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Our locally-raised pig was slaughtered a couple of weeks ago and was finally butchered and ready to pick up last Saturday. Yay! We put everything into the freezer but kept a package of 2 pork chops out for dinner that night, and grilled them up with my favorite not-very-local marinade — red wine vinegar, [...] I missed a Dark Days meal this week — not because we weren’t eating delicious local food, just that there was no one big meal, and we were out of town for the weekend. We’re out this weekend too (and the next, ack) but I may write up a generic soup (“Piles part 2″) [...] I was home not-quite-sick-but-not-great on Monday, the solstice, so we built a big fire in the fireplace and did our Solstice stockings at noon instead of after work as planned. And we cooked all day, which is what really makes it a holiday, I think. Our pretty Blue Slate hen turkey met an [...] It’s Part 1 because I am sure this won’t be our first display of cozy comfort food this winter. My mom often made something she called Swiss steak, which I remember fondly. I was afraid that when I went to find a recipe, her version would be nothing like the canonical Swiss steak, but [...] Thanksgiving is our main holiday, now, since we started growing food. We had a low-key dinner, with just Garth’s folks and one friend, which was exactly what we needed. But we went all out all the same, with a pretty traditional menu that was mostly local and significantly homegrown. We grew the turkey as [...] So, we really dropped the ball on keeping everyone updated on the broiler chickens via the website. We really intended to, but it turned out that 150 chickens took up kind of a lot of time. So, here’s a retrospective of their lives … The chickens (affectionately known as nuggets) moved to pasture [...] After at least one (maybe two?) years of thinking about it, and deciding it would be too hard, and wishing I had done it, I’ve finally signed up for Laura at Urban Hennery’s Dark Days Challenge. From November 15 – March 31, eat one meal a week that’s as SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, Ethical) [...] … with the obvious exceptions of the wine, salt, pepper. We grew this whole meal Chicken: grown by us. Beets, potatoes, onions, carrots, garlic, roasting under the chicken: grown by us. Butter for basting: made by us from cream from organic, happy Washington pastured cows from Fresh Breeze. Stock for helping veggies cook: [...] (No, not that kind of Roundup.) New things: First day at the farmers’ market! We sold 7 $4 pints of plums. The booth fee was $12.50. So, not bajillionaires, but about in line with what we expected. And it was really good to have our first market experience be pretty low-key. Slow ramp-up is [...] Probably because late February is like the dead zone, where the overwintering and stored veggies are almost gone, but it’s just barely too early to plant anything new, we have been feeling stalled in terms of meal creativity and production. But we have pulled through somehow — I thank our still-well-stocked freezer! and our [...] February 2012 Important Update!! Tom Johns, the owner of Territorial Seed, commented on this post (see below) to let us know that as of the 2012 catalog, Territorial is no longer carrying any Seminis products. We confirmed this by emailing Territorial’s customer service and they verified it. Great news! Since it’s apparently politics week [...] We had sort of a lull in the meals around here in general, after Thanksgiving. We had a lot of sandwiches and the like. But recently, we have had a few meals that were wonderfully farm-based! Bean & veggie soup, to counteract the over-meatiness of Thanksgiving homegrown Scarlet Emperor beans homegrown kale homegrown [...] |
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