CSA: What's in YOUR Box, week two.
Last week I started what I hope to be a weekly diary about community supported agriculture, farmer's markets, and locavore agriculture and produce, where subscribers, devotees (maybe even a dissenter...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Soups
I love soups. When I’m not feeling well the thing I crave most is soup. Soups have been traced to around 6,000 B.C. Almost every culture has a version of soup. Soup can be hot or cold or a broth or a...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Cookies
As some of you may have noticed over here at Street Prophets we call the tip jar, cookies. It probably says a lot about our love of food. One of the major comfort foods in the world has to be cookies...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Pasta
Pasta dishes are frequently found in the category of comfort food. Many of us grew up on the blue box with the orange sauce called macaroni and cheese. You can find pasta dishes in the cuisine of...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Chocolate
One day my teenage niece told me she knew what the five main food groups were. She proudly told me chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, and pizza. You can tell we are related. Chocolate is a slice of...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Potatoes
It is one of the most humble of vegetables but also one of my favorites. It is the common potato. It has a long history and was first cultivated in South America between three and seven thousand years...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Comfort Food
In times of stress we often look to comfort food to help us get through. Comfort food is food that soothes the psyche as it provides nourishment. It often is a food that we remember from our childhood....
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Wok and Roll
I am a huge fan of Chinese food. In many of my recipes I use Chinese cooking techniques and do my own versions of popular Chinese recipes. It comes from living most of my life in the San Francisco Bay...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Thanksgiving
I’m not really sure where the time went but this Thursday is Thanksgiving. For me it will be a day of trying to get Christmas projects started. I’m going to be by myself as my niece and her family will...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Something Different for Christmas Dinner
I think almost every house has their own traditions when it comes to Christmas dinner. I know in our house ham was the traditional dish. Some houses go with the Christmas goose ala Charles Dickens. A...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Party Time
Christmas is over. You are still finding bows that have been torn off the packages. Now you can relax and oh wait New Year’s and the Super Bowl are coming up. To help you out here are some appetizers...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Salads
Around January salads start appearing on a lot of people’s diets. People have decided to lose weight and hope that salads will help do the trick. Unfortunately many people equate salads with boring. My...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Tex-Mex
I grew up in California. It was there that I first encountered Tex-Mex cooking. Many people seem to think that Tex-Mex cooking is Taco Bell. Nothing could be further from the truth. I learned most...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Crockpots, Slow is the Way to Go
I think one of the greatest inventions as far as cooking goes is the Crockpot or Slow Cooker. In 1970 Rival acquired from the Naxon Utilities Corporation a “beanery” which was used for slow cooking...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Appetizers
With warmer weather coming in it is the time of year that we start thinking of parties. I am having family and friends to dinner for both St. Patrick’s Day and Easter. We will have a High School...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: A Potpourri of Recipes
I have been busy lately with having family over for dinner. We have had Christmas, St. Patrick’s Day, and Easter at my house. It is a challenge because part of the family is vegetarian and part meat...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Vegetarian Cooking
I learned to cook vegetarian dishes from necessity. My niece was bringing up her fiancé to meet her Dad and Kevin was a vegetarian. My Mom was a typical Midwest meat and potatoes cook and was at a...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Would You Make Your Recipe For?
For the last ten years I have been working on an original recipes cookbook. I am currently doing the final format on it and have started up a second cookbook for the new recipes. I have around 255...
View ArticleBreaking Bread: More Comfort Foods
In times of stress we often look to comfort food to help us get through. Comfort food is food that soothes the psyche as it provides nourishment. It often is a food that we remember from our childhood....
View ArticleBreaking Bread: Lots of Cookies
I love cookies. They can be elegant or rustic. They come in bars, or drops, or thin little slices. You can make decorative cookies in all different shapes. I even have a unicorn cookie cutter. Cookies...
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