Apple butter is just a hop, skip and jump from applesauce. So if you already know how to make applesauce, you are just a couple of steps from having apple butter.
There’s no dairy in apple “butter.” But it is thicker and darker than apple sauce–another of the thousand or so uses for apples our [...]
Entries from October 2008
Kids Make Apple Butter
October 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Lunch
October 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
Sweet potato mash with ruby chard.
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Shopping: none
These sweet potatoes were recently harvested from the garden, roasted in a 325-degree oven, then mashed and seasoned with orange juice, maple syrup, cinnamon and nutmeg.
I have enough leftover mashed sweet potatoes to last the week. I am just finishing the last of this [...]
Tags: lunch·sweet potatoes·swiss chard
Breaking News: Chesapeake Bay Foundation to Sue EPA
October 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
Blue crabs qualify as a “disaster.” Oysters have all but disappeared. Each year the Chesapeake Bay spawns gigantic “dead zones” where nothing can live.
The Chesapeake Bay is dying. The entire region continues to use it as a dumping ground for pollution. And for years all we’ve heard is talk about how something needs to be [...]
Tags: chesapeake bay
If It’s Wednesday, It Must Be Yogurt
October 29th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
Tuesday is delivery day for dairy from South Mountain Creamery. My new routine is to open a bottle of whole, cream-top milk (meaning pasteurized but not homogenized) and make a batch of yogurt for the week.
I’ve done this so many times now that I can almost make yogurt in my sleep. I’ve found that [...]
Top Blog?
October 28th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
The Culinary School Guide has selected The Slow Cook as one of the 100 top “food blogs for foodies.”
We’re listed in the “Healthy and Green” category with the following citation:
“Not every entry on this blog is about health food, but it does discourage the eating of fast food and pre-packaged meals. Instead, you’ll find advice [...]
Tags: Blogging awards
Tomato Cleanup Soup
October 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
We have so many tomatoes from our recent garden cleanup that we’ve had to divide them among different bus tubs that are now crowding our kitchen. There’s a tub of ripening tomatoes, a tub of green tomatoes (rapidly being made into preserves) and a big bowl of Roma tomatoes destined for pasta sauce and [...]
Sweet Success
October 25th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Uncategorized
This was our first year growing sweet potatoes and it was far easier than you might think. We bought seedlings through the mail from an outfit in Tennessee and transplanted them in a small plot in our kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
Within a few [...]
Tags: sweet potatoes
Kids Make Apple Crisp
October 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
This week we started a culinary world food tour in our “food appreciation” classes and our first stop outside the District of Columbia is the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where fall means apples. Kids love using a mechanical apple peeler. It used to be every family had one, apples were such an important food. [...]
We’re In Martha Stewart Living
October 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
This month I play a small role in the never-ending effort to “solve” Thanksgiving. In Magazine Land, that would entail the issue of how to prepare a turkey correctly sized for your particular gathering.
I have to admit, this assignment almost stumped me. Of course, Martha had already done all the heavy lifting, coming up [...]
Tags: Martha Stewart·Thanksgiving·turkey
Pickled Turnips
October 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
Chiogga beets from our garden give these pickled turnips a pink hue. They’re wonderful to look at, sitting in a two-quart jar on our kitchen counter. They’re even better to eat.
Making these pickles is a snap. Supposedly they are of Middle Eastern origin. People with Middle Eastern backgrounds have assured me they have tales to [...]
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.
