Blog Index

Agri-Tourism via RV or Cruise

These are the stories of our travels, where we have visited farms, ranches, and other food-related places that we found interesting.

• California Rice Farms Were 110F in July 4 August 2023
• Our First RV Trip 
• Ripe Choice Farm + Catering
• RV Lake County Stories
• Cruise: The Kitchen February 7, 2020
• Cruise: The Islands February 14, 2020

Animal Foods

• Dog Cuisine is Not Human July 1, 2022

Agriculture + Government

• 2021-2020 UNESCO Registered Food Culture 8 September 2013
• This Nonsense about Gas Stoves Ban 20 January 2023
• USA Plastic Recycling is a Dud 16 December 2022
• Food Labels That Mean Nothing 16 September 2022
• My Stand on GMO 26 August 2022
• How We Farm Food Matters to Me 12 August 2022
• Good + Bad of Industrial Farms 17 June 2022
• How not to Buy Industrial Mead 24 June 2022
• Fighting the Decline of Diversity
• GMO Facts + History 1 October 2021
• Food System Connections
• Food Chain Contamination 20 November 2020
• Is Food a Commodity? 9 August 2019
• Meat + Fowl Processing Plants 26 June 2020
• Politics of Farmers Markets
• Regenerative Agriculture 30 October 2020
• Special Food Month, Week, Day 19 November, 2021

Agriculture as a Commercial Business

• Meat Processing Plants + Illegal Child Labor 24 February 2023
• Chuck Wagons as Precurser to Food Carts December 9, 2022
• Food System Connections
• Is Nestle a Good World Neighbor November 12, 2021
• Major Transitions July 3, 2020

Baking

• Baking and Cooks, Oh My January 8, 2021
• Delicious German Bread January 1, 2021

Beverages

• Tisane Drinks (Herbal Teas)
• Morning Caffeine Drinks are Important 1 September 2023
• The Official Coronation Tea of King Charles III 14 July 2023
• My Favorite Chinese Tea is From Verdant Teas 13 January 2023
• The Eight Ss of Drinking 23 September 2022
• Searching for the Best Earl Grey Tea 10 December2021
• Consume Coffee Healthily 22 October 2021
• Non-Alcoholic Beer 13 March 2020
• Tea Controversies 10 January 2020
• I am a 2-Fisted Drinker 5 April 2019

Blogging + My Story

• My Best Traditional Holiday Meal Ever 23 December 2022
• 2022 Valentine
• A Mexican Christmas Dinner December 24, 2021
• 2020 Resolutions? January 3, 2019
• 2021 Steaksgiving November 26, 2021
• Pandemic Journal: My Day May 1, 2020
• Why + What I Blog May 17, 2019

Cooking Techniques

• Mise end Place is the Place to Start 7 October 2022
• Boiling Food 9 June 2023
• Grilling + Broiling 10 February 2023
• Brine, Marinate, Pickle, Cure 13 May 2022
• Frying
• 5 Ways to Cook Rice 25 March 2022
• Braising 17 September 2021
• Steam 11 June 2021
• Veggie + Fruit Puree 23 October 2020
• Blanching 17 July 2020
• Stovetop Cooking 21 November 2019
• Foundation of a Recipe 20 September 2019
• Add a Little Panade 13 September 2019
• Old Recipes and Cooking Ideas 8 March 2019

Cooking Tips + Tricks

• Bringing Oxtails Into my Cooking 6 May 2022
• Cooking is About Timing 4 December 2020
• Best is Frozen 27 March 2020
• Boring to Exceptional Cooking 29 March 2019
• Cook as Alchemist 25 October 2019
• Cooking Math 22 March 2019
• Wash + Eat 5 July 2019
• With Enough Butter, Anything is Good 11 October 2019

Cookware + Kitchen Tools

• Mortar and Pestle are Great Tools 2 June 2023
• Dishwasher as a Multi-Tool 11 February 2022
• Measuring Tools
• Cutting Board Comments 16 August 2019
• Electric Milk Frother (Zulay)
• My Slow Cooker 26 July 2019
• Pantry’s Are Necessary 8 May 2020
• Paper, Foil, Wax, or Silicon?
• Using Splatter Screens (Zulay)

Cuisines

• Cuisine of European Indigenous  People 8 July 2022
• Every Continent Has Flat Bread 27 May 2022
• German Cuisine
• Greek Cuisine
• Indian Cuisine
• Japanese Cuisine
• Korean Cuisine 9 October 2020
• Mexican Cuisine 29 October 2021
• Tex-Mex Cuisine 6 November 2020
• Moroccan Cuisine 14 August 2020
• Southern Cuisine 15 January 2021
• Vietnamese Cuisine

