Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Aug 23, 2010, 12:17 pm
Back in May, I uploaded Episode 1 and 2 of the Culinary Gardening Series produced in conjunction with Boulder Valley Media Alliance (Channel 22) and Eric Skokan, the owner of Black Cat Farm and Black Cat Farm Table Bistro. Episode 3, as you will see, takes place in Eric's bistro kitchen where he tal...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jul 5, 2010, 1:46 pm
Hello Readers, I'll be on vacation from July 4th. Enjoy my most recent posts or scroll down the right-hand sidebar to "Blog Archive" and peruse posts from previous months and last year. Happy summer! Louise
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jul 1, 2010, 3:50 pm
This morning, on my way to breakfast with friends, I popped into my local Whole Foods Market where I noticed the most glorious bunches of roses. The rose colors were so vibrant and splendid; I stopped, pulled my iphone from my bag, took several photos for posterity, and then bought a bunch. Once at ...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 29, 2010, 2:05 pm
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned a friend had come to visit and brought with her treats from the northwest where she lives. One of those treats was a bottle of marionberry spread, which I wrote about in my post titled Marionberry Rhubarb with CashewNut Cream. Another of the treats was an 8-ounce pa...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 28, 2010, 11:25 am
This morning when I was in the garden, I noticed the pumpkin blossoms blooming (below). It was just this past weekend that I commented on a series of pictures of harvested squash and their blossoms posted by my Facebook friend, British actress and author, Carol Drinkwater. Carol and her husband have...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 24, 2010, 2:15 pm
The July issue of O Magazine features a 10-page spread titled "What Are You Eating." Within those 10 pages are the preferred diets of 10 individuals. Ranging from a fruitarian to an all-day grazer of junk food, from a carnivore who prefers to hunt and kill his own meat to an omnivore with an appeti...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 23, 2010, 10:06 am
Last Friday I mentioned a friend had arrived for a visit. And with her, she brought a bag of goodies including a jar of Oregon marionberry spread. As it turned out, I didn't open the spread while she was here. Instead, this morning I plucked some stems of green rhubarb from the garden, stewed them, ...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 21, 2010, 12:22 pm
One thing that happens when you have access to a garden filled with a selection of spring greens, herbs, and onions is innovation in the kitchen. Though the garden I'm tending while house sitting doesn't have basil growing, it does have parsley, spinach (and lots of other leafy greens) plus a select...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 18, 2010, 12:33 pm
One of the joys of having friends to stay, especially friends who enjoy pottering about in the kitchen, is the likelihood of eating a meal they've prepared. And that's just what happened last night, when a friend of mine flew in from out of town for a visit. Judi, who lives in the northwest, arrived...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 17, 2010, 10:46 am
I have this nifty way of cooking fish on top of the stove so that there is minimal fuss and mess and no fishy smell. As you may be aware, reading my posts, I do a lot of stove-top cooking, sauteing and steaming meals in an iron skillet. I prefer my cast iron skillet over other fry pans because it's...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 16, 2010, 12:01 pm
While I have access to a bounty of garden-fresh salad greens, daily, I'm creating different and interesting ways to eat them. I used to think the loose salad mix at the market was tasty and good value; at around $6.99 pound, I could buy a big bag and make it last a few days. Once spring arrives, the...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 14, 2010, 12:54 pm
My favorite flatbread at the moment is Ezekiel's sprouted grain tortillas. And this Meatless Monday I used them to create a sensational, vegetarian meal-in-a-sandwich. I like the sprouted grain flat-bread because it's moist and chewy and full of chunky bits of sprouted grain, literally! Plus, it's ...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 10, 2010, 3:20 pm
One of my friends teased me about the garden-to-table posts appearing on Market to Mouth this month. I think my days care-taking a property with vegetable garden, fruit trees, chicken and ducks is sounding almost too ideal to some. Pottering about the garden this morning, taking pictures of kale, be...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 8, 2010, 4:29 pm
I've taken to calling my charges, the eleven egg-laying chickens I'm care-taking, "Girls." It's surprisingly easy to feel fond of chickens. Each morning when I let the girls out of their coop into the yard (pic below), they gather about me clucking as though I'm their new best friend! Obviously it's...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 7, 2010, 2:03 pm
There's a funny cartoon on Meatless Monday's homepage: Two hogs are noshing, snout to snout, and one says to the other, "TGIM." In support of Meatless Monday, at the beginning of each week I post one meal idea that's vegetarian -- though MM promotes one whole day completely meat-free (that's three m...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 4, 2010, 12:09 pm
As you're probably aware, if you've read my posts this past week, I'm house-sitting a property just shy of an acre. This involves care-taking a large yard with vegetable garden, young fruit trees, and chicken coop with 11 laying hens, 2 laying ducks, and one bossy black gander. The advantage to my ...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 3, 2010, 4:10 pm
Earlier this week I wrote about the unusual delights of green rhubarb as a savory compote to meats, poultry and fish. With plenty of rhubarb in the garden, I stewed another batch of the fibrous green vegetable and wondered what I might do with it this time. This month, in addition to care-taking a ...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 2, 2010, 3:25 pm
