Or something a little less smug.
In anticipation of Thanksgiving, I took a trip this week to another (freaking) local fruit farm for pie pumpkins. I know the canned stuff is popular, but for holidays I feel a strong pull toward homemade food. (Yes, it’s still pie when the fruit is canned, but it ain’t...
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Or: My new badass food strainer which will revolutionize home preservation endeavors as I know them
Because I’ve got a few posts coming up on canning, I wanted to take a minute to show you my new toy. It’s the Roma Food/Veg Strainer. I bought it for two reasons:
It will enable me to process tomatoes...
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Wait, don’t click out.
I kept thinking of suggestive titles for this post that might get people’s attention — “What to do with a dozen rubber rings and just a little electricity” or “Hot syrup and headspace”– but heck with it. Sooner or later people will figure out that this a post about food preservation,...
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Or Country, with just a smidge of gangsta
Photo credit: Darwin Bell
From my Facebook wall: “Today I ate so many raspberries, I swear I’m going to crap jam.” *
Oh yay. More fruit. Raspberries are in season, so I schlepped the boys out to the country again, where we picked about five pounds of...
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Seriously, I have got to get this book back to the library. So in the interest of being allowed to check out new material again, I give you my cheap and easy review of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.
Cheap and easy is fitting here. As people who’ve read The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A...
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Photo credit: AMichiganMom
So everyone’s talking about their CSAs, and their pea shoots and their garlic scapes and their new lettuce and their precious teeny-tiny radishes, and you know what?
All y’all can shut it.
That’s right, you with the beets: Shut.It.
Don’t mind me, I’m just jealous. I haven’t gotten anything from my CSA yet. Nothing, that...
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In addition to #1, “Because it’s a supportive thing to do,” there are secrets he could learn.
Look here. Just a boring refrigerator.
I wonder if there’s anything good in there.
Doesn’t look like it.
But wait!
False alarm. It’s just oatmeal. Heh.
I’m so sneaky.
Honestly, anyone who believes a recipe for chocolate chip cookies only makes two dozen is...
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My husband and sons are off doing boy things this weekend, and I’m home alone. It’s very strange: I’ve been left alone with our boys dozens of times, but I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve been alone-alone overnight in my house in a decade. Weird.
Anyway, I’m not exactly feeling the blog...
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I found this book in the new nonfiction section of my local library and had to pick it up.
I’ve got all the equipment for preserving: a hot water canner, a pressure cooker/canner, a second freezer, and lots of jars. I’ve got organic, local produce coming my way: We recently joined a CSA...
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Tonight I made our last meal with the old oven. Since I couldn’t get to our local meat market, and the other meat in town is pretty gross, I made a pizza using this recipe for the crust. It was easy, quick, and good, as long as you can get past the fact that...
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