- Food: Grilling greens — a new way with kale for summer
- August 8, 2012
- When I created this recipe, I was aiming for something akin to a saute. What I got was so much better.
- Food: Fully-loaded salad doesn’t need fat to be satisfying
- August 1, 2012
- Eating a plate full of greens can be a bit boring. Too often, we are tempted to pile on fatty toppings like cheese, bacon, seeds and nuts, or rich dressings, all in an attempt to amplify the flavor.
- Food: Blueberry muffins or pancakes? Try making both in one
- July 25, 2012
- What do you do when you are hankering for blueberry muffins but don’t have a muffin pan handy? Or maybe you just don’t feel like cranking up the oven on a hot summer day.
- Food: One of region’s last family dairies hopes retail will help bottom line
- July 18, 2012
- When his father and uncles ceased their milking operation on the family dairy farm in 1972, Tim Iwig embarked on his own one-boy fresh-milk enterprise. Then only 12 or 13, he kept several heifers, milked them daily and recruited customers. Even if no one was home, they could pull into the driveway, walk into the barn, leave their money in a pan and take their milk.
- Food: Season’s just peachy for area fruit growers
- July 4, 2012
- After the 2011 Kansas winter resulted in a summer with little to no peaches, several northeast Kansas fruit growers are experiencing a banner year.
- Food: Touch of heat equals deep flavors in grilled gazpacho
- July 3, 2012
- Ready for a cool and refreshing soup hot off the grill? It’s got to be gazpacho.
- Food: Mixed grill
- Hint of charcoal makes side dishes sizzle
- June 27, 2012
- If you’re cooking out next week for July Fourth, why stop with the usual hot dogs, burgers and steaks? A hint of char adds an unexpected twist to all kinds of side dishes and desserts, from wedge salads to buttered slices of cake.
- Food: Keep an open mind to Kansas wines
- Festival to feature samplings from 14 of the state’s 23 vineyards
- June 13, 2012
- If you’re heading to the new wine-tasting event Saturday in De Soto, you won’t find wines that taste exactly like your favorite Napa Valley cabernet or Argentinian malbec. However, organizers say, that isn’t a bad thing.
- Food: Acrobatic apricots a versatile fruit
- June 6, 2012
- Each year in late spring and early summer, apricot season arrives, and imported varieties of the sweet-tart smaller cousins of the peach can be found at many area grocery stores. But it’s not every year that apricot season arrives in Kansas.
- Food: Edible heirlooms: Favorite recipes help remember loved ones
- May 23, 2012
- Some of the most valuable family treasures may not be expensive or breakable. And it’s unlikely you’ll find them itemized in anyone’s will (in fact, they may not be written down at all).
- Food: Steamed hake packs in the flavor
- May 16, 2012
- Admittedly, steamed fish doesn’t exactly scream mouthwatering. But what it lacks in excitement it more than makes up for in health cred.
- Food: Treat mom to a kid-and-dad-proof Mother’s Day breakfast
- May 9, 2012
- Here’s an at-home breakfast menu that features simple extras such as fresh herbs — not fancy techniques or hard-to-find ingredients — to make the dishes elegant enough to make mom feel special but easy enough for dad and the kids to whip up.
- Food: New way with a Southern classic: shrimp and grits
- 06:00 a.m., May 1, 2012 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- During a recent visit to a food festival in South Carolina, I was lucky enough to be invited to the home of Nathalie Dupree, cookbook author and Southern entertainer extraordinaire.
- A look inside the landfill
- Variety of activity — even wildlife — abounds inside the nearly 1,000-acre site
- April 25, 2012
- Behind the steep berms hiding it from public view, the Johnson County Landfill is home to both arid moon-like landscapes and lush green pockets teeming with wildlife. The Dispatch takes you on a photo tour of the largest landfill of its kind in the Midwest.
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What do you think about a proposed ban on smoking in public places such as restaurants, bars and workplaces?
As much as I hate government interfering with our lives, I love the smoking ban. Going out in Lawrence is so nice without smelling cigarette smoke at your table while eating.