While I have access to a veggie garden bursting with a selection of young tender greens, I'm making the most of it, daily preparing meals from the backyard bounty. A friend commented on yesterday's post asking me if the green rhubarb I'd prepared from the garden tasted different from red rhubarb. My...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Jun 1, 2010, 12:28 pm
A savory, onion scent is wafting through the kitchen as I type. I have green rhubarb on the stove simmering with celery, ginger, apple and onion. We think of rhubarb, which is available early spring, in conjunction with sweet summer fruits like strawberries. Yet because it is sour, it's well suited ...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - May 28, 2010, 5:37 pm
Market to Mouth's theme this week has been meals made from just-picked garden-fresh produce. On Monday, I featured spaghetti squash infused with chervil, served with sides of wild arugula and yellow rapini flowers, and leeks poached with pear. I bought the produce for the Meatless Monday dish from t...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - May 26, 2010, 11:35 am
Last Monday I mentioned that I'd be at Black Cat Farm Table Bistro hosting an upcoming episode of the Culinary Gardening series. With camera gear crammed into his kitchen, we filmed Eric Skokan, the farm and bistro owner, preparing a dish from his daily-changing menu, one that featured vegetables an...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - May 24, 2010, 11:43 am
Last week I uploaded episodes 1 and 2 in the Culinary Gardening series I'm hosting. Filmed in collaboration with Boulder Valley Channel 22 and Eric Skokan, the owner of Black Cat Farm, this past Saturday I visited the Black Cat's stand at our local farmer's market. I wanted to purchase some of the d...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - May 19, 2010, 11:24 am
Culinary Gardens - Black Cat Organic Farms - Part 2 from BVMA on Vimeo. Yesterday, I featured Episode 1 of the Culinary Gardening series produced in conjunction with Boulder Valley Media Alliance (Channel 22), and Eric Skokan, the owner of Black Cat Farm and Black Cat Farm Table Bistro. Today, Epi...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - May 18, 2010, 5:15 pm
Culinary Gardens, Black Cat Organic Farms Part 1 from BVMA on Vimeo. About a month ago, I began working on a Culinary Gardening video series in collaboration with Boulder Valley Media Alliance (Channel 22) and local chef, Eric Skokan, the owner of Black Cat Farm Table Bistro. Eric's situation is un...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - May 17, 2010, 10:03 am
Food is like fashion: trends come and go. One of the trends that has been around awhile is the penchant for stylish restaurants to serve par-cooked vegetables. Now some vegetables are suited to being served and eaten hot and partially raw, like radishes, which we often think of as a cold, salad vegg...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - May 14, 2010, 10:10 am
A number of weeks ago, an email titled "Food Revolution Friday" was sent out to Jamie Oliver fans. From Meatless Monday to Food Revolution Friday -- it's catchy, it's fun! And these campaigns are great educational vehicles for anyone who is interested in learning how to feed themselves, an...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - May 12, 2010, 12:26 pm
If seeing chickens raised in confined, inhumane conditions on an industrial farm disturbs you, then why would you choose to eat those chickens? I posted that question on Facebook after watching an interview with Nicolette Hahn Niman, author of Righteous Porkchop and advocate of animal welfare agric...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - May 11, 2010, 11:41 am
Do you ever wonder what's in your food? You know, as in preservatives, synthetic flavoring and dyes, pesticides, herbicides, hormones, antibiotics ... the list goes on. Read the labeling on any packaged food carefully; it's often horrifying to note the number of chemical acronyms masquer...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - May 10, 2010, 11:03 am
Yesterday I opened a wrapped pack of 2 chicken quarters I'd purchased only to discover that the meat was off. I'd bought the chicken at a small Whole Foods in Boulder. The store is closing soon and I wondered if that had anything to do with the meat-counter associate's carelessness. S...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - May 7, 2010, 11:36 am
While on Phillip Island, Australia, I had several meals out, one in particular was a very long Sunday lunch. A leisurely three-hour meal might seem like a drawn out affair, but the view through dappled light out the second story restaurant, over the esplanade and across the bay was delightful, as w...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - May 4, 2010, 3:19 am
Today I left Phillip Island for Melbourne airport en route back to my adopted home of Boulder, CO. But not before one last sweet with a frothy cappuccino at a local cafe. Over the last couple of weeks I've been indulging in sweet snacks by way of coping with the emotional challenges inherent i...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - May 3, 2010, 2:22 am
I happened upon a Nigella Lawson cooking show on the TV this weekend. The British Domestic Goddess has a thing for comfort foods, in particular eggs, cream, butter and cheese. Nothing wrong with a dash of dairy, it adds richness and flavor to just about any dish and if you're going without me...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 30, 2010, 12:22 am
I'm still on Phillip Island, 2 hours south east of Melbourne, Australia. And after a week's worth of boiled egg on toast with Vegemite for breakfast, this morning I opted for something different: brunch out at Mad Cowes. A clever play on words, Mad Cowes has nothing to do with the disease ...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 28, 2010, 8:43 pm
