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I don’t want corn fed to the cows I eat or get milk from. I also don’t want corn as fuel. I don’t want corn sweetened food or drink. I would also prefer less corn in the Farm Bill. But these limits still leave many positive, healthy, and delicious options for our powerful giant mutant [...]

Granola-what’s so hippie about it anyway?

Making my own granola feels like I’ve really stepped into serious hippie stereotype. But we have to have something to eat our delicious raw milk with, and after buying it there isn’t much left for expensive packaged cereal. Even bulk granola is for the hippie elite, and too much sugar for us.
So I went for [...]

Sunny Day Dutch Oven Bread

My experience with so called “no-knead bread”, the article I got the recipe from, and your subsequent experience baking this bread is like an endless mirrors in mirrors of people wanting to make perfect “artisan bread” and then, yes, doing it in their own kitchen. It’s like some kind of carnival promise really coming true.
The [...]

Sauerkraut update update!

A simple, but untimely, google search revealed that in fact my sauerkraut did NOT fail because of the mold.
There are a lot of discussions about this out there about this.
Apparently when Alice Waters said to skim off scum she also meant mold? I think being specific about something so out of the ordinary in cooking [...]

Rainy Day Bread

Homemade bread is just so economical, it seemed crucial that we start baking more often in our need to cut the food budget. As usual in my internet searches for good recipes, I didn’t find anything I really liked. (This is usually because they aren’t using natural or organic products so I feel like their [...]

Cabbage!

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 [...]