Environmental Issues

• PFAS Catastrophe + Yet Hope is Here 24 March 2023
• What the Heck is Upcycling Food all About 30 December 2022
• USA Plastic Recycling is a Dud 16 December 2022
• Invasive Species Warfare 25 February 2022
• Heed the Call to Reduce Waste 8 October 2021
• Global Pesticide Truths
• 2020 Food Planet Prize
• Bangladesh is All of Us 22 May 2020
• Food and Climate 31 January 2020
• Zero Waste Possible 20 January 2020
• No Electricity, Now What? 14 June 2019
• New Species + It Is Invasive 3 May 2019
• Reduce Take-out Waste 23 August 2019
• PFAS, PFOA, PFWhat? 8 November 2019

Flavor Enhancers + Seasoning

• Mustard as a Culinary Powerhouse of Piquancy 11 August 2023
• Bringing Oxtails Into my Cooking
• Cooking Tasty Flavors
• Tasting Umami September 18, 2020
• Aromatics + Trinities September 27, 2019
• Seasoned Advice September 6, 2019

Food Businesses: Restaurants, Farm Stands, Bars, etc.

• The Real Deal – A Spectacular Vegan Sushi 13 August 2023
• Amazing Farmers + Distillers as Entrepreneurs
• Ruhstaller’s Role in Sacramento Hops’ History
• Avila Valley Barn, and Emporium 21 April 2023
• The Unfortunate Closing of Hanger One 2 December 2022
• A Little Cultured Pickles For Me
• A Taco on Tuesdays
• Cooking Philosophies
• My 2020 Valentine February 28, 2020

Food Recipes + Comments

• Make an Easy + Satisfying Enchilada Dinner 23 July 2023
• Heavenly Biryani Meal is Comfort Food for Many 26 May 2023
• Do You Have Gravy Problems 5 May 2023
• My Family’s Pfannekuchen Recipe 14 April 2023
• A Smorgasbord of Cooking Tips 31 March 2023
• Fantastic African Meals to Share 10 March 2023
• Egg Dishes Direct from Europe 27 January 2023
• An Unusual Shepherd’s Pie Dinner 6 January 2023
• Indigenous People Fed Colonial Europeans 25 November 2022
• Lebanon’s Best + Tasty Breakfasts 21 October 2022
• Unique Breakfasts Around the World 3 June 2022
• Properly Eating Korean Banchan 10 June 2022
• A Healthy Chili + American Variations
• Colcannon is Bia Baile 11 March 2022
• Breakfast Muffins 5 November 2021
• Curry is Spicy Gravy 24 September 2021
• Foods + Dishes Left Behind 11 December 2020
• Cooking Philosophy 7 August 2020
• Plum Crisp + Jam 24 July 2020
• Limey, Yellow Limes 24 April 2020
• Honey 10 April 2020
• Gabby’s Mac-n-cheese 14 February 2020
• Stuffing for All 6 December 2019
• This or That (1) 29 November 2019
• Tubed Food 15 November 2019
• Using Peels + Rinds

Gardening

• Survival With Breadfruit, Hemp + Bamboo 3 August 2022
• Blueberry Harvest September 3, 2021
• Invite Pollinators June 21, 2019
• Pandemic: Urban Gardening
• Soft Herbs I Use + Grow

Grains + Cereals + Seeds

Grains

• Indigenous Grits (gluten free) November 13, 2020
• Farro
• Millet (gluten free)
• A Millet Future October 18, 2019
• Oats (gluten free)

Seeds

• Rice #1 Consumed Carb May 28, 2021
• Rice (gluten free)
• Focus on Seeds December 18, 2018

Herbs + Spices + Oils

Herbs + Spice

• Add a Little Spice to our American Kitchens 22 September 2023
• Blooming Toasty Spice November 27, 2020
• Saffron Delights 15 October 2021
• DIY Spice + Herb Blends
• Bouquet Garni
• Soft Herbs I Use + Grow
• Woody Herbs I Use + Grow 29 May 2020
• Solar Drying Herbs + Veggies
• Blooming Toasty Spice 27 November 2020

Oils

• Cooking Oil April 26, 2019
• Olive Trees + Oils

Instant Noodles + Soups

• Global Noodles + Soup 1 Intro on the series + reviews
• Global Noodles + Soup 2 History + packages commonalities + reviews
• Packaged Instant Noodles 3 Info on noodles + Koyo reviews
• Instant Noodles + Soups Healthy 4 Info on health + reviews
• Instant Noodles + Soups Feed the World 5 Emergency food + Lotus reviews
• Focusing on Instant Phở 6 Discussing this soup + reviews
• Making Phở at Home December 13, 2019
• Noodles + Soup Etiquette 7 How to eat noodle soup + reviews
• Instant Noodle + Soup Makers 8 Info on the manufacturers + reviews
• Vita Ramen Noodles + Soup 9 Review on Vita Ramen packages
• Global Noodles + Soup 10 Review of imported packages

