Danny Jensen | 5 days ago | Comments (0)
Irish Soda Bread. Photo: citymama Flickr Photostream/Creative Commons
St. Patrick's Day brings out the Irish in everyone, so this year, go the extra green mile and cook up some sustainable St. Paddy's recipes to fuel your green beer-soaked revelry.
Nothing says Ireland more than a loaf of fresh-baked Irish soda bread, mouth-watering corned beef and cabbage, or a slice of heavenly chocolate Guinness cake. So, don your leprechaun hat, put on your "Kiss me, I'm Irish" T-shirt and get cooking!
Soda bread is a classic staple of the Irish diet (okay, maybe not as much as the potato), and a fun and easy way to try your hand at baking bread. This recipe from The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters calls for buttermilk, so find a dairy near you that sells milk from grass-fed cows—much healthier for you, the cow and the planet. Finding local flour can be a bit of a challenge, but the number of small-scale growers and mills is growing all the time. More
Danny Jensen | 1 year ago | Comments (1)
St. Patrick's Day brings out the Irish in everyone, so this year, go the extra green mile and cook up some sustainable St. Paddy's recipes to fuel your green beer soaked revelry. My Irish ancestry certainly shines a little brighter around this time of year, and nothing transports me back to Ireland more quickly than digging into fresh baked Irish soda bread, mouth-watering corned beef and cabbage, or a slice of heavenly chocolate Guinness cake. Okay, so I don't think I actually had the cake while studying on the Emerald Isle, but I never complain when my friend Sarah whips one up. So, don your leprechaun hat, put on your "Kiss me I'm Irish" T-shirt and get cooking!
Soda Bread is a classic staple of the Irish diet (okay, maybe not as much as the potato), and a fun and easy way to try your hand at baking bread. This recipe from Alice Waters' The Art of Simple Food calls for buttermilk, so find a diary near you that sells milk from grass-fed cows, which is much healthier for you, the cow and the planet. Finding local flour can be a bit of a challenge, but the number of small-scale growers and mills is growing all the time.
3 3/4 cups unbleached all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
2 cups buttermilk
1. Preheat oven to 450°F.
2. Measure flour, salt and soda and mix together in a large bowl. More
Kerry Trueman | 2 years ago | Comments (1)
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East Harlem and East LA may be a continent apart, but they have one geographic trait in common: they're both "food deserts," i.e., neighborhoods where it's often easier to buy drugs and guns than greens or oranges. Not coincidentally, residents of both places also suffer disproportionately high rates of diabetes and obesity, as do inner city communities all across the nation.
Our warped agricultural policies have created a two-tier food chain in which fresh, healthy produce has become a luxury for affluent consumers while low-income families fill their pantries and fridges with nutritionally bankrupt commodity crop-based processed crap subsidized by our tax dollars. We're gonna get stuck with the tab for an awful lot of insulin shots, too, if we don't start giving folks an alternative to this diabetes-inducing diet.
Everyone from community gardeners to policy makers is scrambling to bring more fruits and vegetables into underserved urban communities. But that's only half the battle. Raw food may be all the rage from Santa Monica to Soho, but most of us still prefer to sit down to a nice, hot meal, even if we can't figure out how to prepare it ourselves. People who've come to rely entirely on convenience foods and take-out don't know what to make of"or make with"fresh fruits and vegetables.
But what if somebody handed them a nifty little cookbook chock full of easy-to-make recipes for wholesome comfort foods? I mean, just gave it away, for nothing? More
