Seasons
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 »
19 May 2011 by
Jean Johnson
One bowl meals. It's how to turn gorgeous food out on a dime. A dime of both time and money.
In this case, there were leftover French lentils and quinoa in the fridge--so into the bowl they went with some jarred roasted red peppers, a pear from the season's end, and ...
Posted in Dinner, Family, Friends, & Love, Flash Cooking, Food Politics, Processed Food, Salads, Spices, Spring, Thrift, Vegan, Vegetables, Whole Grains | 1 Comment »
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 »
4 January 2011 by
Jean Johnson
Mainstream food writers at the Oregonian dismissed spaghetti squash as bland and boring in an article on winter squashes. Too bad they missed the point, but then that's what happens as long as you're looking at things from the Standard American Perspective--which in the case of food is widely known ...
Posted in Flavor, Getting on a Roll, Leftovers, Measurefree Cooking, Playing with Your Food, Salads, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter | 4 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 »
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 »
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 »