Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
Drinking in the Spring Down in the capitol of our neighboring state, New Mexico, I’m happy eating New Mexico Enchiladas everyday, every meal. On this trip, my friends were happy to drink Sangria every day, every happy hour out in the perfect dry New Mexico spring weather under our friends
Crackers: Five minutes of mixing a cup of flour (not more than 1/2 dense whole wheat, but any other is fine) with a pinch of salt and a 1/2 teaspoon baking powder with enough water to bind it together and you’re ready to roll out your very own crackers. I
Beef Brisket is in the refrigerator right now, in a zip-lock plastic bag covered with salt and spices like crushed pepper, nutmeg, bay leaf, thyme. It’s been turned once a day for the past week, and weighted down with steel plates because we happen to have them. In a normal
Vegetable Cooking Time By MarthaSmith The Nose Knows How long should asparagus cook? That questions comes up all the time for vegetables. One infallible way to know when a vegetable is cooked is to let your nose decide. You can’t put a number of minutes on any vegetable. There are
By Graham Bremner I’m on a budget, okay. Who’s not these days? I’m not letting that get in the way of eating well. Sure, I’m going for beans as a low priced source of protein, but I’ve put it on a beautiful hunk of bread with nice goat cheese.
— What’s the correct way to make a Black and Tan? So here pictured, you’ll see two ways of making a black and tan. One, on the right, started with black, the Guiness Stout, and then, the tan was poured in afterward. The one on the left was made with
By Martha Smith I wanted to make a spanikopita but did not have any phyllo pastry. I had the ingredients to make a pizza crust and decided to make a spinach pie — part Italian part Greek. Serve as a light main course for dinner or as a party dish
It’s February so Steuart is making a hearty seafood stew. Mussels were on sale — so we took a pound of those, about 1/4 pound of shrimp, fresh barramundi also on sale at WholeFoods, and a calamari steak. All together, we spent less than $10 on fish and that made
Opening night of the Winter Olympic Games 2010, and we’re dog sitting for friends with a taste for wine. And we open the 2005 Atrea Old Soul Red and it was pow of red fruit flavor. Zin-ish but not one dimensional, and it went well with the over-done chocolate pastry
The best pizza crust sits around for a while. We learned that from our trip to Virgilio’s Pizzaria in Lakewood. This explains why when I make pizza dough it just doesn’t have the feel in my hands that comes from a crust from our local pizzeria. Abo’s is a local