Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Cake Tuesday: play ball.

Wow - it MUST be wedding season; I can't update to save my life. Or come up with reasonably clever titles. I should call this "yet another weekly synopsis under the guise of Cake Tuesday." Catchy?

I did make it up to Pie Ranch this week to purchase some of their locally grown wheat to grind my own flour. (This is less difficult than it sounds, when you've got one of these handy KitchenAid grain mill attachments.) As any regular reader knows, while I don't like cake so much I do LOVE pie, so I'd been looking forward to the visit for some time. And of course when we arrived they were out of pie.

Pie Ranch.

OUT. OF. PIE.

Story of my life. I made, instead, an ollalieberry cobbler, with fresh-picked berries and a biscuit crust full of crystallized ginger, cinnamon and lemon zest.

I also attended a special reception for and viewing of Food, Inc., which has certainly garnered more national attention than the very well-made Food Fight. (Better funding, slicker website, way sadder, same overall message.) It's got some of the same names involved, but a little more shock value, I suppose, with hidden cameras in slaughterhouses and such. The question is, are people who have poor eating habits going to make the effort to see this movie? My guess is no. I suspect that 99% of its audience doesn't buy industrial food or eat at fast-food chains. So how can we make it more effective?

I don't think little kids should HAVE to see the movie, necessarily, because it is pretty graphic, but I think it should be a solid part of the curriculum in health classes in junior high or high school.

For the cake this week, I'll share a groom's cake. There's a little section of the main site for these, which I keep meaning to update and just don't. So. For your viewing pleasure, an Astros baseball cap: