Kimchi shortage in South Korea!

Kimchi Crisis Leaves South Koreans In A Pickle Another reason I’m thankful I live in America. We really don’t have a ‘can’t live without’ food since our culinary culture is so varied. I see American more as a ‘stew’ than a ‘melting pot’ and nowhere is that more evident than in the food we eat. [...]

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Letting things go…

Wow. In the middle of a heated discussion about modesty a friend posted a link to an old article by Reb Bradley.  In the middle of the article, he puts this aside in italics: (A friend of mine, a homeschool mom, just passed away of cancer. In the week before she died, I asked her [...]

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Shrimp Gazpacho

While I was in Atlanta last weekend we ate downtown at Fire of Brazil.  I don’t remember much about the roasted meat which is supposed to be their specialty because I fell in love with the shrimp gazpacho (at least I assumed it was gazpacho!)  I fantasized about finding a recipe and making it at [...]

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Life in the Land of Plenty: Thoughts on Food “Shortages”

People who are intimately involved in food production — but produce little surplus — do not take food for granted.  They treasure it as the staff of life, as something sacred.  They scrape the pots and plates clean, suck any bones until they are shiny, and carefully use all edible parts of both plants and [...]

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Franken-Food

Okay… this isn’t along the lines of genetically engineering seed to make it forever sterile, but it is about unnatural manipulation of the taste buds. In the midst of a smoked salmon craving, I was dismayed to find it absent from the shelves at my grocery store. Tossing caution to the wind, I settled on [...]

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Eat Local Challenge 2008 – Week 3

Today is our designated day to eat local. BREAKFAST: Fried eggs (from the backyard) homemade sourdough toast LUNCH Broccoli-Cheddar Soup – potatoes from the neighbor, onions & broccoli from our garden, milk from a local dairy – I did add some carrots I had in the fridge that were not bought at the farmers’ market [...]

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Eat Local Challenge 2008 ~ Week 2

WAIT! What happened to Week #2, you ask? Sick kids. I’m sure we still at the same amount (maybe more) of local foods last week, but with two sick kiddos I didn’t sit down and plan. Some things we ate last week (that I can remember): Pancakes with locally grown blueberries Indonesian Stir Fry with [...]

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Eat Local Challenge 2008 – Week 1

We ate breakfast out yesterday morning, but I’ve decided that it counts because we at a local restaurant and not a national chain.  I know their vegies are grown locally, but that would be the extent of my knowledge on where their ingredients originate.  No problem.  We love this place and we want to keep [...]

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Eat Local Challenge 2008 – Exceptions

The family blogging on the SKY Blog about their experience has listed some exceptions for their Eat Local Challenge 2008, so I thought I’d do that for our family, as well.  My goal is to keep this list for essentials only. Whole Grains & Flour Olive Oil Coconut Oil White & Brown Sugar (will use [...]

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Eat Local Challenge

It’s here! I mentioned a few weeks ago that my wonderful dc committed us to the July 2008 Eat Local Challenge through our farmers’ market.  Fortunately, they showed some restraint and only chose the ‘one meal per week’ option.  Yea, the ‘one meal this month’ would have been a cake walk…  heck, we could have [...]

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Local ‘Eat Local’ Challenge

My wonderful, thoughtful children signed our family up for our Eat Local challenge this July. While I am singing praises that they are ‘getting it’ and hearing what dh and I are talking about, my first thought was that they’d gone completely and absolutely INSANE and “how in the heck did they think we are [...]

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Go ahead: Play with your food

Introduction of handmade vegetable musical instruments Big Broccoli Ocarina:Angels We Have Heard On High . .

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