food

I learned to love gazpacho when working summers at the Warren Store in the Deli. Before that, the idea of cold soup was completely unknown to me. There we'd make gazpacho 5 gallons at a time, and it would go pretty…

Americans love refrigeration, and eggs are high on the list of items we rush to get into the refrigerator after a trip to grocery store. Meanwhile, our culinary compatriots in Europe, Asia and other parts of world…

It's time for the MHVLUG Anniversary, which means geeky baked goods. Thanks much to a trusty friend with a Thing-o-matic I've added Daleks and Tardises to go with Tux . Enjoy the pictures.

Given that trickiness, I’ve started to wonder why pepper gets such Cadillac placement on the American table, sitting beside the salt shaker at every coffee shop and kitchen counter in the country. Why, too, do so many…

Wednesday is the last MHVLUG meeting of the year, as well as the last MHVLUG meeting at the Mid Hudson Library System Auditorium. In honor of that, I decided to make Tux Cookies. First I made regular sugar cookies...…

We just returned from a road trip of a vacation, where we visited many friends and family. It was sort of like the vacations we've taken in far away lands, except instead of jumping on a plane or a train every 2 - 4…

While we seem to have 2 (sometimes as many as 5) sushi restaurants in every town in Dutchess County, we've been really lacking on good Indian restaurants. Our favorite up until this week was Tanjore down in Fishkill. But…

I'm always looking for good simple drinks that involve lots of real fruit and basic liquor that you've already got in your liquor cabinet. After coming home from picking 6lbs of blueberries, I eventually found a recipe…

Susan and I were out black raspberry berry picking this weekend when we can across a type of berry neither of us could readily identify. A camera phone picture, and some internet searching later and we figured out what…

Baking powder and baking soda. Both of them are used so frequently in quick baking projects that unless you are a recipe developer, rarely do you consider what each of them actually does for your finished product. How…

Yay for fresh veggies off the farm

Our christmas tree this year. Everything on the tree (minus lights) is edible, as per tradition.

I just finished listening to the audio book of the Omnivore's Dilemma, which was great, but I'll get to that after a brief digression. I've been listening to a decent number of audio books over the past few years, but…

The NY Times has a pretty incredible article on why E-Coli keeps showing up in ground beef . The whole article is worth reading, but this bit gives you the flavor of it. The frozen hamburgers that the Smiths ate, which…

My mom gave us this book over the holidays, and it's incredible. We're part of both the Poughkeepsie Farm Project and the Winter Sun CSA. This means that right now we've got lots of bags of root vegetables and squash.…

Favorite thing heard at the Winter Sun CSA pickup yesterday: We'll send out an email once the website goes live. We were hoping it would be up by now, but we've been having problems. I never thought that one of the…

Foul Plea: one chicken's appeal for a smarter food system This was made by IBM. Things like this are part of what keeps me proud to be at IBM.

The name and the image caught my attention when looking through RSS. Given that finding a place we can all eat ends up being difficult at times, something like this might be quite helpful. :) And I, for one, welcome the…