Part of the purpose of Hounds in the Kitchen is to advocate for local foods and local eating. ‘Local‘ is subjective and prone to green-washing as are so many other terms. With the advent of Local Foods Week coming soon (see below), now is a good time to talk about what is local. Some...
Read more →I love apples and I love autumn, so it follows that I love spending a day apple picking. For three years now we have been loyal patrons of Windy Hill Apple Farm, home to Charlie’s Apples. It is an organic farm with a selection of specially chosen disease resistant trees located north of Johnstown,...
Read more →This is a picture of Devorguilla, aka Devie, aka big hound, in 2002. It was just after we moved to Norfolk Virginia in our first house. I had not yet found work and we were extended beyond our means. But it was Alex’s birthday, so I baked a German Chocolate Cake from scratch. Devie...
Read more →Last year we were members of the 2Silos winter meat CSA. It was a great experience. Alex and Lil enjoyed local eggs, chicken, beef, lamb, and more all winter long. Alex wrote a review of his experience in mid winter. Owner Denise Beno is trying out a new method for CSA signup called the...
Read more →Awhile ago I hinted that this site was changing and the time has come: we are moving to the wordpress.org platform. Nameservers will be switched in a few minutes here which could render the URL useless for a day or so. Once we are live with our new hosts, I will install a theme...
Read more →…with these over ripe exploding Italian plums. Most fruits mold or shrink or bruise or brown. The plums from our Wayward Seed Fruit CSA just burble juice from their tops like slow grenades. …and this delicate squash tendril. When I trained the squash away from the lettuce the other day, this coil of tendril...
Read more →When I first heard about the Ohio Fish and Shrimp Festival a few years ago (it has been running for 8 years), I thought it was too weird to be true. This year our schedule aligned with my father’s band, Bunty Station, being booked at the show and we had to go see for...
Read more →When we were young, our parents sometimes opened their kitchens for ‘experiment cooking’. (Yes, by ‘we’ I mean Alex and I grew up three doors away from each other. That’s a story for another day.) These sessions are some of my fondest cooking memories from childhood. In experiment cooking, there are no recipes. Kids...
Read more →A few days ago I participated in a twitter contest hosted by local blogger Columbus Foodie. I won a pair of tickets to Taste the Future, Columbus State Community College (CSCC)’s fundraiser food tasting! We arrived at an inner plaza in the urban CSCC campus. I had no idea they had such a beautiful...
Read more →On Sunday we went shopping at our local nursery Oakland Park for garlic starts (they did not have any hardneck varieties) and blueberries (which they did not have either). They did have a dwarf european plum tree at 33% off. We were sold. For awhile I have been hating on two overgrown shrubs in...
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