January 2018 - Local Mouthful

Episode 219: Farro Casserole, Banana Bread, and Recipe Writing Pitfalls

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In food news this week, Saveur has laid off a number of staffers, including editor-in-chief Adam Sachs.

In our What’s for Dinner segment, Marisa talks about farro casserole.

Joy tried out King Arthur Flour’s recipe of the year–whole grain banana bread.

We talk about the dark side of recipes development: When recipes go awry.

And this week, we are loving sprouted wheat english muffins.

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Episode 218: Baked Flautas, Seared Broccoli, Joy’s First Year Alcohol Free

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In Food News this week, we talked about the mainstreaming of nonalcoholic drinks at restaurants and bars. See this recent story on Thrillist.

In our What’s For Dinner segment, we’re dishing up baked flautas. These baked flautas.

Marisa walks us through her favorite technique for making restaurant-style seared broccoli at home.

Joy, who once cooked practically every night with a glass of wine, just celebrated her one year anniversary of breaking up with alcohol.

What we’re loving this week–Waterloo Sparkling Water.

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Episode 217: Purple Carrot, Scrambled Eggs, Out of Season Produce

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Sorry, salad lovers: Romaine lettuce is suspected in an e.coli outbreak. Follow up note: Joy’s composting service says you CAN compost suspected vegetables. The composting process kills the bacteria.

In our newish How Do You Make That segment, we talk about different approaches to the common scrambled egg.

Joy tells all about her Purple Carrot experience–the good (delicious food), the bad (missing ingredients), and the ugly (packaging overload).

It’s the dead of winter. Also known as the time to embrace those nonlocal, out-of-season produce options. Because we still need to eat our vegetables.

What are we loving this week? Joy and Marisa are all about the bagged mini avocados we’ve seen around at groceries including Acme and Trader Joe’s.

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Episode 216: New Years Foods, Bean Soup, Top Chef

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We’re back! First up, an announcement. We’ve released our first ebook, a little cookbook to help you get your 2018 started off right. It’s called Resolution Recipes and you can pick up your very own copy right here. Thank you for helping to support what we do!

In what’s for dinner we talk about traditional New Year’s Day foods–dishes that set you up for good luck in the new year.

Joy and Marisa had something of an informal bean soup swap and they talk about how to get our of your own winter soup making rut.

As Top Chef fans, don’t you always wonder what you would do if faced with the chef-testant’s challenges? We do! We talk about a recent thought provoking contest on the show about culinary heritage.

And finally, in What We’re Loving, we talk about prefab gnocchi.

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Resolution Recipes

Happy New Year, dear listeners! We hope that this fresh, new year treats you all gently and deliciously. To help with the delicious part, we’ve put together a short digital cookbook that we’re calling Resolution Recipes.

This 12 recipe publication is bursting with tasty plant-based dishes designed to help you eat well throughout 2018. These are some of our basic recipes that we make on Saturday or Sunday so that we can make good, healthy choices throughout the week. Hopefully they’ll do the same for you.

We’re selling this publication for $5. Click here to buy.