Do you care about food lists?

This morning, The New York Times’ Well blog has a list of “The 11 best foods you aren’t eating.” The list of healthful foods “that are easy to find but don’t always find their way into our shopping carts” includes beets, cabbage, Swiss chard, cinnamon, pomegranate juice, dried plums (prunes), pumpkin seeds, sardines, turmeric, frozen blueberries and [...]

CSA, week 3

Considering the weather, I didn’t really even expect to get any veggies from my CSA this week. But, amazingly, not only did ZJ Farms survive the powerful winds and damaging floods (minus one 102-year-old barn), the folks there were able to get out into the muddy fields to harvest fresh veggies.
So, here’s the full share [...]

Who do you read?

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?

A sweet send off: Two cupcake recipes

 
I decided to send my oven off on a sweet note by spending Sunday morning experimenting with cupcake recipes I found on other food blogs.
First, Billy’s Vanilla, Vanilla Cupcakes from “The Cupcake Queen” at 52 Cupcakes, because I. Love. Vanilla.
Second, a slightly modified version of Bailey’s Mint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes from Baking Bites, because Bailey’s [...]

An easy way to search food blogs

Vanilla Garlic tipped me off to a new recipe search engine created by another food blogger (yes, there are a lot of us) over at Simply Recipes.
Food Blog Search uses Google technology to search more than 1,000 food blogs (with more blogs being added to the list of sites searched every day). It’s pretty cool — and a [...]