[From 8-Sep-2012] More incredibly simple and tasty local food: the basic BELT - bacon egg lettuce tomato - all local except for salt, pepper, butter, and mayo. Bacon from the farmers' market. Eggs and veg - heirloom tom, second cut baby lettuces and a smattering of arugula - from … [Read more...] about Basic BELT (bacon egg lettuce tomato)
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Simple stew
In the end, this is all about food and eating. Tonight, back to basics: heat applied to simple, locally grown ingredients, no culinary art or even a favorite recipe, just some mellow cooking. In the pot: grass-fed beef from a few miles down the road, plus, from our harvest, … [Read more...] about Simple stew
Chickens, frozen
There they are: 38 newly processed chickens, freezing solid in the chest freezer (39 minus the one we took to roast fresh). It's the last stop before the table on what was a pretty fine meat bird run. Like everything else on the tiny farm (and in life in general!), when you … [Read more...] about Chickens, frozen
Weighing chickens
Booked a chicken processing date today: slaughterhouse day is July 29. They've been looking good all along, but suddenly, the White Rocks are seeming especially mighty tasty. I keep remembering one of them hurrying by with a long worm trailing from his beak, then quickly slurping … [Read more...] about Weighing chickens
Local beef
A cool change with the much bigger farmers' market we're at this year is the easy access to lots more local food from other market vendors. We're there every Saturday, and so are they! (Nothing better for really appreciating a farmers' market than being both a seller and a … [Read more...] about Local beef