These petite daffies come in once a year, and, at the Farmer’s Market, are only $2/bunch. This is two bunches. The really good thing is they smell divine! The scent is all over the living room now. We have flowers for so short a time, why not enjoy the really good ones?
I am so sorry [...]
I bought this 8 lb shoulder butt last Thursday and an 8 lb boneless pork shoulder butt at the same time. It was so good that I bought another 8 lb shoulder butt later that same day. Naturally fed and grazed pork is good. It was on sale and it is good to eat. [...]
Canning is such a joyful experience. The canning pot on the stove, the pot with the lids and rims steaming and the jars in a pan with lots of soap and hot water to rinse! One can pick and choose the ingredients for a recipe or just throw things together and see what happens. I’ve [...]
Cooking a turkey is a personal thing. My Mom made a wonderful stuffed turkey that family would come 150 miles to have in a day. (Besides her Giblet Gravy and mashed potatoes!) I tried the getting up at 5:30 to stuff and put the turkey on and found that sucked a big one! My method [...]
Well, I found a great way to make my own tomato paste and save it for future use. I just took a 28oz can of plum tomatos with juice and put it in a sauce pan over very low heat and smushed the tomatoes with a potato masher and cooked low until it looked like [...]
And being that as it may, there’s a cool spreadsheet program to determine where your stores are at today, and what you need to stock up on.
Mwalla.
*hat tip to Shasha at Hen and Harvest who appears to be starting a pantry series. Be sure to bookmark!
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or… what not to do!
1. If you are pickling cauliflower in brine left over from a jar of olives, make sure that all the cauliflower is completely submerged. Any tiny bits left poking out of the brine will mold and spoil the whole batch. Bleah.
2. When dehydrating zucchini chips for [...]
July 21, 2008 5:58 PM
ABC News’ Charles Herman reports: Don’t expect lower prices in the grocery aisles any time soon.
Food prices are expected to rise 4.5 percent to 5 percent this year and then another 4 percent to 5 percent in 2009, according to a government forecast to be released this week from the Department [...]
Part I can be found here.
Okay, I should be at the farmers market this very moment, but I’m leaving town for a few days tomorrow evening, and I don’t see the point of buying food I don’t have the time, room or means to handle before and during my absence. And my plans to run [...]
Continue reading about Stocking Up 101: Stuff {Storage, Part II}
A couple of summers ago I ended up with a bumper crop of tomatoes. Huge. Enormous. So many I had no idea what to do with them. We ate tomatoes in salads and on sandwiches and cooked dishes in every way I could think of that my very picky family would [...]
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