Who doesn’t have a favorite grocery store? There’s something comforting about visiting your favorite store from knowing exactly where everything is to seeing the same cashiers. My friends in Raleigh, NC swear by Harris Teeter, in Georgia it was Publix, and if you’re ever in the Asheville, NC area you have to check out Greenlife [...]
Entries from May 2008
Grocery Store Choice
May 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Uncategorized
Cooking with Tofu
May 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tofu is a staple in most vegetarian or vegan diets. It is relatively inexpensive and is a good source of protein. It is also relatively tasteles. While that might not sound great on the surface and it certainly isn’t if you eat tofu by itself, but it means when mixed with other [...]
Tags: Tips · vegan · vegetarian
A Tea Follow-up
May 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Heavy Tweed Jacket posted about tea as well and thought I would share:
What do you like to have to drink in the A of M? Is it a traditional beverage, prepared in a Time-Honored-Traditional-Manner? As has been stated in an earlier post, HTJ likes a hot cup of tea - preferably Darjeeling brewed from loose [...]
Tags: Uncategorized
Meat Temperatures and Cooking
May 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Most recipes for a roast or other meat dishes will instruct you to cook at a certain temperature for a certain period of time. This works more or less but what about those times your meat comes out dry or over cooked even though you followed the instructions exactly. Every cook and kitchen [...]
In Defense of Tea
May 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Why does coffee get all the glory? Almost every city or town, big or small has a coffee shop of some sort. Why are there so few tea houses or tea shops in comparison? Ask for a cup of tea in a coffee shop and you are treated like a second class [...]
Tags: Tips