Posted in Gluten Free, Low Carbohydrate on Mar 19th, 2013
Over the past few years, I’ve ordered all of my meat from I order my meat from a local farmer. He not only sells beef, but poultry, pork, lamb and goat. I tend to have two orders, a spring order which includes beef and pork and a winter order which includes beef and a whole […]
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One of the foods I love best as a snack food are nuts. Walnuts, almonds, and pistachios are high on my go-to list as a snack that is easy to carry outside of my house for times I need something. The problem is that nuts, like so many grains are hard to digest. They contain […]
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Posted in Ingredients, Preserving, Seasonal on Sep 4th, 2012
This year, I wanted to do more with fermentation than with water bath canning. I still did quite a bit of water bath canning, but I still had canning left over from last year, which I need to eat, so some things (such as tomato sauce) didn’t get done this year. I have a Harsch […]
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Posted in food activism on Sep 25th, 2011
For most of my life, I hated milk. I stopped drinking it at a very young age (basically as soon as I could be stubborn enough that my mother realized that it was a lost battle). As I grew older, I realized that I’m lactose intolerant. How did I figure this out if I stopped […]
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Posted in Personal Story on Sep 1st, 2011
I grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, a fairly typical child of the early 70’s. My mom, a child of the depression, was much more interested in the price of food, rather than the quality of it. I can’t blame her, most people didn’t know the difference. She wasn’t very fond of cooking, […]
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