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Archive for the ‘Cooking’ Category

What's Left in the Larder

Today we ate our last winter squash harvested over six months ago.  It was bitter and I’m sad about that.

I wondered exactly what is left in our larder.  Here’s the count as of March 9, 2010:

8.5 quarts applesauce

10 half pints tomato paste

3 quarts tomato sauce

12 quarts whole tomatoes

2 half pints ketchup

3 quarts barbeque sauce

3 pints [...]

Local Food & Gardening Events - March 2010

The snow is melting and spring is around the corner.  Columbus has an abundance of interesting local food and gardening events again this month.  Enjoy!

Hounds in the Kitchen events

Kids Cook – Thursdays from 11:15am-12pm at Sprout Soup.  This month we’ll be going bananas on the 4th, serving up maple syrup on the 11th, and cooking [...]

Cast Iron Rocks

We LOVE cast iron cookware.  We own two skillets, one dutch oven, and one griddle.  Here are the top ten reasons that cast iron rocks:

1) It lasts forever.  Seriously.  The cast iron skillet pictured above is from my great grandmother.  She died four years ago and probably owned this skillet for decades before then.

2) Non [...]

Joel Salatin: Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal

“We live in an amazing country where it’s perfectly legal to feed your kids twinkies, hoho cakes, and mountain dew, but raw milk, that’s dangerous.”  So began Joel Salatin’s Saturday keynote address to the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association annual conference on February 13, 2010.  I attended the talk.  The writing below is my [...]

The Best Beans and Rice Ever

Tuesday night I cooked the best beans and rice ever.

I’m sure it’s the best because I grew the beans, picked the beans, dried the beans, and finally cooked them.  Do you know how many fresh beans it takes to make a cup of dried beans? Now I do.

I didn’t use a recipe (I rarely do) [...]

Honey Blondies

Tomorrow’s Kids Cook class is all about honey.  I searched for a dish that featured honey and would be appropriate for us to make and package as a Valentine gift.  Enter honey blondies.

Really a short dense cake, these treats are sweetened by honey alone.  They are delicious and super easy to make.  I baked them [...]

Tips to Save Time Cooking

I recently revealed that on a fairly average week, we spend a little less than 13 hours cooking.  That’s a lot for some families, but there are ways to spend your time in the kitchen efficiently and still prepare whole food driven meals.  Here are some tips:

Prepare or pack lunch the night before, ideally as [...]

Time in the Kitchen

We aim to make most things from scratch.  To that end, we spend plenty of time cooking.  Because we love to eat, cooking does not feel like a chore.  Still, I was curious exactly how much time we spend in the kitchen.

Like last year’s gardening time study, I recorded every person hour in the kitchen [...]

Meal Plan - January 25, 2010

Before we get to the goodies of this week’s plan, I wanted to feature a few things that help us follow our plan: the whiteboard and refrigerator shopping list.

I write out the meals on the whiteboard so those who aren’t paying attention when we meal plan and don’t keep up with their RSS feed (ahem, [...]

How to Store Bulk Flour

I recently organized a group buy for flour.  On Wednesday I unloaded a half a ton of flour for distribution to bakers in Columbus!

The flour came to us in double walled paper bags holding fifty pounds of flour each.  Fifty pounds of flour is a lot for even the most prolific home bakers so proper [...]

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