Yesterday, I mentioned my struggle to find enjoyable uses for summer squash. Here is a recipe that my husband and I have really enjoyed this week. I first prepared it on Thursday, and then, since I had a new load of squash and corn from this morning’s farmers’ market, I cooked another batch tonight. Served [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Summer Squash and Corn Soup
Posted in Recipes, eating locally, tagged Cooking, corn, food, summer squash on June 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Look How Pretty!
Posted in Cultured Veggies, Probiotics, tagged cultured vegetables, fermented vegetables, lactofermentation on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
This is how the Garden-Style Cultured Vegetables with Dill turned out after fermentation. See how the red cabbage has stained everything pink? I love how they look in the light!
Here’s the “before” shot:
What a difference!
(And, believe me, it’s not just the lighting. Or photo editing either. I didn’t alter the colors in the photographs.)
Now I [...]
What to Do with Summer Squash?
Posted in Cooking, eating locally, tagged Cooking, farmers' market, food on June 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Summer squash is flooding the farmers’ markets right now in Houston. Almost every stand overflows with yellow squash, zucchini squash, patty pan squash, and many more I can’t identify by name. I see this as a double-edged sword. On one hand, summer squash is cheap, plentiful, and healthy. On the other hand, summer squash is cheap, plentiful, and healthy. That [...]
Fuel for My Apron Fetish
Posted in Uncategorized on June 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
You know when you discover a new product or store that you love so much you wish you had never heard of it, because now you’re going to go broke? Alas! Such a tragedy has befallen me in the last 48 hours. You might recall my recent post in which I extolled the virtues of my [...]
Garden-Style Cultured Vegetables with Dill
Posted in Cultured Veggies, Probiotics, Recipes, tagged cultured vegetables, fermented vegetables, lactofermentation, Probiotics on June 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
For my last batch of cultured vegetables, I decided to break out of the box and do some experimenting. I had prepared the basic Body Ecology recipe before (Version 2), as well as a delicious Marinara-Style recipe, but I wanted something new. I poked around online to see what the companies that sell cultured vegetables [...]
Cultured Vegetables Tutorial, Part 2
Posted in Cultured Veggies, Probiotics, tagged cultured vegetables, fermented vegetables, lactofermentation on June 11, 2008 | 11 Comments »
This post picks up exactly where Part 1 of the cultured veggie tutorial left off, so if you haven’t read the first post yet, start there.
10. Make your “brine.”
You have two options for this step. First, you can use handfuls of your shredded/sliced/chopped veggie mix. Alternatively, you can use a completely different vegetable. Either works well. [...]
WFMW: End Food Waste
Posted in Saving Money on June 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I hate wasting food for a number of reasons. For one, I don’t see it as good stewardship of the earth’s resources. Two, plenty of parents around the world would kill for that scrap of food to feed their starving children. Three, it’s not economical. Four, it just makes me feel icky. And guilty. Although [...]
Paradise Found: Chocolate Coconut Ice Cream (No Cows’ Milk)
Posted in Living with Food Allergies, Recipes, tagged dairy free, dessert, diabetes, food, Food Allergies, hypoglycemia, ice cream on June 10, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Wow! I can’t believe how great this recipe (slightly adapted from The Nourishing Gourmet) turned out! Even though I can eat raw cows’ milk products with no problems, I will make this again and again. I had to scramble to give it away before I ate the entire batch. Fortunately, we have a five-year-old girl living next [...]
Cultured Vegetables Tutorial (With Step-by-Step Photos)
Posted in Cultured Veggies, Probiotics, tagged cultured vegetables, fermented vegetables, food, lactofermentation on June 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »
If you’ve ever said to yourself, ”Culturing my own vegetables seems like a good idea, but I’m afraid to try it,” I’m here to help. When I first read The Body Ecology Diet and discovered how healthy cultured/fermented vegetables are, I wanted to make a batch right away. But let’s face it. For a modern American, leaving food out [...]
My First Meme
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Amy of Eggs on Sunday tagged me for a meme yesterday. Thanks, Amy! Novice that I am, I didn’t even know the meaning of “meme” until I looked it up. I’d seen the word tossed around a few times on other blogs, but, as it had never applied to me before, I hadn’t concerned myself with it too much. [...]
