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Fresh Tofu, Right Off the Farm
This sounds more serious than it actually is, but I just ran out of tofu. We pick and choose what, and how, we want to eat, and the more we know how to cook, the better we choose, and eat. Garden...
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Trickling Economics
Well, gosh Beave. Since everyone else is talking about economics these days, it’s time for me to throw my (gorgeous, handknitted) hat in the ring. While I do realize that I’m not a lettered expert in...
View ArticleQuick, Cheap, Simple French Bread Recipe
Homemade bread doesn’t taste anything like what you’re accustomed to buying in the store — Thank God. If you’ve never made bread before, cut yourself some slack — your first loaves may not be picture...
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Empowerment: Making Your Own Bread
Back in the 1970s, the status symbol for school-aged children who brought their lunch in a brown bag (we did that back then) was Wonderbread. White, squishy, soft, building our little bodies in 12...
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The Politics of Pinching Peaches
Generally, the produce department of a grocery store is a quiet place. Pinching peaches, while it is a dreadful practice, doesn’t result in sounds from the peaches. I imagine, however, that the people...
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Recipe: Chicken and Quinoa Soup with Cubed Delicata Squash
Soup is fast, easy, cheap, nutritious, and flexible. If you don’t have some of the ingredients, don’t worry: use rice instead of quinoa; pumpkin in place of delicata squash; leftover chicken instead...
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Awash with Squash
It was a dark and stormy night. The garden didn’t look like this on the night that the men harvested the squash. But then again, the men didn’t look like the girl in the painting, either. Promenade by...
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Let Freedom Ring — Start with School Lunch
Well, so the election is coming up, or sort of happening, the excitement of an actual election day long watered down by a two or three or four-week voting “process.” Somehow, it’s just not the same...
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Mr. Smith Stays out of Washington
Tired-of-Being-Youngest is attending culinary school, which I assure you is just as delicious as it sounds. I can’t wait until spring quarter, when she studies Baking and Pastries, and am sure that I...
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If Pumpkins Were Money, I’d Be Rich
Before we get started, allow me to say that I’ve changed my name from Middle Aged Plague to This Woman Writes, where I will eventually be transferring my posts and writing. Please, if you are a regular...
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