I have a 50 LB bag of jasmine rice currently sitting in my kitchen. We are only two, but we are splitting this bag with another couple, and that should last us for most of the year. Yes, we use alot of rice….”we’re rice men”* after all! I absolutely love all kinds of rice like [...]
Sweetie and I started eating vegetarian on Mondays a few months ago and it is really amazing all the recipes we already had and all the new recipes we have come up with. Now it seems that we are eating less and less meat during the rest of the week too! Fish on Fridays, Bean [...]
Canning is such a joyful experience. The canning pot on the stove, the pot with the lids and rims steaming and the jars in a pan with lots of soap and hot water to rinse! One can pick and choose the ingredients for a recipe or just throw things together and see what happens. I’ve [...]
Having a dinner party is really stressful. Some pointers: bread is already cooked and heated at the last minute; desserts either already cooked as in a pie or cake or frozen as in an ice cream or brought by someone else (the best solution!); factoid: if your main dish is finished in the oven, your [...]
It’s starting to get cold, we’re spending more time indoors, it is also cold and flu season, and with the onset of earlier darkness, I start to turn to comfort foods. You know – those foods that make you feel better. The foods that you turn to when you are feeling lonesome or you [...]
From Seeing the Forest As long as we use these mental frames of industries and companies as sentient entities we will make these mistakes. When we hear that a company has an opinion or an interest, we are not hearing from Bob in Sales or Alice in Accounts Receivable, they are told from the top. [...]
Preface to the First Edition: “But for life the universe were nothing: and all that life has requires nourishment.”
Texas Governor Fights U.S. Ethanol Rule That Raises Food Costs By Alan Bjerga and Jim Efstathiou Jr. July 21 (Bloomberg) — Rising U.S. gasoline prices and the growing world food crisis will clash this week when the Bush administration decides whether to relax rules requiring greater use of ethanol in auto fuels. Texas Governor Rick [...]
July 21, 2008 5:58 PM ABC News’ Charles Herman reports: Don’t expect lower prices in the grocery aisles any time soon. Food prices are expected to rise 4.5 percent to 5 percent this year and then another 4 percent to 5 percent in 2009, according to a government forecast to be released this week from [...]