“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 [...]
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 I am Rachel Tayse, keeper of the Hounds in the Kitchen. In my Columbus Ohio urban homestead, I garden, cook, and eat local sustainable foods. Read About the Hounds for more about the characters in my kitchen. I hope to see you soon at an Event.
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Archive for the ‘CSAs’ CategoryI visited the Columbus Winter Farmer’s Market this past Saturday January 16, 2010 for the first time. It is held at First Unitarian Universalist Church in Clintonville. The market is small but well attended by vendors and consumers. Tables in the center allowed patrons to enjoy their ready to eat purchases, including coffee from Crimson Cup. I [...] the little hound wants you to try a CSA! The first real snow is finally on the ground here in central Ohio. It might be hard to think about summer produce but that’s just what small farmers are doing. Several farmers offering Community Support Agriculture (CSA) shares already have their 2010 signups available. At least one [...] A few things that might interest readers: PBS stations are showing a program based on the book The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan. I highly recommend reading Botany of Desire and am excited to watch the show. Watch a preview here. Columbus residents can view Botany of Desire on [...] little hound sniffing a local (backyard) pepper Part of the purpose of Hounds in the Kitchen is to advocate for local foods and local eating. ‘Local‘ is subjective and prone to green-washing as are so many other terms. With the advent of Local Foods Week coming soon (see below), now is a good time to [...] After you have made tomato sandwiches, salads, stews, and more, it is tempting to just toss the rest of you CSA or home garden tomato harvest in the compost heap. Preserving tomatos is not that hard and you will thank yourself in the fall for putting up farm fresh goodness. Here are a few ideas [...] One of the more difficult parts of most tomato sauce recipes is blanching the tomatos. Removing the skin has to be done in small batches and then you are left with slippery juicy innards to chop. Not to mention that one more pot of boiling water on the stove means more chances to burn oneself. Sometimes [...] When we first became members of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), we received plenty of produce that we had never encountered before. CSA managers are getting better about identifying everything in the share, but in the very beginning, we were given some veggies we couldn’t even name! Here’s my quickie guide for using your CSA share [...] 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 [...]  |
 
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