Our food in 2010 seems to be following a color pattern…
In Nourishing Traditions, there is one instance that Sally Fallon gives a thumbs up to the increased globalization (and industrialization) of food and that is to the availability of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables year round, which insures that people will eat enough [...]
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No lettuce required for this purely garden salad. Tomatoes and cucumbers have been our most reliable (and hard to keep up with) producers this month. This salad gets through one cuke per person and a handful of cherry tomatoes. Our bigger sized tomatoes haven’t been ripening quickly and coming out mealy so these small guys [...]
Is this too obvious? Apparently not since the smart way to shop for food is to get more for you money. I compare unit prices too and want the best deal. I’ve just decided to incorporate external costs into this calculation. The quick run through is;how was it made, how did the production of this [...]
Currently in a financial situation I hope to never repeat I have been exploring some of the resources out there for budgeting, saving, cutting costs. Paired with this exploration (which is really more of a necessity to change my spending, improve my income, and really work towards reducing debt and saving what I can) is [...]
I am growing to really love cabbage. Getting into winter greens has been pretty satisfying this season, using the gauge of what is available at the farmer’s markets to know if something is really ready to be eaten. But frankly, the flavor of cabbage is much sweeter and succulent than I had once thought.
Sauerkraut:
Two of [...]
