What with the dearth of fruit in the lower Midwest this year, I’ve hardly gotten to do any canning. In fact, this tomato jam is all I’ve done. And that’s a bummer, since I’ve been just looking for an excuse to try out my latest equipment acquisition: my Big Kahuna Burner from Eastman Outdoors. Don’t […]
READ ONA friend asked me the other day if the tomato jam recipe I posted two weeks (or so) ago can be canned. The answer is yes, the recipe I put up is in fact intended for canning, and now that I’m back up and around I plan to do that very thing (maybe even today). […]
READ ONIn general I prefer to have my word be the last one and just leave it at that. Though I did receive another small flurry of nasty-grams referring to my stance on fast food (specifically, my refusal to denounce it as the work of Beelzebub). I’m not going to put up any excerpts, though suffice […]
READ ONLike most Americans, we in the Pastry household spent the day yesterday marking the anniversary of the death of Tomás de Torquemada. In the event you neglected to observe this world-historical holiday, you may do so today by going here.
READ ONYou don’t hear about it much in the popular press, but there’s been a steady mumbling in food circles the last few months about the changes that have been taking place at the Food Network. Specifically, that it’s gotten a lot less interested in teaching people about food, and much more interested in what some […]
READ ON…but I know I’ve been danced with. Still a little unsteady today but I may actually get around to baking something later.
READ ONIt may seem as though the only thing I have the energy to do is sit around being cranky about food legislation. That’s not true, for in fact I can be cranky about a great many other things. At the moment I’m cranky about other peoples’ crankiness, specifically the two people who wrote in to […]
READ ONThankfully, a federal judge has struck down a New York City rule that would have mandated that fast food restaurants list their products’ calorie counts directly on their menu boards. The rule would have impacted all chain restaurants with 10 or more locations, be they local, regional or national, but it doesn’t take a genius […]
READ ONMy good friend Sally C. from Tip of the Iceberg writes in with this piece of advice for all those who live in fear of the dreaded pantry moth: Keep your flour (or cornmeal, whatever) in the freezer to keep the moths from hatching. Far as I know that doesn’t affect it at all. Never […]
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