Delicious Cauliflower

August 26, 2013

...It’s a good, reliable book. Lately I’ve been on a deep Middle Eastern jag, cooking out of this book every day. Erik is in hog heaven, because he hasn’t had to cook in weeks. I’m in heaven because I’m eating exactly what I’m craving. Anyway, back to the cauliflower. It’s an easy recipe that comes from north-west Syria, where, according to the author, it is considered a regional specialty. It has a lovely, rich flavor. I never knew tomatoes and caul...

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Salt Sugar Fat

Mr. Homegrown

March 4, 2014

Reviews

21 Comments

...ustry representatives in the latte half of the 20th century. Lessons about cooking from scratch receded and were replaced by how to use cake mixes and shop for appliances. But the primary focus of the book is how food industry has found ways to amplify our cravings. They’ve carefully calculated “bliss points,” the exact amount of unhealthy ingredients to add to a particular food to make us desire more. Moss quotes Kraft food CEO Geoffrey Bible, Th...

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095 Bean Holes and Deep Fried Turkeys with Eric Rochow of Garden Fork

Mr. Homegrown

November 16, 2016

Food, Podcasts

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...he corner in the US it’s time to rock the friends and family with some new cooking traditions. How about baking beans in a hole or deep frying your turkey? I discuss these topics, plus how to plant garlic with Eric Rochow of Garden Fork. Eric’s got some great how-to videos: Bean Hole Baked Beans 10 Tips on How to Fry Turkey Cooking Steak on Charcoal How to Plant Garlic Source for garlic: Filaree Farm Build it Better Yourself (Rodale) Make sure to...

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Quarantine Meals From Jennie Cook

Mr. Homegrown

April 15, 2020

Food

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...ed back to what she used to do: cook home meals for pickup and delivery. Her food is delicious and the portions are generous. If you live in the Los Angeles area consider ordering some food from her. It will support Jennie and her employees and you’ll get a break from cooking. On Saturday Jennie sent over a package with an Easter ham dinner. While I’ve enjoyed cooking from scratch for the past four weeks it was nice to have a special meal for a ch...

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Thomas Pynchon on Pizza

Mr. Homegrown

September 30, 2021

Food, Thoughtstylings

2 Comments

...on. Blog reader BLDinMT left a kind comment responding to my silly post on cooking out of the Café Gratitude cookbook which triggered a memory of a passage in Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland. I don’t remember much about the novel but I do remember Pynchon’s spot-on description of 1970s era California health food cooking, Prairie worked at the Bodhi Dharma Pizza Temple, which a little smugly offered the most wholesome, not to mention the slowest, f...

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