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budget freezer recipe suggestions?
Hi, all! I'm a graduate student with a minor quandry: I'm currently profoundly bored with most of my stock of freezable recipes. I'm trying to eat well on a (fairly minimal) budget, and I'm running up against some problems that I suspect a lot of folks have, which are that a) it's very hard to cook for just one person, and b) food is expensive! If ( Read more... ) -
regulation vs artisanal food
This article from The Economist on California's over-regulation of artisanal food vendors reminded me a bit about Joel Salatin's criticisms of regulation that is designed for large companies and ridiculous for small ones: Beware of the yogurt. -
ada corporate sponsors
http://www.eatright.org/corporatesponsors/
yes, the good folks at the ada, who tell us and our hcps what foods are supposedly healthiest to eat, are proudly supported by such *cough* healthy food manufacturers as coke, pepsi, mars, and hershey... -
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Sadly, we haven't been able to plant anything these past two years. I'd tried to grow tomatoes a few years ago, but that was a flop, and this year, by the time we actually had time to start considering what to plant, it was too late to start. We'd like at least a couple pots of herbs, but for some reason the gardening store where we get our ( Read more... ) -
Wow
This is perhaps the penultimate reason as to why HFCS is bad for you. Not that I was ever under any delusion that it was good for people, but he lays out, in painstaking biochemical detail, how it all works. It was originally linked to in this NYT article, which is, in itself worth reading.
Happily for us, this coincides with my boyfriend's ( Read more... ) -
Robyn O'Brien at TEDxAustin
Great speech from the author of The Unhealthy Truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rixyrCNVVGA
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Hey all, I just popped the seal on a jar of active dry yeast. Where should I store it now, and about how long of a shelflife has it got?
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BECAUSE (a relevant rant)
“BECAUSE” (spoken word piece by Pablo Das ( Read more... ) -
Recipe: Steel-Cut Oatmeal and Blueberry Muffins
With spring approaching in the northern hemisphere, I finally feel able to splurge a little on the remaining fruits I have frozen from last summer. Made these muffins today, and oh my word, they're so delicious.
Original recipe here: my adaptations are in my notes, below.
ingredients1 1/2 cups whole-wheat flour ( Read more... ) -
Link: Quinoa's Global Success Creates Quandry At Home
From yesterday's NYTimes:
demand for quinoa (pronounced KEE-no-ah) is soaring in rich countries, as American and European consumers discover the “lost crop” of the Incas. The surge has helped raise farmers’ incomes here in one of the hemisphere’s poorest countries. But there has been a notable trade-off: Fewer Bolivians can now afford it, ( Read more... )