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Basic BELT (bacon egg lettuce tomato)

3 Feb 20228 Sep 2012 by Mike (tfb)
Basic bacon-lettuce-tomato plus egg sandwich

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 … Read the rest

Categories Cooking & Eating, Local food, Veggies Tags eggs, lettuce, meat, Summer, tomato Leave a comment

Simple stew

21 Sep 20112 Sep 2011 by Mike (tfb)
Beef 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 … Read the rest

Categories Cooking & Eating, Local food, Veggies Tags beans, carrot, chunky cooking, garlic, meat, onion, potato, Summer 3 Comments

Chickens, frozen

3 Feb 202230 Jul 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Frozen chickens

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 … Read the rest

Categories Animals, Local food, Tools Tags chickens, electricity, future, meat, storage, Summer 9 Comments

Weighing chickens

25 Apr 202214 Jul 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Weighing chickens

Booked a chicken processing date today: slaughterhouse day is July 29. They’ve been looking good all along, but now the White Rocks seem mighty…tasty. I keep remembering one of them hurrying by with a long worm trailing from his beak,… Read the rest
Categories Animals, Fieldwork, Tools Tags chickens, meat, scale, slaughterhouse, Summer, weighing 35 Comments

Local beef

30 Jun 200927 Jun 2009 by Mike (tfb)

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 … Read the rest

Categories Cooking & Eating, Local food, Market & Stand, Veggies Tags farmers' market, garlic scapes, lettuce, meat, mesclun, salad greens, stand, Summer 6 Comments
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