Delishytown
Cooking is fun. Eating is funner. I cook, photograph and write these recipes.
Everything I post on this blog I make from scratch using fresh wholesome ingredients.. I've been cooking since I was a little kid.
My recipes are based on trial and error, along with studying cookbooks, family recipes, blogs and cooking shows.
Some of the veggies and herbs I use are grown in my garden. Yay sustainability!
I'm working on making my yard into an edible landscape. It's really fun to go out in the garden and pick your veggies for dinner!
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12 posts tagged organic food
Smokey Beef and Potato Tacos
We grew the potatoes in these tacos, the limes are from our neighbors tree. The second picture is my potato harvest from yesterday. Potatoes like sunny, cool weather. It’s easy to grow them, especially in a barrel or in grow bags, that way you can just dump the whole thing out when they’re ready to harvest. Plant them low in the container, and hill the dirt up and mulch with straw as they grow to get multiple layers of harvestable potatoes.
These beef and potato tacos are delicious! Using potatoes helps stretch your food dollars. You can make these vegetarian by omitting the meat all together.
In a skillet, olive oil, chopped onion, diced potatoes, salt and papper. Cook until caramelized and cooked through. Set aside.
Brown 1/2 lb grass fed organic ground beef with 1 small chopped onion or shallot, add minced garlic, and a sprinkle of each of the following spices: coriander powder, smoked paprika, chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder, dried basil and season with celery salt and pepper. Deglaze the pan with a little beer, wine or water.
Chop lettuce, slice tomatoes, & grate cheddar cheese. Heat small corn tortillas on each side. Serve the meat and potatoes inside the taco shells and garnish with shredded lettuce, tomato, cheese, guacamole, sour cream, lime wedges and salsa. Yum!
Please support Prop 37, CA Right to Know
I never do this on my blog, ask for anything. I started this blog to teach people who don’t know how to cook. I try to share everything I make, along with techniques, and I try to describe it as straightforwardly as possible. I love food. I cook every day. I even love grocery shopping. It’s fun to look at all the beautiful packages and colorful labels.
So here comes the asking part. Please donate anything you can to Yes on 37, the prop that would require labeling of GMO food. About 70 other countries label GMO’s. It’s a CA prop, but it will affect the entire USA, because big food companies aren’t only going to label food sold in CA, that wouldn’t be cost effective. The labels will change on all food, all across the US. This is an issue that crosses party lines too. So whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, your GMO food will be labeled.
https://prop37.nationbuilder.com/donate_to_know
Prop 37 will essentially decide if Americans are going to continue to be lied to about GMO corn, which is in everything. It’s a corn seed made in a lab, and has been genetically spliced with BT, which is a bacteria used as an insecticide. BT causes the insects stomach to explode, killing it when it eats the corn. This corn from Monsanto has been hiding on our store shelves for years, unlabled. It”s in soda pop, sugary cereals, any thing with corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, corn sugar, tortillas, etc. You might be eating GMO corn, unless you purchase strictly organic food and food labeled “non GMO”. But how do you know what you’re buying if it’s not labeled?
Monsanto and BIg Food Corporations want Americans to be kept in the dark and just continue to buy their Frankenfood. They have a commercial out now with a Doctor from San Diego saying how 37 is misleading and will cost you more for your food. She’s a charlatan. They print labels every day. Does it cost you more when they print *New and Improved!* ? No. Monsanto doesn’t want you to know what is in that bag of chips because you’ll be too grossed out to buy their “Round Up Ready” food anymore.
Thanks for supporting real food!
Oct 16th is take your crappy food back to Whole Foods Day, or ”World Food Day”, where Whole Foods customers are being encouraged to return masses of GMO products they purchased at Whole Foods. I’m in. I often look at their corn and soy products and wonder if they contain GMO’s. Especially the corn tortillas, which do not say made with organic corn. Now I know.
My neighbor exclusively shops there because she believes that everything they sell is organic. She will be very shocked to hear this.
Another great reason to Vote Yes on 37 and spread the word. Yes on 37. We have a right to know whats in our food.
Another look at the now infamous Stanford University study that suggests organic foods are just as safe as non-organic. They’re looking in depth at what was and was not included in the study, and how it was funded, and are pretty much turning up what I found out while doing some digging: that the scientists who conducted the study ignored significant research linking pesticide use to cancer, attention deficit disorder, etc. and that they depend on companies like Cargill and foundations like Gates (which strongly supports GMO foods) for their funding.
Note: Common Dreams is definitely NOT an unbiased source itself and normally I would not recommend it as a news source, but I did some more digging around this morning and the information about the research group’s funding and the studies they ignored are indeed true from what I’ve found.
I knew it.
Reblogging this because Spread the Word. In my opinion, too far Monsanto! You’re greedy, you’re trying to take too much. No way. No. Go eat your own GMO’s.
Monsanto is using its money and influence to push Congress to attach a rider to the 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill that would effectively end judicial review of approvals of new genetically engineered crops.
If this rider (Sec. 733) isn’t removed, organic and non-GMO farmers will lose their access to the court system and they’ll have no recourse when the U.S. Department of Agriculture illegally approves new genetically engineered crops that threaten to contaminate their fields and seed supplies.
Monsanto’s sneak attack is a response to successful lawsuits brought by the Center for Food Safety on behalf of organic and non-GMO farmers and seed growers that have attempted to block planting of genetically engineered sugar beets and alfalfa while the USDA conducted a court-ordered review of the dangers of contamination.
A vote to remove Monsanto’s rider from the Agriculture Appropriations bill was expected this week, but now has been delayed until after Congress returns from their July 4th recess. Let’s use this time to spread the word and send tens of thousands of letters to Congress!
Fuck. Monsanto.
Reblogging this amazing heirloom corn. If this is real I want to grow it.
yourenotapersonunlessyoureacting:
“Glass Gem Corn… hands-down winner of the most amazing heirloom corn variety we’ve seen yet! Carefully stewarded by http://www.seedstrust.com/ in Arizona…”
Doesn’t look real, does it? Like some kind of corn done in stained glass.
This is just beautiful!
(via yarrowandyew)
Cranberry Curried Chicken Salad
The other night we made a whole roast chicken for dinner. It was really delicious. I used cranberries in this recipe because I was out of raisins. Sometimes it’s good to run out of an ingredient & make yourself experiment with substitutions.
Chop about 1 cup of cooked chicken, add 2 chopped celery stalks, 2 shredded carrots, 1/4 to 1/2 cup chopped sweet onion, 1/4 cup dried cranberries, fresh chopped parsley, 1/4 cup mayo, 1/2 cup plain yogurt, pinch of cayenne, 1/2 tsp curry powder, juice of 1/2 lemon, celery salt and pepper.
Mix it all together and serve on a salad or toasted bread.
