Scratch Cooking
30 November 2011 by
Jean Johnson
There's no comparison between store bought peel and home candied. The former is skinny and skimpy. The latter, fat and sumptuous. Plus that if you use organic fruits and sugar, you wind up with pretty decent delicacies instead of weird madness.
All that and this is the stuff of a thrifty ...
Posted in Celeste and HH, Fall, Fruit, Holidays, Playing with Your Food, Recipes, Scratch Cooking, Seasons, Thrift | 3 Comments »
18 June 2011 by
Jean Johnson
It started when Linda stayed in my 2 room b&b over the weekend. I made Polenta Waffles that are always a hit. Linda went on to the next leg of her vacation, but as so often happens, I'm on a roll. That's how it happens when you're a basically lazy, ...
Posted in Breakfasts, Fresh, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, Getting on a Roll, Iris the Cat, Lunches, Measurefree Cooking, Organic GMO Free Corn, Playing with Your Food, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, Thrift, Ultrafast, Vegetarian, Whole Grains | 2 Comments »
25 February 2011 by
Jean Johnson
That's right. A trip to Italy isn't required. All we need do is turn the lights on in our own kitchens and pour of glass of wine. All we need do is scratch cook with local, seasonal ingredients at their height of freshness. All we need do is leave behind ...
Posted in Dinner, Fish, Flash Cooking, Scratch Cooking, Ultrafast, Winter | 2 Comments »
3 January 2011 by
Jean Johnson
As usual, it's not what we do but how to do it. Especially when it comes to the measure free hippie kitchen. So those long lists you see in cookbooks about putting a pantry together only go so far by telling us what to buy at the store. Half the ...
Posted in Appetizers, Holidays, Leftovers, Playing with Your Food, Putting Up Food, Scratch Cooking, Vegan, Vegetarian, Winter, Work Area & The Stove | 6 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 »
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 »
11 October 2010 by
Jean Johnson
There's one like this in Hippie Kitchen on page 75, but that was made with summer savory one sunny day in June. Now the days are more golden than sunny, but harvest is plentiful as this Lastavera shows. Broccoli, tomatillos, green chiles, leeks, tomatoes, and garlic--all from the garden--all flash ...
Posted in Amie-Pure Prairie League, Appetizers, Beans, Fall, Food Thoughts, Lunches, Recipes, Rock & Roll, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, Seasons, The Cook Counts To, Thrift | 2 Comments »
10 October 2010 by
Jean Johnson
On a recent Facebook thread, someone said, "if what you do--cooking from scratch with garden produce--means being a hippie, I'm all for it." The writer had apparently dismissed the counterculture of the Sixties--hippies--as a group of free loaders mainly interested in drugs, sex, and rock & roll. And why wouldn't ...
Posted in Food Politics, History, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, Sixties Critique | 2 Comments »
19 September 2010 by
Jean Johnson
The polenta I talked about in the preceding post had some long legs. In addition to the green bean toss, it became the topping for a cobbler. Here's how it all came down.
First I roasted some plums and peaches. Balsamic on the plums, red wine over the peaches and ...
Posted in Desserts, Food Thoughts, Fruit, Kitchen Tips, Peeling Garlic, Roasting Fruits and Vegetables, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, Summer, Thrift | 3 Comments »
16 June 2010 by
Jean Johnson
Flash cooking continues to attract people to my work. I'm glad because it's the heart of what my measure free, seasonal, sustainable message is about.
So here you go.
In these vids I show how to
Turn the burner on high with a puddle of water.
Put your rustically chopped veggies in, ...
Posted in Beans, Bioethics & Sustainability, Dinner, Equipment, Flash Cooking, Flavor, Food Thoughts, Fresh, Health and Wellness, Measurefree Cooking, Playing with Your Food, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, The Cook Counts To, Thrift, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Video | 9 Comments »