One of the best benefits of having a 1/4 steer in the freezer is steak any night you want it. When we ordered our steer we asked the butcher to maximize the number of steaks and minimize the amount of ground beef that we got. So we have a lot of border line steaks in […]
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Is it Friday yet?
Posted in recipes, locavore, EatLocalChallenge on Oct 1st, 2007
It was a great if exhausting weekend. The Sustainable Ballard Festival was fun - not quite as busy as the Seattle Tilth fest, but pretty good considering it was blustery, overcast and raining for much of the day. I met Jim McDermott, as mentioned before, and he said helow to my hens. The girls also […]
Dreaming of corn
Posted in recipes, locavore, EatLocalChallenge on Sep 23rd, 2007
I love fresh corn on the cob. But I love even more sweet corn in the middle of winter. To make that happen this winter, and bring back that long missed taste from my childhood, I bought 20 ears of corn from Gypsy Row today - 10 white and 10 yellow.
Putting up corn in the […]
An apple a day, or two or three or four
Posted in recipes, locavore, EatLocalChallenge on Sep 23rd, 2007
Hmmm, a lot to say so I guess I’ll make this two posts. Today I spent my day in the kitchen, big surprise, right? I went to the Everett Farmer’s market and picked up corn, green beans and apples from my favorite farms. I ate hot corn with butter, salt and pepper on a stick from […]
Mike and the guys left this morning at 4 am for Montana. They’ll be up near Helena for the next 10 days hunting elk and deer. This is their yearly guys trip, usually they hunt in Washington, but this year they decided to take a field trip to MT instead. Each year they camp in […]