That’s no dyed egg!  It’s the most deep aqua aracauna eggs I have ever seen, provided by one of Ahlam’s awesome chickens.  Pretty natural colored eggs are just one of the pleasures of eating locally! May your eggs be colored and baskets overflowing this year.

One of the pleasures of CSA membership is receiving produce that we would never choose for ourselves.  It forces us to learn how to cook and eat different things.  Somethings we agree we wouldn’t choose to purchase again, but some things have become favorites. My current favorite CSA vegetable is kale.  We will be seeding kale in our garden this weekend because I love it so much.  It is super high in vitamins K, A, [...]

We receive 1 1/2 gallons of un-homogenized whole milk every week from a local farmer.  Every week we skim the cream.  A few nips are used in coffee, but the rest is dedicated to butter. While at first I thought making butter might be a chore, I remain amazed every week at the transformation of liquid to solid.  I feel like the 15 minutes of shaking is a bit of exercise that burns some of [...]

Wow, two posts in one week.  And I’m not even drunk. So as the title says, pork loin sucks.  Modern pigs are bred for loin that has very little fat or other objectionable texture.  The end result is a flavorless chunk of meat that takes alot of work to make it taste good.  This can be done, such as when making canadian bacon.  But usually, people end up with a dry flavorless roast that is [...]

We are busy!  Here’s what we have been doing this week: 1) I went to a fun meet and greet CSA event at Wild Goose last night.  Farmers from 2 Silos, Bridgman, Elizabeth Telling, Toad Hill, and Wayward Seed were there, all with spaces in their veggie/egg/meat CSAs still available. 2) We received a new rain barrel from the Rain Brothers today.  It’s already installed because it was just replacing the broken one.  And after [...]