Posts Tagged ‘freshtable’
Went to the grocery store yesterday.
Last week was the final of the farmer’s markets for the year, and so to buy the things I must buy (let’s just call it, ohhh, “food so I don’t perish”), I headed on down to the local supermarket.
I was instantly reminded of Don DeLillo’s White Noise:
“Apples and lemons tumbled [...]
Summer’s done. Fall’s getting its swerve on. It’s harvest season, which sounds like it could be the tagline to a cool horror-action movie. I’d emerge from the shadows of a bleak and wretched orchard, wearing a broad-brim hat and a black duster. In one hand, a double-barrel shotgun. In the other, nothing at all, [...]
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It’s been a while. Way back when, in the Epicurean Era known as “May, 2009,” I discussed starting a little something-something over the summer, an eating experiment called, dun dun dun:
The Fresh Table Experiment.
The goal there was, as Michael Pollan puts it, to eat products that are more “food” than “food science.”
Seems like a [...]
I had fresh blueberries, but wasn’t sure what to do with them.
I decided I wanted savory. I looked online for recipes, and I wasn’t sold on any one recipe, but saw lots of good individual components.
So, I set to the time-honored tradition of “Making Shit Up.”
The result? This.
Savory Blueberry Sauce
Ingredients:
1 carton fresh blueberries (2-3 cups)
1/2 [...]
Okay, here you go, a quick recipe for Friday. Lately, as you may know, I’ve been committing to this whole “Fresh Table Experiment” thing — blah blah blah, eat locally, or organically, reduce intake of processed foods, frequent local farms and markets, and what-nottery.
So, I wanted to make dumplings.
But, I didn’t have the time to [...]