Milks

• Global Role of Animal Milks
• Dairy Cows Milk
• Plant Milks
• Plant Milk: Coconut
• Plant Milk: Flax and Hemp Seed
• Plant Milk: Oats
• Plant Milk: Soy
• Plant Milk: Almond and Hazelnut
• Plant Milk: Macadamia
• Plant Milk: Cashew
• Plant Milk: Rice

My Kitchen Approach

• My Kitchen Prep May 23, 2019
• My Kitchen is Cooking May 31, 2019
• My Kitchen is Serving June 7, 2019

Nutrition + Diets

Diets

• Eating Purple Foods are Healthy
• Calculating PattyCooks nutrition counts
• Diet Types
• Cooking for Your Diet Options May 20, 2022
• Do You Eat a Gluten Free Diet
• Avoiding Nightshade Food July 30,2021
• The GERD Diet
• Eating with Gout February 12, 2021
• Ketosis: Keto + HMR Diets July 18, 2019
• Mediterranean Diet October 4, 2019
• Trader Joe’s Diet June 28, 2019
• Food – Thyroid Interactions September 10, 2021

Nutrition

• Make a Healthy Gut with Nutritious Food 19 May 2023
• Go Ahead, Eat Butter, Just Make it Good 12 May 2023
• Have We Lost Our Physical Food Sense 28 April 2023
• Is Our Food Loosing its Nutrition 14 October 2022
• Aging Changes to Appetite + Food
• Our Aging Digestion System
• Dietary Fiber 4 June 2021
• Eating Causes Cancer? 2 August 2019
• Healthy Conversion 30 August 2019
• Healthy + Frozen 12 April 2019
• Healthy Eating = Expensive? 22 February 2019
• Knee Replacement: Diet to Recovery 3 December 2021
• Meal Prepping 12 January 2019
• Top food allergies

Pandemic Specific (Covid-19)

• Putin’s War is a Global Domino March 18, 2022
• Restaurant Home Deliveries
• Ending Pandemic Isolation May 21, 2021
• 2020 Pain to 2021 Hope December 18, 2020
• Thanksgiving 2020 December 4, 2020
• Pandemic: Our Social Fabric July 31, 2020
• Meat + Fowl Processing Plants June 26, 2020
• Pandemic: The House Cleanse
• Pandemic: Urban Gardening
• Pandemic Snake Oil June 5, 2020
• Pandemic Journal: My Day May 1, 2020
• Pandemic: Changes to Food April 17, 2020
• Personal Pandemic Lessons April 3, 2020
• Pandemic: Clean + Disinfect March 20, 2020
• Zombie Apocalypse March 6, 2020

Protein (Meat, fowl, fish, tofu, tempeh)

• Insects
• From Plagues to Protein (Insects)
• Eating Insect Snacks May 14, 2021

• Animal Protein
• Meat Salads June 19, 2020
• Salmon + Katie April 19, 2019
• Let’s Talk Bacon December 27, 2019

• Non-Animal Protein
• Top Non-Meat Protein Options
• Styles of Tofu November 1, 2019

Public Health

• Everyday Food That Can be Poisonous 15 September 2023
• Valuable Food Documentaries
• Real Hunger Games August 26, 2019
• Cleaning After a Food Recall July 12, 2019
• Am I Allergic? June 12, 2020
• Prevent Foodborne Illness May 10, 2019
• Food Insecurity January 24, 2020

Product Reviews

• Do You Want an MRE in Your Pantry? November 11, 2022
• Preppers + Food for Thought November 4, 2022
• Cookbooks Put society in Context 9 September 2022
• Electric Milk Frother August 28, 2020
• Delicious German Bread January 1, 2021
• Pasta from Arkansas February 21, 2020
• Using Splatter Screens July 10, 2020

Safety

• I Want to Trust My Food is Real 3 February 2023
• How to Know it’s Safe to Eat November 18, 2022
• Cleaning a Fridge after a food recall
• Food Safety
• Fridge or Not February 8, 2019
• Food Storage January 15, 2019

Seafood

• I Now Think of Slimy Kelp as Food 7 April 2023

Shopping

• Saving Money on Food
• Smart Shopping Ideas
• Bagging Groceries

Sweet Additions

• Are You a Honey Connoisseur? 3 March 2023
• Honey 10 April 2020

Vegan Adventures + Reviews

• A Day Trip to Greens August 6, 2021
• The Butcher’s Son August 13,2021
• Vegan Soul Food August 20, 2021
• Kate’s Vegan Bay Area Adventure August 27, 2021

Veggies + Fruit

• Asparagus
• Bell Peppers
• Blueberry Harvest
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Garlic
• Grapefruit is one Strange Citrus 17 February 2023
• Green Onions
• Leeks
• Mushrooms
• Onions
• Tomatoes
• Too Many Greens
• Yams + Sweet Potatoes
• Too Many Greens

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