We read, we cook, we chat. That is the FSC Book Club. What a summer! If you’ve been following along with the FSC Book Club, you’ve been savoring every bit of the summer fruit bounty by freezing, canning or preserving with us using Put ‘Em Up Fruit: A Preserving Guide & Cookbook. Creative Ways to Put…
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{recipe} Curau de Milho
Corn was and is a major stable on our table. I have many family recipes that call for fresh to dried corn. I make them often, but there is one that neither my husband or kids care for very much, but I still take the time to make for myself every year when fresh sweet…
{home & body craft} Crocheted Face Cloths
I have have a very quick, easy, and satisfying crafting project for you all. Those of you that wash your face each and every night know that a washcloth is just wayyyyyy too big and unnecessary for a nightly face washing. For this months project, you will crochet small, reusable face washcloths. This project truly…
{GRAIN BRAINS CHALLENGE} RYE ON THE BRAIN
Grain Brains Challenge A recipe challenge to help you get whole grains into your mouth, not just your kitchen. I grew rye this year. My son and I planted it in the fall, in a much smaller plot than we’d planted wheat the year before. That year, we had new land that we’d scraped of urban rubble…
{diy project} Wine Grape Jelly
A few years ago my husband planted four wine grape vines to trellis up around our deck and onto the side of our house. He bought St. Croix, the most cold-hardy red wine grape he could find. The vines have been vigorous and have created a beautiful bower of greenery, filled this time of year…
{recipe} Raspberry Rhubarb Crisp
I remember the moment that I realized there were raspberry and blackberry bushes in the back yard of my newly bought house a few years ago. Pure joy. I have always loved fruit picking – it’s one of my favorite pastimes. Over the past few years we’ve planted fruit bushes and trees in our third…
{bread making} Homemade Naan
We are trying hard to cultivate frugality so we can stop working and do what we want; writing, gardening and traveling. This is not an easy lift for me. I have taken to silently chanting “cessation of desire” every time I step into a store. Because of our life style goals, that is, life without…
{FSC Book Club} Assignment 1 & 2 Recap
We read, we cook, we chat. That is the FSC Book Club. Can you believe it? We’ve already finished our first two assignments for Round 4 of the FSC Book Club. We are reading and and cooking our way through Put ‘Em Up Fruit: A Preserving Guide & Cookbook. Creative Ways to Put ‘em Up and Use ‘em…
{grain brains challenge} Alan’s Rye Berry Salad
Grain Brains Challenge: A recipe challenge to help you get whole grains into your mouth, not just your kitchen. I love wheat berry salad. The nutty-crunchy-sweetness in most recipes is just delicious. But I got curious about how it might taste without the crutch of a sweet component. What about a more savory grain salad? No raisins…
{meet the meat} Grass Fed Ground Beef
You wouldn’t think that ground beef would need it’s own blog post, would you? Well, it does. Ground beef from feedlots (ie. the stuff you generally get in the conventional grocery store) is relatively forgiving. You can cook the heck out of it and it still tastes the same. Many a frying pan of taco…
{reflections on food} My Independence Day
Last 4th of July I began my independence from sugar. I went to the parade on Avenue A, the street where I grew up. The parade began with my generation, in the thick of the centennial spirit of the mid-seventies. One year I wore the bridesmaid gown I wore at my uncle’s wedding. The next…
{drink it up} Lemon Syrup, Lemonade & Lemon Vinegar
Editor’s Note: Jennifer Wilkerson has given us homemade bread & dinner rolls and farmer’s cheese… now she brings us a triple doozy: Lemon Syrup, Lemonade & for your cleaning needs lemon vinegar. Man, she’s good isn’t she? -Christina When farmers markets and fruit stands are bursting with seasonal goodness meals are easy. Any combination of…
Experimenting with Green Wheat: Freekeh & Gruenkern
While obsessively researching wheat on the web, my husband Michael came across a description of freekeh, or Gruenkern (pronounced groon cairn), that is, green wheat. It is apparently something of a craze in certain foodie/grainy circles of people and a traditional food in both the Middle East and a few villages near Wurzburg, Germany; go…
{diy project} Pickled Red Onions
Often times my favorite part of a meal are the condiments. Condiments take everything to the next level whether it is your favorite barbeque sauce, mustard, hot sauce, pickle or even ketchup. I often find food to simply be the vessel that delivers the delicious flavors of all the extras. One of my go to…
{fsc classes} My Flour Evangelism at the New HWFC
Honest Weight Food Coop has a new store, and I got to break in the new teaching kitchen. The day after it opened, I offered a Flour Tour and treated a dozen people to my flour evangelism. The gist of this mission is to use whole grain flours, preferably stone milled, and made from grains…
