Those slow foodies, what do you get them? They are often environmentally conscious and shun materialism. While the other people on your list might appreciate some sort of useless gift set from Wal-Mart, wrapped in oodles and oodles of tree-killing wrapping paper, there is a better way to your local cook’s heart. Below are some [...]
Persimmons: My nemesis.
November 28, 2009 By 2 Comments
I have almost finished with all the autumn recipes in Simply in Season. I had already planned to have guest bloggers review the cranberry recipes, but another fruit has become just as problematic: the persimmon. In the past month or so various persimmon recipes have been appearing in my favorite local cooking blogs and magazines, [...]
Pear Custard Pie
November 28, 2009 By 4 Comments
This was my second pear custard contribution to Thanksgiving, and I have to say that I preferred it over the other one from Simply in Season. I really liked the creamy texture contrasted with the underripe pears (which was an accident since that’s all the store had, but it worked out for the best. Plus, [...]
Pear Custard Bars
November 28, 2009 By 3 Comments
For the crust: Cream together 1/3 C butter, 1/3 C sugar, 3/4 C whole wheat flour, and 1/4 tsp vanilla. Stir in 2/3 C nuts and press into the bottom of an 8×8 pan and bake at 350F for 20 minutes. Cool in pan on wire rack. For the filling: Beat 8 oz cream cheese, [...]
Chicken Vegetable Soup
November 27, 2009 By 6 Comments
While the recipe in Simply in Season merely calls for a 3 pound whole chicken, I knew that this was the perfect recipe for a stewing chicken. Stewing chickens are usually tough old birds and are very inexpensive, even when they are the organic free range variety that I get from the farm where I [...]
Butternut Bisque
November 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Call me a hedonist, but I like just about any soup with the word “bisque” in the title. This version from Simply in Season gets its creaminess from nonfat plain yogurt, so I’ll put this in the healthy category. Cook the butternut or winter squash. For this, I turn to my trusty Betty Crocker. Simply [...]
Venison (or Beef) Broccoli Pasta
November 24, 2009 By 1 Comment
It’s deer hunting season here in Michigan, and unfortunately DH was unsuccessful. Last year we were able to forgo buying beef and eat from his one deer all year. We are out of steaks, and have only a few packages of ground ven left. So now we are trying to decide whether to buy a [...]
Eating Filipino and Nigerian Food in Zambia
November 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I wish I could tell you that I jumped right into the local cuisine of Zambia, including the nshima that I had had in Malawi a couple of years ago and the caterpillars sold along the roadside. Unfortunately, I had neither. On Sunday after church we drove for most of the day from Gulu to [...]
Eating Locally in Soroti, Uganda
November 23, 2009 By 2 Comments
We arrived in Soroti just after dark on Monday, Nov. 9. Exhausted from driving all day we decided to postpone our orientation until after breakfast and sat down to our first dinner at the guest house where we were staying. The guest house was very comfortable, surprisingly. Running water (sometimes hot!) and continuous electricity were [...]
Local Eating in Uganda and Zambia
November 22, 2009 By 4 Comments
Well friends, I’m back from my trip! What an adventure. I’ll have to post the pics later because all my photos are downloaded to my coworker’s laptop and I am taking a few days off of work to recover from jet lag. I’ll be posting my culinary review over the next few days as time [...]
