The farmer’s market season is gearing up! Get out there and eat some delicious local foods! Hounds in the Kitchen Events Kids Cook requires pre-registration for a five week session beginning May 6. Currently the class is full but you may fill out the Registration Form for your 3 – 6 year old to...
Read more →Kentucky Derby coming up… Forest of mint growing already in the herb bed… A long day filled with appointments… Bottle of Eagle Rare bourbon in the cabinet… This afternoon, all signs pointed to a Mint Julep. Here’s how I make them: Fill a low ball glass with a quarter cup or more fresh cleaned...
Read more →May 10 begins the Bike to Work Challenge for 2010. The premise is simple – log your rides to and from work for 10 days. The team with the best percentage of rides wins pride and prizes. You don’t work traditionally? Neither do I! I created the Columbus Catch-Alls for those of us who...
Read more →A friend asked on twitter recently if I had anything written about compost. I have not and there’s a good reason why: I am a lazy composter. It’s not that I don’t love composting; I do. I just don’t measure temperature or output or anything like others who have composting down to a science....
Read more →Last week I shared our method for slaughtering a pig by hand. Previously we shared why we wanted to slaughter. Today’s final post is reflective of the whole experience. Work to Be Done Rachel: Once Red was dead, we all worked quickly to process her body. There was no spoken communication, but there was...
Read more →Do you ever play restaurant with your kids? It’s a fantastic way to enjoy an evening together and gently guide their experiences about food, service, and community. I wrote about our most recent restaurant at home on Ohio Moms Blog. This week’s menu: Monday – macaroni and cheese, spinach salad Tuesday – roasted chicken,...
Read more →I have mixed feelings about Earth Day, the 40th anniversary of which is celebrated today. People celebrating and being educated once a year is great, no doubt. In some ways (littering comes to mind), Earth Day education has inspired big changes. But the idea that people spend one day ‘going green’ to ‘save the...
Read more →Wow! How do I follow up my most viewed, most commented, most retweeted post?! I am so appreciative of the interest in real food*. I am glad to be in community with people who support and practice choosing sustainable foodstuffs. Slaughtering your own animals is not practical for most people, not even us, on...
Read more →Meet Red. She’s the pig we slaughtered last Saturday with the able assistance of another meat lover, JR, and Red’s owner, Denise of 2Silos farm. Earlier I published why we wanted to slaughter a pig. What follows is a factual account of how we humanely harvested this meat animal. It was hard manual labor...
Read more →We made it through the week without Alex! Even if I did have horrible allergies… Do you check the weather like I do when meal planning? I like to cook warm foods when it’s cold and make use of the grill when warm weather is forecast. Monday: Lil – chicken and pasta, Rachel and...
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