Year: 2014

FOOD FUN: Watermelon People

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We received an email from Bean Sprouts Café and Cooking School, which focuses on better-for-you food for kids and families. As is our wont, we went to check out the website and found these watermelon people. It reminded us that it was time to get out the cookie cutters and have fun with our food…
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BOOK: Everyday Cheesemaking

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Are you ready to make cheese? Photo courtesy Microcosm Publishing.   A copy of this small paperback arrived yesterday. We picked it up and read it straight through to the end. It’s a real page-turner, and we’ve never even thought about making cheese. (O.K., we did make mozzarella once, from a kit, and made butter…
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PRODUCT: Gourmet Lassi From That Indian Drink

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We wish Ipshita Pall would invite us to dinner. Now that we’ve had her lassi yogurt drink, we’re dying to taste her food. Ms. Pall is a trained French culinary chef experienced in Indian-Latin fine dining. We enjoy all lassi, but so far, we like That Indian Drink’s products the best. Chef-crafted, they use fresh…
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RECIPE: Homemade Tomato Ketchup

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Not surprisingly, cookbook author Danielle Walker makes her own condiments. Why? They deliver better flavor than mass-produced products, and in the case of tomato ketchup and barbecue sauce, a better sweetener than high fructose corn syrup, and less sweetener. Danielle is following up on her the Paleo Diet-focused Against All Grain (10 months on the…
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RECIPE: Adult Ice Pops

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Here’s a way to enjoy Happy Hour in the heat: Turn your favorite fruit cocktail into an adult ice pop. We started with the Margarita, re-interpreting the Strawberry Frozen Margarita as a Strawberry Margarita Ice Pop. You can substitute the fruit and spirits to adapt your favorite cocktail. Prep time: is 15 minutes plus freezing…
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