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Monthly Menu Planning

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 31, 2012
The latest Local Harvest newsletter contained a post about the benefits of monthly meal planning, a technique which coincidentally we just began implementing last month. Previously we’ve been fairly good about weekly meal planning, but doing it by the month simplifies everything by another degree. One of my goals, in addition to having a meal [...]
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Grains and Legumes

By Ang Jordan | Published: March 28, 2011
I love coming back from a shopping trip and having a cabinet full of a variety of grains and legumes. I enjoy seeing the different colors, shapes, and sizes, and imagining what tasty dishes I’ll make. They are an essential accompaniment to fresh local foods, and while it’s typically not easy to get or grow [...]
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Happy Mothers Day

By Ang Jordan | Published: May 9, 2010
ADDED 5/17: Now you can download a large file for your desktop wallpaper. Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there. Here is a bouquet of peonies for you from my mother’s Indiana garden. There are some plants I do miss from my days as a midwestern gardener, and peonies are one of them. [...]
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In Our Kitchen

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 22, 2010
When we picked up our CSA share yesterday I also got some strawberries from a roadside stand (Nolte Farm south of Fairhope on 98). It’s a little place, adjacent to the strawberry field where workers bent among the rows, picking more fruit to refill the emptying tables. Just ahead of me, an older couple had [...]
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On Beginning a New Year

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 3, 2010
I’m one of those people who welcomes a chance at new beginnings, and usually makes resolutions – you’ve seen my annual Earth Day resolutions on this blog. This year, I’m just glad to put 2009 behind me, and hope for better in 2010. As a result of my cancer treatment and recovery, 2009 was not [...]
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Reactions to Pollan’s Latest Magazine Piece

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 9, 2009
Culinate serves up a roundup of reactions on the web to Michael Pollan’s latest New York Times Magazine piece, Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch, which meditates on the paradoxically simultaneous rise of the Food Network and decline of home cookery. Although I can sympathize with some of the criticism (I agree that using [...]
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Lunch and Reusable Containers

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 4, 2009
With fall (or in our case, late summer!) comes the beginning of school, and for moms everywhere that means the beginning of another year of packed lunches. Even though I’ve only been doing it a year, it’s always an effort to find creative, healthy combinations of food that a preschooler will actually eat. Since my [...]
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RIP Hitachi RD-4052

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 3, 2009
Our venerable rice cooker, a hard-working appliance nearly 40 years old, finally had to be retired. The wiring in the plug/connection to the base had gotten faulty. I remember when my dad brought it home from a trip to Louisiana, where one of his clients had given it to him as a gift. He was [...]
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On a Personal Note

By Ang Jordan | Published: March 8, 2009
After a lot of thought, I’ve decided to make public the fact that I’m undergoing treatment for breast cancer, and will be starting chemotherapy soon. It might help to explain the shortage of postings over the last couple of months, and it will also affect my gardening. I don’t intend to discuss my cancer on [...]
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What’s Ahead?

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 20, 2009
Today was inauguration day for President Obama, and my daughter and I celebrated by making cookies (truly a way to turn any occasion festive). We tried to crudely recreate the “Vote for Change” campaign logo, as we’d seen on “some cookies pictured online”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetsbyzoe/3128476233/, and this was the result. Also, we ran out of powdered sugar [...]
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