmer friend Mike Klein’s farm at the center of it all. Brother-in-law Tom, the oenophile, outdid himself, with bottles of champagne to drink with hors d’oeuvres, a beautiful Sancerre and an audacious German auslese Riesling, Pinot and even [...]
Why We Give Thanks…
November 22nd, 2007 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
For being at the top of the food chain…
For the good earth…
For friends…
For Mother Nature…
For music…
For dance…
For laughter…
For a place to grow…
For good things to eat…
For family.
Tags: Thanksgiving
The Struggle to Survive
November 21st, 2007 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Finally, I had caught up enough with chores to start disassembling the tomato cages here on our edible landscape in the District of Columbia. The tomato plants seemed to have given up the ghost weeks ago, although the reappearance of August in October stretched the growing season to unheard of lengths.
But lookey here! Two [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
