Archive for 'Food'
Posted: November 6th, 2008 by
Aaron
One week ago the mutton in my shepherds pie was staring at me from a small pen on Mack Hill. This ram has become part of our harvest, as much as the tomatoes, herbs and potatoes pulled from the garden last month. Few families produce more than plant matter from their backyard gardens
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Posted under Food, Sheep.
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Posted: November 5th, 2008 by
Lisa
I’ve been baking our bread for a while now, mostly because of the crap that goes into commercial bread. No thanks. I’ll just use whole grains, honey or maple syrup, eggs and milk from my own critters. I’ve got three or four recipes that I can do in my sleep now. So now I’m
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Posted: August 3rd, 2008 by
Frank
Last year we skimmed along the edge of drought for most of the summer, and as a result the mushrooming stank. Despite many trips into the woods, we got a single not very full gallon freezer bag of black trumpets. The good news is that it was just enough on top of 2005’s spectacular stash
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Posted under Black Trumpet Mushroom, Chanterelles, Food, Mushrooms, Sweet Teeth Mushroom, oyster.
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Posted: August 2nd, 2008 by
Lisa
I made a zero-mile meal for dinner tonight, after we went mushroom hunting in our woods and scored loads and loads of oyster mushrooms. We found a dead cherry tree just covered in them, and they were right at prime in both size and age. Sweet! Actually, oyster mushrooms are slightly sweet. We’ve found
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Posted under Black Trumpet Mushroom, Food, Mushrooms, oyster.
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Posted: July 24th, 2008 by
Frank
Oh, the blasted rain this week has just been awful. I had been on top of all of the basil, but then it rained and rained and rained, and it all flowered while I wasn’t looking. I decided to just bite the bullet today and get soaked while I pinched off all the flowers,
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Posted under Food, Uncategorized.
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Posted: July 19th, 2008 by
Lisa
I was so busy this week because I was here by myself, had a dog in heat, plus all the usual farm stuff that I swear I kept forgetting to eat almost every day. Not good, because I know I need to fuel my body if I’m going to work so physically hard, but
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Posted: July 12th, 2008 by
Frank
Duck. Oh how I love you with an unholy passion. We slaughtered our very own pastured duck a couple of weekends ago. I’ve been having them age in the ice box for almost two weeks, so that they’d be really tender, and it seems to have worked. I was worried that
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Posted: July 6th, 2008 by
Lisa
I started these braised grass-fed beef short ribs using this recipe. But because I’m trying to use locally available ingredients as much as possible, I adapted it. * 4 pounds grass-fed beef short ribs * Coarse salt and black pepper
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Posted: June 28th, 2008 by
Lisa
We eat our own pork chops all the time, and man oh man are they ever tasty. Pastured pork is so different from factory farmed pork that I can hardly call it the same thing at all. I like to cook it on the grill with just a little salt and pepper, nothing else,
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Posted: June 21st, 2008 by
Lisa
I made brunch on Saturday extra special this week, trying to incorporate as much stuff from the farm as I could. Frank’s working down in Cambridge during the week, poor guy, so I try to make his weekends as special as I can. I picked spinach from the garden, got eggs just laid
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