Castle Rock ice cream - organic, delicious and on sale at Outpost June 15 - June 30. This is the good stuff. Don't say we didn't tell you.
We're not bragging or anything, but the lovely people at Lakefront Brewery made a 40th birthday beer just for us Outpost peeps and we have photos to prove it!
Dubbed "Mr Grain Jeans," the brew is chock full of four organic grains and promises to be more delicious than ... well... any delicious thing you've ever had.
A note for the young people: "Mr Grain Jeans" is a nod to Mr Green Jeans, the host of Captain Kangaroo, a TV show that ran from 1955 to 1984 on CBS.
Another note for the young people: "You like me, you really, really like me!" Is a nod to Sally Field's famously bubbly-exuberant 1985 Oscar speech. She didn't say that exactly, but that's the misquote that endures in the collective cultural memory and we like it, so we're sticking with it.
I suppose when you're 40, you have to start explaining yourself in this way. Sheesh. Where's the beer?
Have a favorite recipe that languishes in the cookbook collection because it's simply too indulgent to bear? Perhaps a heavy lasagne or super-creamy fettucine alfredo? A decadent chocolate cake?
Well, pull that baby out and e-mail it to the Exchange magazine. Outpost's own nutritionist, Judy Mayer, is offering monthly recipe makeovers in her column. You submit the naughty, and she'll show you the nice. Be gone, nasty sugars, salts and fats! Hello applesauce!
The solutions are so brilliant, we think Judy should be knighted. Imagine it ... herbs and spices instead of a full serving of salt, low-fat yogurt in place of butter, grapeseed oil for frying and honey instead of sugar. Simple and healthy - the way Judy likes it.
Send your no-good, bad, rotten, delicious recipes to judy@outpostnaturalfoods.coop with "Recipe Makeover" in the subject line. Recipes will be chosen on an entirely discriminatory and random basis, depending on how yummy they promise to be.
Photo Michael Coates
We must give credit where it's due, and the fabulous Nigella Lawson is oft credited with being the woman who put the "goddess" into chefdom. Her allure is so complete, her "je ne sais quoi" so ... oh, I don't know... that the term "the N factor" has been applied to her very essence.
Nigella Lawson loves food. Nigella Lawson loves preparing food. Nigella Lawson loves eating food. Talking about food. Filming food. Blogging food. Making smart phone apps about food. Nigella Lawson lifts the feminist lid on the cooking pot and lets us know that as far as she is concerned - those things are all good. Nigella knows full well that cooking isn't a 1950s-era chore - it's creative, artistic, meditative and -- holy cannoli -- it's lucrative!
But Nigella is not the only one. Milwaukee has its own Nigellas. First of all, we have our very own Diana and Carrie - the two women who write our fabulous Pantry Raid column. They love cooking almost as much as they love throwing a little sass and innuendo into their written recipes.
And then there's the three Wauwatosa women who write Haute Apple Pie. They seem to subscribe fully to Nigella's way of thinking; they love to cook, they love food, they love to savor the process, and they love to blog about it. And they have their fans, too.
We wanted to write a little about the cultural shift at play here. People are embracing cooking, gardening, knitting and other hands-on, meditative and productive pastimes that speak of a simpler, slower time. Maybe it's the recession. Maybe it's a reaction to our crazy, fast-paced, tech-overloaded lives. Maybe women can embrace domestic arts because we are choosing to, and that's an important distinction. So we talked to some people in town who are donning 50s-style aprons and rocking them. See the article in the May issue of the Exchange, on stands this week.
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