Yesterday I mentioned the tiny farm isle of Churchill Island where the year-round once-monthly farmer's market is held. Today I'm featuring the third island in south east Australia's Western Port Bay: French Island. Twice the landmass size of Phillip Island, where I've been for the...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 28, 2010, 1:37 am
On my walkabouts around the town of Cowes on Phillip Island yesterday, I noticed a cookware store advertising cooking classes. I popped in to the store to check the lineup of classes and noted that their popular re-run is Vegetarian Meals for Meat Lovers. I'd already posted my Meatless Monday ...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 26, 2010, 3:29 pm
The Meatless Monday movement is going global. Along with the U.S., 7 other countries are participating in the campaign that promotes going without meat the first day of each week, Monday. Those countries are Britain, Taiwan, Holland, Brazil, Finland, Canada, and Australia, which is where I am this...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 23, 2010, 6:14 pm
Maybe you're familiar with Curtis Stone, the gorgeous Aussie celebrity chef who stars in his own US-based TV show,Take Home Chef. The show title is a clever double entendre because once you've seen charismatic Curtis on TV doing his thing, most women, if they had half a chance, would want...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 22, 2010, 7:44 pm
I'm on a small island a couple hours SE of Melbourne, Australia, a beautiful spot that feels very removed from the rest of the world. Perhaps the position of Phillip Island at the bottom of the globe (directly south and you reach Tasmania, then Antarctica) is the reason it's not obvious th...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 21, 2010, 9:49 pm
Earlier this week I arrived in Australia where I'll be for about 16 days. My elderly father is slipping away and my sisters and I have gathered to say goodbye to our dear old dad who is in a nursing home on Phillip Island. I've referred to Phillip Island in this blog. It's where my fa...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 15, 2010, 12:28 pm
This week on Market to Mouth the theme has been simple meal ideas for a spring, liver detox. Starting with Monday's raw muesli and veggie juices, followed by Tuesday's baked sole with spinach, and then yesterday, I had an enormous bowl of raw salad at Mad Greens. I haven't just been wr...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 13, 2010, 11:39 am
After yesterday's raw food, including two juice meals, I'm inclined to want a heartier meal. Though not so heavy that the liver-cleansing effect of a raw muesli breakfast and veggie juice for lunch and dinner are completely thwarted. Actually, for breakfast today, I made another bowl of ra...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 12, 2010, 12:13 pm
Raw foodies advocate a diet of at least 75% raw food such as fresh fruits, vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, seaweeds, and beans. Undoubtedly, there are health benefits to eating lots of fresh, organic, live and enzyme-rich foods. But 75% of your daily food intake, that's a lot of cold,...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 9, 2010, 1:25 pm
It was almost a year ago that I wrote a post titled Re-Use Your Plastic Bags. Around that time, as a way to gather data for a book proposal based on this blog, I was sharing my expertise as a grocery shopping-cum-cooking consultant One of glaring things I noticed shopping with people is the consi...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 7, 2010, 11:29 am
After braising much of the red-tip leaf lettuce I received in my Mile High Organics starter bin, I still had some large outer leaves. And despite that we're heading into the second week of April, here in Boulder CO it's snowing, so eating cold lettuce salad sounded unappealing. With that i...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 6, 2010, 1:12 pm
Shopping online for organic produce (in fact, all your food) is not a unique concept these days. Google it and see for yourself. However, I'm a visual and tactile person, which means I prefer to see and touch, sometimes even smell, vegetables and fruit before buying them. Nevertheless, this pa...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Apr 5, 2010, 6:07 pm
I'm late writing my Meatless Monday post because I've been distracted watching Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution on Hulu. Jamie's a very personable celebrity chef who's been entertaining British and Australian audiences for years with his accessible and fun approach to cooking simp...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Mar 31, 2010, 12:56 pm
This past weekend, I hosted a Sunday lunch. It was a glorious spring day so we ate outside on the patio. I made my version of bouillabaisse-cum-chowder and with it, we ate olive bread, cheeses, and a simple green salad. Dessert was a fruit flan, which I bought at my local Whole Foods. I delibera...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Mar 29, 2010, 1:23 pm
Meatless Monday: one day a week make the choice to cut out meat. In conjunction with the Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health, Meatless Monday's goal is to improve the health of individuals and the health of the planet. Going without meat on Mondays isn't a round-about way ...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Mar 25, 2010, 12:22 pm
The recommended serving of fruit per day is 2-4. I'm not a big adherent of that during the winter, even as we begin to see signs of spring. Because of the worldwide distribution of food, seasonal foods are available year-round now which means it's easy to forget about seasons when we do ou...
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Louise Ross posted an article on Market to Mouth - Mar 23, 2010, 11:25 am
A meal lacking color is not as aesthetically pleasing nor as flavorful and nutritious as a meal bursting with green, orange, red, purple and more. Yesterday, as in many previous posts, I made reference to the phytonutrient-rich properties of colorful vegetables. Last week after posting information...
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