All entries for 2010
27 December 2010 by
Jean Johnson
Quiche is reliable since it's just a custard with goodies in it that sets up no problemo. Also it's great served room temperature, so is perfect for something like a New Year's buffet.
Shrimp Quiche
Here's one I did for Christmas with wild prawns that I boiled first, sliced in half ...
Posted in Appetizers, Cheese, Dinner, Fish, Food Politics, Holidays, Lunches, Pie, Recipes, Vegetarian | 2 Comments »
20 December 2010 by
Jean Johnson
So far so good. I've still not bought fresh produce (except pomegranates, lemons, and some Clementines) and since the slim garden days of last spring. It's getting to be slim pickins' for sure given Portland's November snow storm that way laid my broccoli and gave the kale and cabbage a ...
Posted in Fish, Fresh Herbs, Kitchen Garden Thoughts, Salads, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, Seasons, Soups, Thrift, Ultrafast, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter | 6 Comments »
15 December 2010 by
Jean Johnson
A line I co-opted from Neil Young but so accurate when you think about it. The food industry and the grocers the pushers and us peasants hooked on their grocery carts. Pushing them around the stores in mindless dazes, clutching at things in crinkly packages. Sure that just one ...
Posted in Factory Farming and Conventional Agriculture, Food Politics, Processed Food, Sixties Critique | 5 Comments »
14 December 2010 by
Jean Johnson
The exclamation point is so over-used these days, but in the case of this title, it is warranted. That's because in both instances, the food industry--conventional and natural--wants to incite excitement.
We will be getting a real deal, they imply, if we take a fast track to pizza with their ...
Posted in Food Politics, Processed Food | Add a Comment »
5 December 2010 by
Jean Johnson
I think each of these readings is 3 minutes or so. Hope you have time for a listen. Merry Howdy, Jean
if you're inspired--and I hope you are--you click over to the cookbooks page and take advantage of the December sale--all told with the free domestic shipping it's a 20 percent ...
Posted in Family, Friends, & Love, Measure Free News, Roasting Fruits and Vegetables, Winter | 1 Comment »
2 December 2010 by
Jean Johnson
The measure free trilogy books will surely become collectible. After all, Cooking Beyond Measure and Hippie Kitchen are the first cookbooks without measurements written in the United States in over a century. And when Grow Your Own Comes out next year, it will be the third.
More, these books are ...
Posted in Measure Free News, Seasonal, Seasons, Winter | 1 Comment »
2 November 2010 by
Jean Johnson
Here's how ultrafast cooking works in my hippie kitchen. In the morning when I'm having breakfast, I steam up a pot of quinoa. This grain cooks in 10 minutes and has the highest protein of them all. I leave it sitting out at room temperature and then when dinner comes ...
Posted in Fall, Getting on a Roll, Kitchen Tips, Salads, Sides, The Cook Counts To, Thrift, Ultrafast, Vegan, Whole Grains, Winter | 9 Comments »
27 October 2010 by
Jean Johnson
There's been more traffic than usual around the hacienda lately. One thing I've noticed is that I can almost tell how hip a person is to eating in a savvy manner by how non-grabby they are with the paper towels.
Case in point: this roll of towels has been on the ...
Posted in Food Politics, Rock & Roll, Sixties Critique, The Pretender-Jackson Browne | 13 Comments »
by
Jean Johnson
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With the glow of the meditation hall in my heart, I queued up at the dinner buffet table. It may have been a silent retreat but my mind was in full gear. Especially when I saw the fresh vegetable de jour looking ...
Posted in Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, Ripple-Jerry Garcia, Rock & Roll | 5 Comments »
20 October 2010 by
Jean Johnson
Yes, I know the lastavera doesn't quite work since vera means spring in Italian. But hey, it's close, and it conveys so well the idea of using vegetables the fall harvest brings through the door. A few posts ago I was lastavering with a grain salad. This time it's with ...
Posted in Bioethics & Sustainability, Culti-Multi Food, Fall, Food Thoughts, Fresh, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, Health and Wellness, Kitchen Tips, Organic GMO Free Corn, Ratios, Recipes, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, Seasons, The Cook Counts To, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Video | Add a Comment »