Remember weekday lunches when you were a kid? When I was in middle school, the administration would send home a monthly calendar of the cafeteria's hot meals, which my mother posted on the refrigerator. It was up to me to check the calendar on school nights and tell her whether to leave lunch money or … Continue reading Lunch Break: Satisfying Winter Salad
Following are some of my favorite food and beverage winners, product stories, and unexpected connections from this year's Good Food Awards Marketplace. (I could post for days about all the delicious creations I tasted, but in the interest of time and space, I've listed just some of my favorites.) I encourage you to check out … Continue reading GFA Marketplace: Favorite Tastes, Interesting Stories, and Unexpected Connections
This time of year, you'd be hard pressed to get me out of bed before sunrise on a chilly Saturday morning. Unless, of course, there's an incentive, like a major shoe sale... or a perhaps a fest of award-winning food. This past Saturday it was The Good Food Awards Marketplace that had me up before … Continue reading Field Trip: Good Food Awards Marketplace in San Francisco
Had enough of year-end wrap-ups, lists, and "best of's"? Me too. Sure, it's nice to see a year's worth of progress and celebrate the successes (especially if you've got a glass of bubbly in hand), but let's look forward, not back. Rather than review all the delicious food finds, seasonal cocktails, and food travel experiences … Continue reading Eat Local: La Biscotteria in Redwood City
Do you have a "Leftovers Night" at your house? Or a day when you clean out the bits and bobs that have been lingering in your refrigerator? You know what I mean: those three limpy, sad carrots that are too soft for salad, or one lonely baby bok choy whose only hope of being saved … Continue reading Waste-Less Wednesday: Carrot Top Pesto
FINALLY we've been getting some much-needed rain here in the 650. (Damn, wish I'd remembered to cover the patio furniture before that started!) Unfortunately, for those of us prone to sinus-related misery -- colds, infections, allergies, and the like -- the season's first round of feeling-under-the-weather ick has blown in with the rain. Ugh. Yes, … Continue reading Eat Local: Comfort Me
When I sat down to write today's post, I was contemplating a retrospective of the past year, given that today is 650Food's first birthday (awww, it's gone so fast -- hard to believe it's been a year since that first post). Turns out a lot went on this past year -- from discovering new family-run … Continue reading In Which I Make Grenadine
I awoke on Halloween morning to darkened skies and this odd plink-plink-plink sound. I live in an older home, which means the household fix-it list grows daily, and my first thought was "Oh f---. Now what?!" It took a minute of coming to and realizing that it was raining outside, and what I was hearing … Continue reading Eat Local: How ‘Bout Them Melons?
A few weeks ago, I posted about the nutritious, flavorful, fresh, wild salmon that has been available in our 650 markets. Sadly, as many good things do, the commercial fishing season for wild salmon has come to an end. Our California king salmon fishing season actually ended a month ago, and we've been seeing fresh, … Continue reading Wild Salmon: Gone, Baby, Gone
When I started getting CSA deliveries of fresh, organic produce last year, I was like a kid on Christmas morning (the kind of kid who didn't sneak into mom's closet to see what Santa was bringing). Every delivery was a surprise -- with the added bonus that having fresh fruits and vegetables delivered to my … Continue reading Out of the Box: What I’ve Learned
