Check it out… one of the first freshly baked loaves of bread (semolina bread!) from my new outdoor cob oven. This is only the beginning… the days of bread, pizza, and more are just beginning…
Expect a write-up about building our cob oven on The Year of Mud.
p.s. In my right hand is the very honky-crappy [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Food’
Fresh bread from the outdoor cob oven
Potatoes in the fire
Sometimes I get really, really excited (and equally obsessed) with making (and eating) a certain food. Lately, it’s been potatoes in the fire. There’s just something to say for taters cooked on coals with some butter (homemade) and salt. You gotta celebrate simple pleasures sometimes.
Food Forests, Pizza Ovens, and Rooftop Strawberries
Here’s a recent article (well, I wrote it several months ago) that I wrote that was featured in the newest March Hare, Dancing Rabbit’s quarterly newsletter. It touches upon my plans and hopes and dreams of my food future at Dancing Rabbit, and how I’d like to see food culture grow and develop. Here ya [...]
Gardening seasons begins: making a garden bed
Today was in the 50s, and by Monday it will be 70 degrees. I am excited, because I imagine I’ll be outside all day the next three days, completing my exterior finish earthen plaster on my house, and doing more gardening work.
I have just barely begun with gardening. Today I hauled three wheelbarrows full of [...]
The Ithaca farming and food scenes
I recently visited my friend Sean up in the Ithaca area of New York state for a few days. It’s a great little community up there. I’m a fan. There are strong progressive / environmental / farming / natural building / permaculture / local foods scenes. It’s definitely something of a hotbed.
Sean recently got himself [...]
Sandhill sorghum harvest festival
This is long overdue by now, but better late than never. Every year, Sandhill Farm has its annual Sorghum Harvest Festival. Sorghum is Sandhill’s primary cash crop, and the harvest requires a pretty large amount of labor. All of the sorghum is harvested by hand, after all. And then there’s the pressing and boiling down [...]
Cook with a hot box and save energy
Whenever I cook rice, I use a hot box. I boil the rice for five minutes, and then throw the pot into an insulated hot box for about three hours, and then have perfectly cooked rice for dinner. It’s a no-brainer way to use less energy.
I wrote up an article for Planetsave about how to [...]
Making applesauce
Other than the massive amounts of cobbing lately, there has been some excitement on the food front, too. On July 31 (my birthday), Jeff noticed the first truly ripe apple on my apple tree, and we picked it and ate it. What a treat. Delicious. I have been fortunate enough to inherit a mature apple [...]
Hunting for morel mushrooms
The end of April through early May is the peak season for hunting morel mushrooms in this area. Morels are delicious little mushrooms that are short-lived and notoriously difficult to pin down to a specific environment. Generally, they pop up near dead or dying elm trees in cool, shady woods, or especially in recent wildfire [...]
Hopes for making homemade butter
It’s easy for me to get pretty excited about food. Especially making new and different types of food. Yesterday, I went to the dairy to get some milk for my usual kefir making. I left an extra quart of plain milk outside overnight, and since it was so cold, it froze and the cap bent [...]
