Howdy Pollanesquers!

I'm wondering what people have for snacks, especially at work. Right now I take in trail mix and yogurt with fruit/cereal. I've been having those, for, well, a while, and would really appreciate other ideas.

So, what do y'all do when you get those rumblies in your tumblies?

The link to the "Foodie Food Storage" article got me wishing I had more info about a few things. Sharon Astyk writes:

[I]t is worth remembering that the peasant cuisines that we base much of our best food upon never contained meat, milk and eggs in the quantities we have them now, never ate them all year round. That is, no one ever ate osso buco ( Read more... )

I've been reading Mark Bittman's [Food Matters] today, and now I'm at the recipe section - the recipe section that is full of beans ( Read more... )

*waves hello*

Here's a question for the group, posted at dogeared 's excellent suggestion.

Like many, part of my resolution for 2009 is to eat better and cook more, and when it comes to lunch, that's fine - largely because salads are easy and variable and fun, and because I like yogurt. Dinner is -so- much harder, especially in the winter, when I'm craving ( Read more... )

Hi everyone ( Read more... )

I have been cooking (with varying degrees of success) and trying to eat locally (with - really, really varying degrees of success) since 2001, and in all that time I have never figured out vegetable broth ( Read more... )

In one of those inevitable situations that comes with gardening, we have a sudden bumper crop of truly enormous zucchini. Does anyone happen to have any good recipes or resources? (Zucchini crafts, perhaps? Zucchini construction? We have enough of it to build a small fortress.) Alternatively, if anyone lives in the Ann Arbor area and would like ( Read more... )

Ahhahhaa no seriously I slay me ( Read more... )

So, I have myself convinced that I don't like beets, but I'll be the first to admit I probably haven't really given them a good try ( Read more... )

I've been stopping by our Wednesday morning farmers' market every week and having so much fun seeing things come and go (goodbye, rhubarb; hello, strawberries!), and discovering things I never even knew existed (or were edible), like this week's garlic scapes.

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