In honor of St. Patrick’s day, our food appreciation classes made a quick detour to Ireland where we hoped to pick up a bit o’ luck with a pot of braised cabbage.
Understand, this is a dish some kids will turn up their noses at. Others love it. Personally, I think braised cabbage is pure ambrosia, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Recipes'
Kids Make Braised Cabbage
March 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Recipes, kids
How Do You Like Your Pork Belly?
March 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Recipes
Pork belly–uncured bacon–was all the rage for a while. Has it become a cliche already? I hope not, because my wife and I really like the fatty unctuousness of pork belly and we’ve had it served perfectly cooked at a couple of restaurants here in the District of Columbia.
Recently I tracked down some pork belly [...]
Tags: pork
Kids Make Cucumber Raita
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Ethnic, Recipes, kids
The kids in my food appreciation classes continue to explore the cuisine of South Africa, which has been heavily influenced by Indian immigrants. This week we made a favorite condiment, cucumber raita, that has a wonderful cooling effect served with spicy curries. It couldn’t be simpler, and even the kids noticed how healthy it is, consisting [...]
What I had for Lunch
March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Recipes
Cheese omelet with balsamic-glazed beef heart
preparation time: 15 minutes
shopping: none
I got distracted and missed breakfast so I made breakfast for lunch.
I love beef heart, not only because it tastes very much like beef tenderloin–just a little chewier–but because it is such a bargain. It comes from the grassfed herd at our local dairy, which charges [...]
Daughter Makes Peanut Butter Pancakes
February 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Recipes, kids
With refined flour, sugar and grape jelly, these pancakes wouldn’t appear at the top of my list of healthful foods I would wish for my daughter. But she made them herself, so I count this as a win. Anything that disabuses kids of processed factory foods is a good thing, in my book. Plus, this [...]
My Croc at Rooting D.C.
February 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Recipes, urban agriculture
My, how the Rooting D.C. confab has grown. Even in it’s very first year, local gardeners overran the facilities and the conclave was moved to the refurbished Carnegie Library, site of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. Now in its third year, however, even these new digs look to be cramped. From what I saw, [...]
Tags: fermentation·sauerkraut
Yogurt, Perfected
February 20th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Recipes
I’m always looking for ways to simpifly our yogurt making process. We make a quart each week with milk and cream we get delivered from our grassfed dairy, South Mountain Creamery. Until recently, I used a fairly rigorous process of bringing a mix of “creamtop” (unhomegenized) milk and heavy cream to 200 degrees on the [...]
Tags: kitchen tools·yogurt
Sausage Rope with Braised Cabbage
February 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Recipes
Sometimes dinner is just a happy convergence of ingredients lying around. With our weekly dairy delivery, we always include a rope of pork sausage. Besides meats from its beef herd, South Mountain Creamery offers a selection gathered from other local farmers. The sausage is one of the consistently good products we like. Finding a different [...]
Apple Pancake
February 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Recipes, breakfast
After being snowed in for a week, thoughts do turn to food. My wife dug into the crisper drawer (somehow, it’s always stuffed to the gunwales) to make this lovely apple pancake.
Well, it’s more like a crepe, but very simple. The recipe comes from our favorite breakfast-oriented cookbook, the aptly titled The Breakfast Book, by Marion [...]
Turn Whey into Cream of Broccoli Soup
February 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Recipes
Yesterday I described the simple process my wife used to make delicious ricotta cheese. Since she made it from fresh, whole milk, it produced lots of whey. That’s the liquid that separates from the protein solids in the cheese making process. We had a pot of whey sitting in the refrigerator for several days trying [...]
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.
