Hailing from the Ozarks, Addie Broyles expanded her cooking (and eating) skills on the West Coast and Spain before settling in Austin, mainly for the aguas frescas at the taco stand down the street from her house where she, husband Ian and son Julian are now attempting to grow their own food in the backyard. They recently welcomed another baby boy and two chickens to the family.
Relishing food is about taking time to enjoy what has become the often hurried and mundane task of nourishing our bodies. Relish Austin is Addie's search for things that make her go "mmmm." High brow, low brow. Fast food, slow food. In Central Texas. On the Web. On the streets. In your garden and in your kids' lunch box. In your refrigerator and on your dinner table.
Relish Austin is also the name of Addie's print column that appears in the Austin American-Statesman a few times a month.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
By Addie Broyles
| Thursday, March 19, 2009, 10:39 AM
Amid the
craziness of
SXSW, we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day (and a certain someone’s birthday) with a nice dinner, followed by a get-together in our backyard. Even though it was dark, we could see a lush bed of baby greens just begging to be picked and eaten. Out came the scissors, and within seconds, I had a big bowl of fresh, tender lettuce, cabbage and
other assorted greens. Dipped in a little olive oil and salt, the mix of bright, bitter and spicy mesclun leaves was a perfect late-night St. Patty’s Day snack.
I’m really liking this cut-and-come-again method of eating lettuce from my raised beds. I’ve done several cuttings and, with the help of the glorious rain we received last week, the leaves keep growing back.
This rain convinced me that the plants know the difference between hose water and water falling from the sky. As you can see in the collage below, everything shot up a few inches during and just after the rain, including zucchini and green bean seeds I planted just a little more than a week ago.
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Food in your backyard
By Addie Broyles
| Thursday, March 19, 2009, 09:49 AM
Thanks for the graffiti artist who created this work on South First. No better word to describe our fair city.
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Chewing the fat
