Culti-Multi Food
5 December 2008 by
Jean Johnson
I've been out and about at natural food markets doing book signings--and offering samples from Beyond Measure. The last few days I've been on a roll with my stuffed dates recipe. You can't get a more innocent and easier holiday treat than stuffed dates.
Stuffed Dates
Recipe Note
Pit the dates and ...
Posted in Cheese, Culti-Multi Food, Desserts, Flavor, Fruit, Holidays, Innocent Sweets, Winter | 4 Comments »
10 October 2008 by
Jean Johnson
Here in Portland, Oregon, it's as if Mother Nature threw a switch and autumn commenced. I'm sure golden days are yet to come, but at the moment it's brisk and cloudy. Gone are the fresh tomatoes and the lean, clean flavors that taste so great when it's hot. Here are ...
Posted in Culti-Multi Food, Equipment, Family, Friends, & Love, Flavor, Fresh, Kitchen Tips, Spices | 4 Comments »
22 February 2008 by
Jean Johnson
"What do you do with that?" said Nicole, the deli manager at my neighborhood Fred Meyers. "We sell so much of it, but I've never known what people do with it."
"It's all the Norwegians that live here in Portland," I said. "They mostly eat it shaved thinly onto good dark ...
Posted in Cheese, Culti-Multi Food, Dinner, Fall, Flash Cooking, Innocent Sweets, Lunches, Salads, Ultrafast, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter | 3 Comments »
1 February 2008 by
Jean Johnson
I took this shot one of the rare days when the griddle was not in use on the stove. A wash in the background except you get a glimpse of some of the students I worked with in the Hopi and Navajo nations. Indeed, it was in Indian Country that I ...
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9 January 2008 by
Jean Johnson
This takes me back to Bangkok where I watched the gracious Daeng Arporn Punlert make tom yam goong, or hot and sour shrimp soup, many times. Here's what I wrote down one day while she was in action:
Hot and Sour Thai Soup
Recipe Note (Cooking Beyond Measure, p. 92)
Boil the shells from ...
Posted in Culti-Multi Food, Family, Friends, & Love, Fish, Flavor, Fresh Herbs, Putting Up Food, Scratch Cooking, Soups, Vegetables | 5 Comments »
16 October 2007 by
Jean Johnson
If you're ever invited to eat in Hopiland and want to impress your hostess, take her some fresh chile. When I lived in the Hopi village of Sipaulovi it was all about cooking. And in the mornings plates of roasted chiles would appear centermost in the table for enjoying along ...
Posted in Culti-Multi Food, Fall, Family, Friends, & Love, Flavor, Roasting Fruits and Vegetables, Seasonal, Sides, Summer, Thrift, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian | Add a Comment »
15 October 2007 by
Jean Johnson
On the wok post I talked about ways to use late season zucchinis, tomatoes, chiles, and corn. Here's another from Cooking Beyond Measure, p53. Just grate and chop the veggies and stir them into an eggy batter with some corn masa added for heft. Grease your pan and bake in ...
Posted in Breakfasts, Culti-Multi Food, Dinner, Fall, Flavor, Kitchen Garden Thoughts, Lunches, Organic GMO Free Corn, Seasonal, Vegetables, Vegetarian | Add a Comment »
by
Jean Johnson
It's mid-October but the kitchen garden still giveth. Today there was broccoli, roasting ears, a couple small lonesome zucchinis, and a cartload of Anaheim chiles. Seemed like dinner to me.
All it took was a douse of water (which in truth was some cinnamon tea left in the teapot) in ...
Posted in Beans, Culti-Multi Food, Dinner, Equipment, Fall, Flash Cooking, Fresh, Lunches, Measurefree Cooking, Salads, Seasonal, Spices, The Cook Counts To | Add a Comment »
1 October 2007 by
Jean Johnson
I'm half Norwegian, and we love cold salmon and cucumbers. Still, when fall starts to bluster, there's nothing like chowder.I made the one pictured just for myself out of fish left over from roasted salmon.
Salmon Chowder
Cooking Beyond Measure, p. 108
This takes all of five minutes if you have some roasted ...
Posted in Bioethics & Sustainability, Culti-Multi Food, Fall, Fish, Getting on a Roll, Lunches, Roasting Fruits and Vegetables, Soups, Ultrafast, Vegetables, Whole Grains, Winter | Add a Comment »
7 September 2007 by
Jean Johnson
The other evening while out on my bike I ran into friends who mentioned a neighbor was roasting tomatoes. It isn't as though roasting veggies isn't in my repertoire, but with the weather being so hot lately, the thought of heating an oven has not presented itself. But serendipity. Recent ...
Posted in Culti-Multi Food, Fall, Putting Up Food, Roasting Fruits and Vegetables, Ultrafast, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian | 2 Comments »
