Articles for May 5th, 2010

It’s Wild Foraged Fennel Pollen Season!

posted by Nancy Nichols | May 5th, 2010 6:26pm | filed under AgriBusiness, Celebrity Chefs, Foodie People, Gardening, Hippie revolutions, Nutjobs |

Tra la, tra la. Here is a lengthy note from Tom Spicer. He’s been busy as a, well, bee.

Go, Tom:

Greetings from The FM 1410, the Spiceman’s lair of Culi-ne’er-do-wells and looking to please or sometimes… tease with tastes of trinkets from his garden.

We have a nice garden buffet of fresh, edible greens, flowers and GREEN CORRIANDER BERRIES right off the umbeliferous crowns @ $2/oz.

Use them like pepper corns to encrust and make robust your fish, poultry dish or toss them over your shoulder and make a wish.

EAST TEXAS STRAWBERRIES from Titus County…or just accross its border maybe but wherever I got them I drove 4 hours round trip because the flavors beconed

the Spiceman to run the gauntlet of sirens (you’s in a heap o’ trouble boy) but I say I say, fog horn leg horn…that there’s a strawberry! retail @ $4 PT wholes ale $30/flat

ORGANIC TIOGA, TX BRAISING & SALAD GREENS Wolf Creek Farm is back on line with late plantings of snow kissed salad greens retail/wholesale around $10#…value added from Spiceman’s Garden at $15# look for late crops due to the late spring, okra, eggplant, heirloom tomatoes, yukon gold potatoes, shishito, Padrone, marconi and gypsy peppers…other great organic produce from Tioga Tim late in summer are water melons, canteloupes (sorry honey dew, but…I can’t elope)

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What to Do in Dallas for Mother’s Day

posted by Nancy Nichols | May 5th, 2010 5:36pm | filed under Mother's Day |

Sarah Eveans has a long list of things to do with and for mom this weekend.

Taste of Addison Salsa Competition: Hurry

posted by Nancy Nichols | May 5th, 2010 2:27pm | filed under Events, Festivals | 4 Comments »

Sorry about the short notice, but if you have a kiss-sass salsa recipe and want to be a star at Taste of Addison’s “Salsa Sunday” celebration on May 23, send in this form by Friday, May 7. More details on Taste of “Bill” Addison here. (Anybody hear from Bill? I miss him.)

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The Oil Spill and Shrimp From the Gulf Coast: WTF?

posted by Nancy Nichols | May 5th, 2010 1:03pm | filed under Food Crime, seafood, Skinny bitches | 5 Comments »

Hungry?

Thank you Leslie Brenner at Eatsblog for doing all of the reporting. She does a nice job of getting us up to date on the state of shrimp in the Gulf Coast. It’s here and it’s not pretty. Anybody seen any changes on area menus? I think we can kiss cheap oysters goodbye.

UPDATE: And CNN. And from Jon at TJ’s Seafood: “Live Gulf Oysters:
This is the species most susceptible to contamination. Right now 6 of the 32 oyster beds in Louisiana are shut down. However, the season for live gulf oysters is coming to a close.  The pre-shucked oysters we have for cooking in our freezer were harvested before the spill and are not affected.”

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