Tag: slow food
member name: Kevin Weeks
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August 14, 2006 05:57 PM EDT --
Beer Bread, Take II
(Note: This was originally posted on Seriously Good in November of 2005.)
Some months ago I made a loaf of beer quick bread. It was mighty tasty but had the drawback of all quick . . .
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September 23, 2006 02:34 PM EDT --
Teenage Bread --
But the bread… Sigh. It was nasty, soft, gummy stuff that stuck to the roof of my mouth without benefit of peanut butter. No, not that loaf in the picture, another, sadder loaf. . . .
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October 09, 2006 03:20 PM EDT --
I've been considering writing a book on picnics and have completed what I call a mockup for the TOC and first chapter. I'd like comments from anyone interested in food or writing. There is a . . .
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December 07, 2006 05:58 PM EST --
Today's Gather Poll was, "Do you agree with the ruling in New York to ban all trans-fats in restaurants?" For the 49 percent of respondents who answered, "Yes," I have a . . .
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March 25, 2006 06:26 PM EST --
Pet Food?
Owning a sourdough starter is a lot like owning a cat: It doesn't require a lot of attention, but you can't completely ignore it either.
Although I love baking bread I avoided sourdough . . .
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September 19, 2006 07:52 PM EDT --
Deep in Our Genes --
Were you and I living on a farm in the South 100 years ago, we'd be giving thought about now to the upcoming hog-butchering. Here in the valleys of East Tennessee (it's . . .
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October 06, 2006 05:45 PM EDT --
Ritual --
Sunday I cooked -- really cooked -- for the first time since I moved into this new place.
After a week of TV dinners while I searched for and began organizing pots and pans, dishes and glasses, . . .
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February 01, 2007 09:55 AM EST --
It's the fennel seed that makes it. Italian sausage, that is. Fennel provides the single most distinctive flavor in Italian sausage and it's often described as anise-like. Perhaps so, but I don't . . .
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March 15, 2007 10:15 AM EDT --
Paisano sighed and said, "I still wonder about that boy."
My friend and I had just finished a bowl of lentil soup — a really great bowl of lentil soup that Paisano had made. He'd . . .
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April 14, 2007 09:27 AM EDT --
There's nothing in the world that will wake you up quite the way a Gaulloises will. The nicotine punch is pretty fierce and the inevitable coughing fit will finish the job. Frankly, it's not my . . .
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April 25, 2007 09:38 AM EDT --
The Paisano sat across from me smirking into his wine. We'd gotten into a political argument over dinner and he was quite sure he had "won" the discussion. But the fact is Paisano has no . . .
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June 16, 2006 08:22 PM EDT --
Heaven Scent
I read recently that the most popular sandwich in the US (discounting hamburgers, I assume) is ham. Although I presume most people eat of some sort of processed ham on some sort of commercial . . .
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June 18, 2006 05:26 PM EDT --
Froth
I've loved soufflés for as long as I can remember, my mother made them fairly often when I was a child and I recall a feeling of wonder at the way they puffed and browned magically becoming . . .
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October 17, 2006 03:51 PM EDT --
That Wonderful Machine
There was a strange old butcher, His name was Dunderbeck
He was very fond of sausage-meat, and sauerkraut and speck
He had the finest butcher shop, the finest ever seen
Until . . .
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December 30, 2006 06:33 PM EST --
A t the risk of being labeled by Pete Wells as a " cheese sandwich blogger ," I'm going to mention my dinner last night. There was no cheese involved, but I did have soup and a sandwich. . . .
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January 03, 2007 08:42 PM EST --
Opah!
"A living heart, a large voracious mouth, a great brute soul, not yet severed from mother earth."-- Zorba the Greek
I've known people like this. There is something . . .
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March 31, 2007 09:58 AM EDT --
So what if I’m a little bit obsessive? Alright, obsessive and compulsive. But I’m not anal. Or, at any rate, I’m not obsessively and compulsively anal. Grinding my own pork and baking . . .
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April 16, 2007 12:38 PM EDT --
I gave in to temptation last weekend. I've been avoiding this particular failure of will or skill for a couple of years now, but it was time I admitted defeat. Or at least that it was time to make . . .
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February 27, 2008 04:06 PM EST --
I got a call from the Paisano about a week ago. He was in Sonoma (California) visiting a friend who raises sheep and had been bragging about my lamb sausage: my lamb sausage. I was flabbergasted because . . .
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July 24, 2006 09:53 PM EDT --
Csirkepaprikas
My parents arrived about 4:00pm. They'd flown in to Boston, rented a car, and driven up to Nashua, New Hampshire where I was living at the time. If they'd flown in to the Manchester . . .
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