photo: ellen silverman
Today, Tuesday the 17th, is the last day to enter our giveaway contest of Mindy Fox’s Salads: Beyond the Bowl: Extraordinary Recipes for Everyday Eating
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last chance to win: mindy fox’s ‘salads: beyond the bowl’
discover the ‘negative’ path to happiness
(Video link here.) We are always on the lookout for people, books and sites that give an honest view of what it takes to make or do or be something. So were intrigued by this video trailer for The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking
We’re definitely gonna check it out as we’ve long thought that these principles are actually keys to the creative process. This Guardian piece distills a chunk nicely. read more…
free giveaway: mindy fox’s ‘salads: beyond the bowl’
photo: ellen silverman
The magic of salad is that while it can be a clean and quiet beginning, side or ending to a savory main course, it can also be a full meal unto itself–full of protein with cheese, meats, nuts, tofu, or an egg on top; a little sweet with dry or fresh fruits; or full of vegetables you never thought would go together, but somehow fall together beautifully. Once you give yourself over to the possibilities of salad, you’ll find that they are endless. The key is to know some basics, and then every salad can be a completely new revelation.
This is what is so great about Mindy Fox’s Salads: Beyond the Bowl
A New Way to Cook giveaway winner
Our giveaway contest is over and our winner has been selected at random–Marti will be receiving the signed, first edition of A New Way to Cook! Congrats Marti. We hope you it comes in useful for the farmer’s market treasures you mentioned in your comment:
“Bring it. Today’s Farmer’s Market basket full of ruby red rhubarb, juicy Michigan strawberries, and a rainbow of chard. Would love that cookbook to lead me to the newness. Abundance reigns.”
Thanks to everyone who left comments; they were a joy to read. Some of our favorites are below. Check back for a new giveaway in the next week or two! And for those of you who are still interested in the book, you can buy the softcover version of A New Way to Cook on Amazon.
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read more…last chance to enter our ‘A New Way to Cook’ giveaway +++ a recipe extravaganza!
Time’s almost up for our current book giveaway! Tonight at midnight, we’ll be picking a commenter at random to receive a signed, first edition copy of Sally’s A New Way to Cook
‘a new way to cook’ giveaway + recipe: classic coleslaw
'crabcakes n' slaw' photo: maria robledo
Before picking the winner of our latest book giveaway on June 19 (a signed, first edition copy of Sally’s A New Way to Cook), we’ve been
3 crazy-simple summer desserts from ‘a new way to cook’ (and a reminder to enter our giveaway)
photo: maria robledo
In honor of our giveaway of a signed, first-edition of Sally’s A New Way to Cook, we thought we’d publish 3 recipes for summer that are both crazy-simple (one has only 1 ingredient!) and dazzling. They make up just a fraction of the book’s chapter on fruit desserts. It includes a guide for improvising flavored syrups for making quick, memorable fruit salads, which is what’s happening in the photo above. Think Vanilla Bean; Cherry Eau-de-Vie; Rosewater; Basil and Cinnamon; Rosemary, Lavender and Honey; Whisky and White Peppercorn syrups to adorn peaches, aprictos, melons, cherries, berries, mangos…
To enter, just comment if you’d like a copy of A New Way to Cook
And now, here are Three Crazy-Simple Fresh Fruit Desserts: read more…
flower + vegetables = charming arrangement
photo: rahel weiss.
We love the surprising “flower arrangements” created by Sania Pell, author of Homemade Home for Children
via Remodelista. Photo by Rahel Weiss.
Related posts: freehand, no-rule flower arrangements
dill weed (and other edible) flower arrangements
vase-less flower arrangement (right on the table)
alt flower arrangement: a little vase of herbs
vase-less flower arrangement (right on the table)
book giveaway last call: ‘hip girl’s guide to homemaking (dig this homecured bacon)
photo: kate payne
This is the final call for our free book giveaway! One of the the great things about Kate Payne’s Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking
So its your last chance! To win a copy the Hip Girl’s Guide, read more…
book giveaway: fridge pickles via ‘hip girls guide’…
photo: kate payne
Soon summer will be here, bringing with it a crop of cucumbers (and countless other vegetables) just waiting to be pickled. But for those who are intimidated by the process of water-bath canning for shelf storage (or who just want a crunchy fresh pickle!) there is an easy solution: spices, water, vinegar, salt, and two weeks in the fridge. We love the simplicity of Kate Payne’s Fridge Pickles 101. And that’s just one of many great, fun recipes included in her fab The Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking
Good luck!
Related posts: jars with chalkboard labels to buy or d-i-y
4 great downloadable d-i-y’s from canal house cooking
d-i-y food gift: prunes in armagnac (recipe)
creating your (urban) homestead
book giveaway: ‘hip girl’s guide to homemaking’ even teaches useful knots
photo: kate payne
One of the things we love so much about The Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking
‘tiny homes: simple shelter’
photo: lloyd kahn
The other day BoingBoing posted a ‘photo gallery’ from the newly-released Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter
4 (+ more) simple solutions to everyday dilemmas
At The Chive, we came across a list of 16 simple solutions to some everyday dilemmas: a virtual, visual Hints from Heloise. We’ve found some incredibly useful, like using bread bag tags as cord labels (of course, with our obsessive minds, we’d go looking for stylish tag in a color we like: white! – and might trim it to a cooler shape).
David Saltman reports that he’s been using the strategy for getting an elevator to go directly to the floor you want, useful for emergencies (Note: We recommend reading Mary Reynolds thoughtful comment below.) read more…
book giveaway: the hip girl’s guide to homemaking
Now that spring has officially sprung, we find ourselves ready for new projects, around our houses and outside. We keep coming back to our friend Kate Payne’s The Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking
The books covers a ton of ground, from what you need to stock your home (and how to make your own resources) to the basics of easy, stylish home design. She has trouble-shooting options for virtually any common home mishap. It was Kate’s blog, of the same name, that we turned to last week when we needed instructions for how to hang pegboard in your kitchen.
Some of our favorite springtime gems from Kate’s guide include, her how-to on setting up your own bucket garden; read more…
wine and food pairing 101: do charts work?
Recently, a reader sent us link to an interactive wine-and-food-pairing website called Italian Wine Pairing 101 wondering what we thought about it. You choose a food group – say beef, or shellfish or fruit tarts – then recommended wines appear in a list below. (It’s one of many food-and-wine pairing charts and sites on the internet.) So we asked our very astute food and wine contributor Anthony Giglio to give us his take on it. As usual, he gets to the deep and essential heart of the matter (bold-faced below).
The opening line gives anyone who knows grapes pause: ‘Italy produces the most wine in the world. But Italian wine can be intimidating for beginners due to the unfamiliar names — it’s more Nebollio (sp) & Verdicchio than Merlot and Chardonnay.’ [More succinctly, it's place names more than grape names that confuse...]
The simplicity of matching is safe and could certainly work — if one has a really open mind (keep reading). read more…
