What’s the Mission?
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m challenging myself to eat me no more that two times per week for two weeks. Well, the next day, my wonderful husband brought home a pizza for lunch. With meat. And I had some pizza for lunch and then again for breakfast today. So I’ve already blown [...]
We just had a delicious, spicy, homemade pad thai for dinner. The combination of chicken, rice noodles, sauce and fresh veggies was so good that I gobbled a second serving as well. And my mouth and brain wanted more, but my tummy is so full I can hardly move. Eating good food feels sooooo good. [...]
Some Twitter friends were recently discussing this language, found on many dairy product labels: No significant difference has been shown between milk derived from rBST-treated and non-rBST-treated cows. A couple of people misread this as meaning that the milk in question DID contain milk derived from rBST-treated cows. However, it’s really the opposite — the [...]
Saturday, I went to the farmers’ market and got a half flat of strawberries and a half flat of blueberries for JAM! I’ve already made the strawberry jam, as well as some blueberry pancakes. You can get exact recipes and instructions for making and preserving jam in lots of places. My favorite is PickYourOwn.org. I [...]
I’m starting to realize that growing a garden and subscribing to a CSA might be redundant. Fortunately, so far most of our crops are not overlapping! We are probably going to have an overabundance of peas soon, but we’ll see. We like stir-fry and raw peas (I’ve been snacking all day), so that might be [...]
We got our first CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) box this past Thursday! It’s exciting, because we’ve never belonged to a real CSA before. We’ve gotten produce from the farmers’ market, and from a couple of different food-buying clubs, but never through a CSA. Our first box included garlic chives, garlic scapes, broccoli raab, arugula, several [...]
Uncle Jack was old when we visited his farm, but he still kept cows. He milked the cows by hand twice a day, squatting on one of those funny little stools, and we were allowed to watch. I tried some of the raw milk, but I was a city kid, raised on supermarket milk. I [...]
People often say that organic and natural farming just isn’t profitable. Some farmers insist that conventional methods developed in the 20th century are necessary in order to make a living. But there are investors out there who see it differently. Yes, wealthy people who could be putting their money into Wall Street! In this OPB [...]
