Food - The Durango Herald

Christmas dinner can be festive - and thrifty - with this $60 feast for four

One of the realities of Christmas 2020 is that many people are on tighter budgets than usual. That doesn’t have to be an impediment to a sumptuous, festive holiday meal – instead, let it be ...

DATE: Dec 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Figs stuffed with goat cheese are the low-effort, high-flavor appetizer you need

I lit up like the twinkling decorations around me when I overheard two women at a holiday potluck a few years ago rave about their favorite bite of the night: the stuffed figs I brought! Thi...

DATE: Dec 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

It’s holiday meal time at Durango School District 9-R

Escalante Middle prepares 50 meals for families; DHS cafeteria hub for assembling 1,050 food bags

DATE: Dec 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Crisp on top and cheesy throughout, this butternut squash and apple gratin belongs on your fall table

Every fall, I sample as many apple varieties at the farmers market as I can manage. My goal: Find the most flavorful, naturally – but also the absolute firmest, too. Nothing makes me sadder ...

DATE: Dec 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Food giants seek ban on soy from deforested Brazil region

Some of the world’s largest food companies and grocers urged commodity suppliers including Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., Bunge Ltd., Cargill Inc. and Louis Dreyfus Co. to stop trading soybeans...

DATE: Dec 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

12 holiday cookie recipes to end the year on a sweeter note

Like just about everything else in this tumultuous year, baking in 2020 has felt like no other. From ingredient shortages and reduced grocery runs to the crushing, simultaneous we...

DATE: Dec 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

7 smart tips for baking better cookies

We’ve baked a lot of cookies in our time. Dozens of batches, untold hundreds (thousands?) of individual treats. Between all that cooking, along with a healthy dose of developing and editing ...

DATE: Dec 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Allium essentials

Onions, shallots, scallions and leeks are mostly interchangeable in recipes. Here’s how to use what you have.

DATE: Dec 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Examining China’s claims of coronavirus on frozen foods

BEIJING – China says it has detected the coronavirus on packages of imported frozen food, but how valid are its claims and how serious is the threat to public health? Frozen shrim...

DATE: Nov 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

As a homeless teen, I foraged for wild food to survive. The lessons still shape my cooking.

Etta James sings about a Sunday kind of love as I pour a tiny mountain of flour onto the kitchen table. I push a crater into the center and crack an egg. One should be enough. I can always a...

DATE: Nov 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Bayfield’s Pine River Shares distributes hundreds of Thanksgiving meals

‘This is the biggest event we’ve ever done’

DATE: Nov 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Tips for cooking (and saving) a smaller Thanksgiving feast

If you’re planning a smaller Thanksgiving gathering this year because of social distancing, you don’t have to give up the turkey, stuffing, pie and other traditional fare. Thanksg...

DATE: Nov 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food