Do You Know where your Claire has been?? It becomes obvious you’ve been busy doing other things when all your blog posts are labeled “older posts.” This seems to be the case for me at present as within the last year the only things I’ve posted were snippets about gluten and gingerbread, neither of which [...]
Giving Gluten a Rest
Baker to the core, gluten might be my best friend. Hand in hand, we skipped through bread hills on the regular. Even during the vegan days, gluten was a food source shaped into lumpy chewy chunks called Seiten and dried chips of TVP (texturized vegetable protein) were stirred into soups and stews. All those chewy [...]
Gingerbread Man Joy
Run, Run As Fast As You Can…. Time to Catch the Gingerbread Man Gazing over the edge of the counter at my mother’s friend’s home, I could barely reach my arms up enough to break off pieces of a large brown cookie that was spicy and soft. I had no idea what it was, had [...]
Pancakes, A Happy Place
Pancakes Of Plenty Growing up, making pancakes meant that we got a box, stirred in milk and eggs with a big spoon and plopped the dough haphazardly onto a skillet. Every little dough bit cooked wether a drippy dot or a pool of batter. Cooked droplets of batter looked more like spetzle than pancakes but [...]
Tickle Me Peaches
Oh the brilliant peach. Ripe and plump, the peach can be virgin like purity cloaked in a temperature sensitive skin. Precious and untouched as it hangs from an unassuming protective tree blushing, the peach hides a soft and aromatic flesh that loves you back once you bring her on down. Possibly the forbidden offspring of [...]
Forgetting Fair Trade?
Well, are we? You tell me. Long ago and not so far away, Fair Trade was the hot topic. People oogled over where coffee came from, searching for a tiny emblem that signified if it was fair trade certified or not. Fair traded seemed to be a move in the right direction; give workers and [...]
Up the River: MS Matters
Gather round now and get your skillets ready… I’m going home! Alright only to visit but it will be a productive and intense time of talking to people, visiting places and eating the fares all in the name of food. Good fair food for all… I can’t wait to get to MS and see what [...]
Ham Hock Holding
Green Beans Evoked this moment Last Thursday: There are times when you start to remember where you come from and know when it is time to go on back. Though getting myself to Mississippi and a front porch somewhere in the sprawling lands of the delta was not in the cards this morning, I did [...]
Mississippi Burning?
Mississippi's Weight Crisis and Our Broken Food System For another year, Mississippi has been named the fattest, most unhealthy state in the country. Adult obesity is highest (32.5%) for the fifth year, and leading the way in childhood obesity (44.4%.) Statistics that are staggering. The result of socioeconomic status, race and cultural norms according to [...]
Blueberries For Claire
And for the jam fellow. Ok, and my sister, my neice, my friends, and you! Enter The Blueberry… the best little berries out there. "Well, get here early." "Oh, so you get picked clean." "No, it's hot." And she wasn't kidding. In Florida I was sweating, or glistening, almost as soon as the sun came [...]
The Scones of My Life
Scones. People like them more than muffins. I did a study at the Bed and Breakfast, and can say that people want the scones; not the muffins. Alright, all you muffin lovers out there who are now saying "No" please understand this fact, and feel free to write me a loving piece debating the finer [...]
