I'm in the process of signing up for my first CSA. The farm is about 15 miles from my house and I'm extremely excited about it. For reference, I live on the Front Range in Colorado (Denver metro area ( Read more... )

It's strawberry season in my neck of the woods, and I'm eager to make the most of the local bounty and go up to the local pick-your-own place to stock up. Unfortunately, I haven't yet hit upon a good way to store strawberries (or use them somehow) for the off-months. Last year I made puree with the strawberries I didn't use, thinking strawberry ( Read more... )

The link to the "Foodie Food Storage" article got me wishing I had more info about a few things. Sharon Astyk writes:

[I]t is worth remembering that the peasant cuisines that we base much of our best food upon never contained meat, milk and eggs in the quantities we have them now, never ate them all year round. That is, no one ever ate osso buco ( Read more... )

Does anyone have any personal experience with food dehydrators? Any recommendations ( Read more... )

Ahhahhaa no seriously I slay me ( Read more... )

We're eating a lot of yellow squash casserole and cauliflower with cheese sauce, giving away the beets, and going through green beans and potatoes like mad. (Every dinner this week has been veggie - with a lot of dairy, sure, but no meat! yay!) But the tomatoes are starting to come in in full force and (after recovering from the very long weekend ( Read more... )