Posts under ‘Food’

As I was shopping for the Hunger Challenge and pondering the budget-friendly combo of potatoes and eggs, it occurred to me that one of my very favorite Spanish recipes is also one of the most economical ones I know. Tortilla español, with its simple combination of flavors, is just an advanced version of a frittata, [...]

On Saturday night, at BlogHer Food, Gayle Keck of Been There Ate That and I started talking about bacon. Fact is, and I’m not giving anything away here, since Gayle already talked about this on her blog, cheap bacon just isn’t as good as expensive bacon. She warned me about this, but since I hadn’t [...]

On Sunday morning, I stopped at Heinold’s to drop off my purse with a couple of friends who were already set up with their bloody marys and plates of food from the Jack London Square Farmer’s Market. “I’m going to try to get all my shopping done for the week at the farmer’s market for [...]

This is what I’ve already learned this week: $7 makes a tremendous difference when shopping for a week’s worth of food. Last year’s Hunger Challenge allowed each of the participants to shop for $21 of food for the week. I managed to clock in at just under $20 for the week, but it was one [...]

This post originally appeared on BlogHer, but I thought this was important enough that I wanted to share it with my Inadvertent readers, as well. I remember a few things about school lunches growing up. I remember that, most of the time, I brought lunch from home rather than eating lunch at school. I remember [...]

National Farmer’s Market Week is August 2-8, a week where even the markets in the harshest zones of the U.S. climate should be bursting with amazing produce. Tomato season’s in full swing, people. Take. Advantage. (And if you don’t like tomatoes, buy some anyway and just mail ‘em to me.) Over at The Huffington Post, [...]

At my office, we spend an awful lot of time thinking about food systems and ways to get fresh fruits and vegetables in the hands of underserved communities. This is just one of the reasons I love my job—how many people get to go to work and do something that actually aligns with what they [...]

As I said on Friday, my Fourth of July mission was to serve a fully local meal. It’s a small, symbolic gesture, I know, but I have to say, I feel better when I know who grew the food I’m eating. (Or, if we’re talking fish or fowl or meat, who caught it, raised it, [...]

If you’re an organized person, you planned your Fourth of July menu weeks ago. You have a little menu card, a shopping list. Actually, you probably already shopped. But if you’re the rest of us, there’s still time to prepare properly for the Fourth of July. And by properly, I mean, there’s time to declare [...]

When I was a little kid, my Grammy used to cook up beet greens studded with tiny baby beets, a dish that I both dreaded and adored. Finding the little beets were like going on a treasure hunt, but I always found the greens too bitter for my taste. That has all changed as an [...]