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All moved, now!
Published on 2010-09-08 11:25:00
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Moving day!
Published on 2010-06-16 14:16:00
Hi folks -- I've combined my three blogs and moved them over to my own website. So if you want to keep up on what I've discovered in urban nature, gardening, field-to-table food, come to my writing & photos over at patanderson.net .
One pan: ingredients
Published on 2010-05-30 18:55:00
OK, before you get upset at my lousy diet, I had a great big green salad with tomatoes and cucumbers and asparagus, 'kay?But tonight was meant for leftovers! Actually, I deliberately made leftover potatoes this morning: I peeled and cut up two potatoes and cooked them so I could use them for dinner. I only used one potato: the other one will be used later in the week.Friday night I did a slooooooow braise of a Boston Butt pork roast. I put in a Dutch oven:5lb pork roast salted and peppered, then
Chris' Cheesemongers bag
Published on 2010-05-23 20:11:00
Here it is!Silk screened on both sides with the shop's logo:I like the orange reverse on the stitched handles. And the fact that the handles are long enough to sling it over my shoulder.Lots of space in it for things. Two bottle-shaped pockets and a central divider. I shopped at the Market yesterday, and it held a basket of potatoes, one of carrots, one of parsnips, three bunches of asparagus, a bottle of olive oil, two of wine, 5 heads of garlic, 3 hunks of ginger, a pound of mushrooms from Phi
Tasty cheese
Published on 2010-05-18 21:07:00
I'm a sucker for a good cheese!I was looking for one last week, before having Oliver and Melissa over for dinner. I went to Chris' Cheesemongers: actually, it was funny how I ended up there. I was next door, at the organic Golden Orchard, buying some zucchini and cucumbers, and told the cashier how much I love using my LCBO partitioned bag for shopping. One of the cheesemongers was right behind me, and promptly told me that if I liked that bag, I'd like the ones they sell at Chris' Cheesemongers
Salut! Wine and food festival
Published on 2010-05-11 19:39:00
I won tickets to Monday night's chefs duel over crab.Dang, I wish I was one of the judges, because those of us who were not judges ate tasty appetizers, but no crab!Here are some pictures I took.I apologize for the quality: I need to (a)check that my battery is charged before leaving home and (b)check the settings on the point and shoot camera before pointing and shooting! Don't bother enlarging. The pictures look best small :-DThis one is a look down the bar at all the trays of food that had be
Why I have problems buying processed food when I'm not looking the processor in the eye
Published on 2010-05-09 10:48:00
Yet another food recall is happening, this time around some Italian-style processed meats and cheese.The larger the plant, the greater the chance that one machine's lack of cleanliness is going to impact a whole bunch of food, because everything from that line (or perhaps the plant) gets recalled.It just freaks me out how much food is being recalled these days: worse in the USA, where food poisoning can result in millions of pounds of meat being recalled and destroyed.
Playing with my food again
Published on 2010-04-28 19:29:00
They had the cutest spoons at T&T Supermarket. I couldn't resist. Somehow, I just pictured serving a lovely little amuse gueule on them at my next dinner party. So tonight, when I was cooking up scallops and edamame for dinner, I... decided to play a little.
Ever buy something unknown?
Published on 2010-04-27 13:42:00
Like, an ingredient you've not used before? Something you have no idea how to prepare?I need to look some things up.I love anchovies. I like white anchovies, I like salted anchovies, I like salted anchovies in olive oil... and then I saw these at T&T supermarket (I biked over there yesterday afternoon).I have no idea what I'm going to do with them. Maybe they're something that I add to soup, or grind up, or just munch on for a snack (like dried capelin, which my Dad used to buy long ago in M
Yes, I finished the soup!
Published on 2010-04-24 18:29:00
But forgot to blog about it!It ended up taking the whole evening to make the stock, so I made the soup the following evening.I had two bunches of wild leeks, and I cut them apart at the bottom of the leaf.Sautéed the bulbs and stems along with a couple of onions, and then added the stock from the previous night together with some potatoes, cut into 6 to 8 pieces each, depending on the size of the potato. There were probably about 3 pounds of potatoes. Also added some black pepper. Would have ad