A Conscious Feast by Nicole Aloni

Posts Tagged ‘organic’

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  Tomato Tips and Summer Harvest Tomato Soup

  This is national Farmers Market Week and what could be more identified with the glories of a summer farmers market than those juicy globes of goodness —vine ripened tomatoes.

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  Kurt’s Cookhouse, Vashon Island Farm Supper

  Last Sunday I was lucky enough to be included in one of the intimate farmhouse dinners at Kurtwood Farms on Vashon.  Ex-Seattle chef Kurt Timmermeister (and friends) produce regular Sunday night dinners on his 13-acre dairy farm that are the acme of local eating.  Every bite of food — with the exception of 4 or 5 [...]

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  What’s a Foodie To Do? September ‘09

  A short list of some of the great things for a Foodie to do in Seattle this month.

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  Organic Chocolate Soup

  Try this elegant, velvety soup as a more sophisticated way to serve everybody’s favorite: chocolate pudding.

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  Democratically Delicious Eats #3: Green recipes that are easy on the budget

  Homemade pizza really over-delivers on the effort involved. It’s waaay better than restaurant fare and, depending on the toppings, will cost at most a couple of dollars for a pizza that will be serve 2 or 3.

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  Buffalo on the Que

  Summer! It’s finally warmed up enough to take the cover off the BBQ and break out the lawn furniture. Cooking and eating out of doors is absolutely one of the greatest pleasures of this gentler season. Today 75% of American households cook some of their meals (usually dinner) on a barbecue. So, what would [...]

• The Most Important Organic Purchases

  It can be challenging when you begin to look at putting your conscious eating ideals into action. Organic almost always costs more; local can be hard, if not impossible, to find and humanely raised meat may only be available to you via the Internet. At the very least, eating mindfully will introduce constraints to the [...]

• Cooking with Wine

  “May all your joys be pure joy, and all your pain champagne.”
  Over the last few years I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating on a number of wine articles with one of the country’s most gifted wine experts, Master of Wine, Bob Paulinski. Following are some of our tips on cooking with white wine, and a [...]

• Why This Blog?

  “The end of our exploring will be to arrive at where we started, and to know the place for the first time.
  —T.S. Eliot
  I want to be honest with you; the reason I thought of building this site was to share the fun and get you involved. I’m writing a cookbook and green plate shopping guide [...]