Swiss cheese omelet with Canadian bacon and onion tops.
Preparation: 10 minutes
Shopping: none
A high quality Emmentaler cheese brings a great deal of flavor and a bit of saltiness to this omelet. I also dice some Canadian bacon stored in the fridge. This time of year we are growing onion in seed trays for transplanting in [...]
Entries from March 2009
Breakfast
March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The Last Fish: Calamari Veracruz
March 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I promise this will be the last time I talk about our favorite Veracruz sauce for a while. But we still had some left over (after at least one other catfish dinner and a breakfast) and so I tried it on a pound of squid.
Squid is not to everyone’s taste unless it’s been battered [...]
Of Bears, Opossums, Asapargus and pH
March 29th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
What with the confrontation between dogs and bears and the opossums eating the chickens, it was a very busy week for farmer Lee Hauter.
An unholy row forced Lee out of bed one night. A bear he recognized from last fall apparently had risen from its long hibernation and approached the farm looking very skinny [...]
Tags: asparagus·CSA·local farming
Watch Slow Cook on Television
March 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
This must be the week when the news media wake up to spring and want to interview The Slow Cook in his garden.
We’ve been interviewed about chickens by WAMU radio, appeared on the Kojo Nnamdi show to talk about food gardening and yesterday we entertained a film crew from FOX News to talk about [...]
Tags: food news·Gardening Blogs
An Alternative to Farmed Salmon
March 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Everybody sells it. But farmed salmon gets a big fat “avoid” from marine environmental groups such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program. The reasons are many:
* Salmon are carnivorous. It takes three pounds of fish feed to create one pound of salmon, meaningstressed fish populations are being further exploited to create farmed [...]
Don’t Wait for a Community Garden Plot!
March 27th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized
We don’t publish many guest posts here at The Slow Cook (this may be the first). But this story was too good to pass by. Nat West, of Portland, Oregon, got tired of waiting for a community garden plot. So he went to Google’s satellite map, located a vacant lot near his home and turned [...]
Sustainable Seafood? Good Luck!
March 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Studies indicate that the world’s fisheries may be facing total collapse by 2048. Some 80 percent of commercial fish are already being exploited beyond or near their ability to sustain themselves. So imagine a world in which most of the world’s governments are actively promoting the pillaging of oceans and even the best experts in [...]
Tags: sustainable fisheries
Hear Slow Cook on the Radio
March 24th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Uncategorized
The Slow Cook is scheduled to talk about urban food gardening on the Kojo Nnamdi show at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 25 (tomorrow).
Kojo, a popular host on WAMU radio here in the District of Columbia,is located at 88.5 FM locally. You can also listen to him live on the internet here. The program is usually [...]
Time for a New Compost Pile
March 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
If it’s spring, it must be time to start a new compost pile. Here are some of our favorite ingredients: leaves collected in the fall and chopped fine in the leaf grinder, coffee grounds from Starbucks, and something new: horse manure.
For years I’ve been passing a small riding stables on our usual route to [...]
Tags: composting
Whither the Food Movement?
March 23rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
Groundbreaking for the new White House kitchen garden has lit up the food blogosphere as well as the mainstream press. But longtime food advocates who’ve been toiling away on sustainable food issues for years–and won many significant victories–are worried they’re going to be overrun by food celebrities who think they know better what the [...]
Tags: food news
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.
