One of the tips in today’s stories about saving money on your grocery bills was to stock up on staples when they go on sale. But how long can you let those stockpiled items sit around in your house? Here are some guidelines for commonly stockpiled items from consumer magazine ShopSmart:
Butter: 4 months in the [...]
I spent most of last week in Portland, visiting some old friends and their new baby. And their kitchen.
The good news: In my month without a kitchen of my own, I haven’t forgotten how to cook. (Though I did manage to fill the entire first floor of their condo with smoke while making Peach-Spiced Lamb Chops on a [...]
Tomorrow’s column is all about food blogs. So I’ll send out the query here, too: Which food blogs do you read? Any favorites that you’d recommend I check out? Any Eastern Iowans out there with food blogs?
Fellow Gazette staffer Todd Dorman is looking for some recommendations for great Mexican food over on his blog, 24Dorman. So, foodies, where do you like to get your south-of-the-border fix? Recommended so far: Villa Patio in Marion (one of my favorites), La Salsita, Gringo’s (really?!) and Hacienda/Casa las Glorias. Hop over and add to the comments [...]
I’m thinking maybe I should stop writing about food, and spend more time baking it. Specifically, cookies. More specifically, cookies like Carolyn Gurtz’s Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies.
Her simple recipe — it uses refrigerated cookie dough as its base — took the $1 million Grand Prize in this year’s Pillsbury Bake-Off. Oh, and she also won an [...]
Lessons learned in the first week of remodeling:
1. Just because everything in your kitchen has been working OK for the last 5 years does not mean your wiring is up to code. Budget for an electrician. That includes both time and money. Double both estimates.
2. Eating dinner on the couch is fun for one day. Maybe. [...]
Did you catch last weekend’s Saturday Accent cover story from young adult reporter Carly Weber? She wrote a short article about the BYO bag trend:
Paper? Plastic?
How ’bout neither.
Plastic is out. The petroleum used to make just 14 plastic bags is enough to drive a car a mile, according to a study by the [...]
After talking with CSA farmers and supporters for a story that ran last month, I was convinced that I needed to try one out. Everyone was just so enthusastic about the quality of food, the culinary challenges of using the ingredients (rather than the recipe) as your starting point when planning a meal, and the [...]
In today’s column, I gave you Martha Stewart’s recipe for a meatloaf cake.
I first learned about meatloaf cake a couple of years ago when a friend forwarded me a link to BlackWidowBakery.com’s meatcake. I love the T-bone frosting. Anyway, apparently the web site made the rounds. Black Widow Bakery has a photo gallery full of [...]
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