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Whether you call it a zucchini flower or a courgette flower, this flower is a delicacy lightly battered and deep fried, tempura-style...
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Last night I attended an organic fundraising dinner for the Children's Eternal Rainforest...
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Deep green goodness is best enjoyed from leafy greens that are as fresh as possible. These giant chard leaves were picked from my garden and steamed within 24 hours. Once you've tasted veggies as fresh as this, you'll understand why so many cooks become gardeners...
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ONCE you become accustomed to gas at $4 a gallon, brace yourself for the next shocking retail threshold: bananas reaching $1 a pound. At that price, Americans may stop thinking of bananas as a cheap staple, and then a strategy that has served the big banana companies for more than a century — enabling them to turn an exotic, tropical fruit into an everyday favorite — will begin to unravel. The immediate reasons for the price increase are the rising cost of oil and reduced supply caused by floods in Ecuador, the world’s biggest banana exporter...
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This is an extract of an interview with Californian organic restauranteur Alice Waters, published April 29, 2008. What’s in your kitchen? A fireplace that I can cook in and big windows that look out to my garden. There is no equipment, as such; certainly not machines. I have lots of pestles and mortars, a rather small stove, a big table to eat at and a big table to cook on. I mostly buy food at the market and use it pretty much right away...
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US farmers have been given the green light to produce cloned meat for the human food chain. In a report billed as a "final risk assessment" of the technology, the US Food and Drug Administration has concluded that healthy cloned animals and products from them such as milk are safe for consumers. The announcement follows the launch of a public consultation on the issue by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)...
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by Ysanne Spevack 3 medium onions, peeled and diced 3 medium carrots, peeled and diced 3 stalks celery, plus the inner leaves, chopped 4 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed 4 tablespoons bacon fat or olive oil 4 cups / 700g mixed yellow and green split peas, soaked overnight 6 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce 2 teaspoons dried rosemary 2 teaspoons dried thyme 2 large or 5 small bay leaves freshly ground pepper 2 quarts / 2 litres chicken or vegetable broth (stock) 1 quart / 1 litre water 1 lb / 450g ham, cubed into 1/2” chunks, optional salt and pepper, to taste 1...
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This recipe comes with a no frills guarantee... Perfect Gingerbread. Low fuss, high moisture, delicate yet rich. 2 1/2 cups / 300 grams all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 teaspoons ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cloves 1 stick / 120 grams butter, softened 1/2 cup / 100 grams unrefined cane sugar 1 cup / 250 ml dark molasses 1 tablespoon honey 1 cup / 250 ml boiling water 2 teaspoons baking soda (not baking powder!) 2 eggs, lightly beaten You will need: A non-stick 8 inches or 20 cm square cake pan A sieve 2 large mixing bowls 1 small mixing bowl A wooden spoon An electric or hand whisk 1...
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Some of our most cherished childhood memories center on food preparation, and Christmas is a fantastic opportunity for getting children into the kitchen...
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Ysanne, hello. Love your book Grow Organic Cook Organic. My wife bought it for me for Christmas. One of our favorite recipes is the Butternut Squash Soup with Tomato Salsa...
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Dear Ysanne, It's fantastic dealing with you. You are so helpful and enthusiastic about helping people. You are also so efficient. You have so much energy too - aside from editing for Dmoz.org , running your busy and successful website, writing your specialist books, researching the world of organic food, and, I'm sure, many other things...
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Hi, I work with a law firm that is investigating the sales of organic milk from Costco, Safeway and Wild Oats. According to investigations the milk labeled organic, and being sold at higher prices, is in fact not organic according to USDA regulations. The milk production process used by these three stores is found to have over 14 violations of USDA regulations...
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