Sometime last year I came upon several boxes of bagged dried beans. These were fairly old and, after trying a few pounds, I found them quite tough even after a long simmering. At this same time I happened to have a neighbor coming over to help out with household chores (ahem, dishes) while I was…
It isn’t the big, flashy foods that feed a growing family through the flux of the everyday. It is those staple foods left on the back burner (no pun intended) that give calories and nourishment – raw and roasted vegetables, sourdough bread, raw milk, plenty of chicken soup, eggs, soured porridge, kefir, kraut, lots of…
This is the last cabbage we harvested… also known as the only cabbage we harvested. It seems odd to say this now on an 80-degree February day, but about a month ago we had a freeze that wiped out the mustard and the broccoli and the cabbages. Well, all of the cabbages except this guy….
This little cookbook shelf is tucked into a corner of the kitchen whose counters are currently housing gallons and gallons of turnip ferments. This is, of course, near the dirty dishes awaiting their run through the sink and the basket of eggs brought in by little hands just last night. While I’m not much of a…
