FoodWISE cooking today is about roasting light and fluffy potatoes! From Easy Oven Roasted Potatoes. It’s at: https://www.spendwithpennies.com/simple-herb-oven-roasted-potatoes/ I’ll share the trick right now, which is really a step—soak the potatoes (cut into cubes) in water! Basically, all you do is cut the potatoes into 1-inch cubes, and soak in water to remove some of…
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FoodWISE Making the best food choices
FoodWISE tells the story of celebrating the “gray” in our lives—the best food choices may not always be the most obvious. Thank you Chanticleer Book Awards for awarding semi-finalist status to FoodWISE! See gigimberardi@wwu.edu #food #foodie #instafood #foodphotography #foodstagram #yummy #instagood #love #foodblogger #foodlover #delicious #follow #like #healthyfood #homemade #foodWISE #tasty #healthy #instagram #eat #corona…
What’s for dinner? Eat this!
What’s for dinner? Eat this! Recently, we were looking around Bellingham, WA for a good restaurant. We had some staples, like D’Anna’s café Italiano (with its fresh pasta, and Sicilian-themed fare), and new ones, like Storia Cucina (with clearly-sourced ingredients, house-prepared and -cooked—all tasty, which is important). In fact, when I developed the acronym for…
Beating the pandemic: FoodWISE monks
Today, we see a lot of backsliding with COVID precautions and infection rates. Our food supply is vulnerable. As I wrote in FoodWISE, our food system is like an interconnected web, “All the farmers, millers, butchers, bakers, grocery clerks, and cooks are the people who inhabit the web—making it work, and depending on it for…
A big thank you to Deran Browne of Mangochowproductions for FoodWISE, the film (in production)
I am happy to announce that FoodWISE, the film is in production! Deran Browne of mangochowproductions.com was selected to produce the film. Deran Browne is the manager of the Digital Media Center at Western Washington University and over the past months has been interviewing food information experts, consumers, and teachers to produce a film about…
Can the “Impossible Burger” be a homemade, FoodWISE one?
Gigi reads a few paragraphs from a New Yorker article, “Value Meal” on Impossible Foods (September 30, 2019). Is the impossible burger the future of food? Hardly. We have so many options that are more WISE—whole, informed, sustainable, and full of experience. See here, for a dozen recipe ideas: thespruceeats. For more, including recipes and…
House gardening in the spring! Plant sunflower seeds for microgreens
It’s spring! Too early to get out into the garden for most, but you can still reap a mighty harvest of microgreens by planting a few sunflower seeds in a pot! Harvest the delicious sprouts for a real taste of spring! For more, see: gigiberardi.com #food #foodie #instafood #foodphotography #foodstagram #yummy #instagood #love #foodblogger #foodlover…
FoodWISE foods for a speedy recovery
Recovering from hip surgery, I’ll share that FoodWISE foods are helping mightily! The following is FoodWISE’s newest review (in European Journal of Food Drink and Society). gigiberardi.com #food #foodie #instafood #foodphotography #foodstagram #yummy #instagood #love #foodblogger #foodlover #delicious #follow #like #healthyfood #homemade #foodWISE #tasty #healthy #instagram #eat #corona #coronavirus #vaccine
What’s FoodWISE about US agriculture? Plenty!
Gigi talks about our new USDA Secretary, Tom Vilsak, his second time around in D.C. and mentions “carbon capture,” commodity crops, and climate change. She suggests recipes from her book that don’t depend on commodity crops: dilly beans, pressure-cooker vegetable stew, roasted vegetables, vegetarian chili, baked garlic, whole roasted cauliflower, avocado guacamole, broccoli guacamole, crispy almonds,…
FoodWISE eating during COVID
Vegetarian chili? That’s Gigi’s favorite bean recipe in FoodWISE. Eat this, not that? Check out beans*dry peas*lentils*chickpeas for info. Is the information FoodWISE? Whole? Informed? Sustainable? Experienced? See for yourself! In the meantime, some of the recipes there are delicious! I suggest we dig into these protein sources—nutritious and inexpensive, as we dig deep into…