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The smallest chicken egg I?ve ever seen
2007-12-07 05:35:00 I don’t usually get that excited about eggs anymore. But today we got the first egg ever from Danny our tiny black banty hen. It’s the smallest chicken egg I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t find a ruler, but it was smaller than a standard 35mm roll of film. And about a third of the size ... More About: Chicken
Government supports irradiating beef to prevent E. coli
2007-12-06 06:53:00 The New York Times published an article about the seeming increase in E. coli contamination this year. The government has issued guidelines that are supposed to increase meat safety, but are no more stringent than what Tyson Foods is already doing. If they don’t work the federal government “believes that exposing meat to radiation is a ... More About: Government , Beef , Adia
Government supports irradiating beef to prevent E. coli
2007-12-06 06:53:00 The New York Times published an article about the seeming increase in E. coli contamination this year. The government has issued guidelines that are supposed to increase meat safety, but are no more stringent than what Tyson Foods is already doing. If they don’t work the federal government “believes that exposing meat to radiation is a ... More About: Government , Beef , Adia
Dreaming
2007-12-05 06:32:00 Life is short. Visiting home always gets me, and by side effect Mike, dreaming of moving off of our city lot. Maybe this cabin-style house half way to the country is the one? Only Saturday afternoon will tell. In the spirit of the dream, we had local chicken fried steak, country gray, mashers and salad for dinner tonight. More About: Dreaming
Dreaming
2007-12-05 06:32:00 Life is short. Visiting home always gets me, and by side effect Mike, dreaming of moving off of our city lot. Maybe this cabin-style house half way to the country is the one? Only Saturday afternoon will tell. In the spirit of the dream, we had local chicken fried steak, country gray, mashers and salad for dinner tonight. More About: Dreaming
Me and Ewe, Ewe and Me
2007-12-04 06:44:00 My grandmother is holding her own and I’m back home. Thank you again for all of your well wishes, kind thoughts and prayers. I’ll let you know when anything changes. And a round of applause for Anita for her recap post yesterday. She and Kim have both been a great help on keeping this going when ...
Me and Ewe, Ewe and Me
2007-12-04 06:44:00 My grandmother is holding her own and I’m back home. Thank you again for all of your well wishes, kind thoughts and prayers. I’ll let you know when anything changes. And a round of applause for Anita for her recap post yesterday. She and Kim have both been a great help on keeping this going when ...
Dark Days Challenge, Week 7 recap
2007-12-03 03:08:00 Whew, I have a new appreciation for what Laura does every week! Please let me know in the comments if I overlooked your Week 7 post. And thanks for your patience. (Note: Some Dark Days participants have added Week 8 posts since I started recapping; This roundup includes “Dark Days Week 7″ posts published 11/25 to ... More About: Recap , Challenge
Dark Days Challenge, Week 7 recap
2007-12-03 03:08:00 Whew, I have a new appreciation for what Laura does every week! Please let me know in the comments if I overlooked your Week 7 post. And thanks for your patience. (Note: Some Dark Days participants have added Week 8 posts since I started recapping; This roundup includes “Dark Days Week 7″ posts published 11/25 to ... More About: Recap , Challenge
Just checking in
2007-12-02 00:24:00 My grandmother came home to her house yesterday afternoon. She currently has 24-hour hospice care to ensure that she’s safe and comfortable. Since she has a DNR order, there is no real nursing going on, just care. It’s not clear what’s happening. After going steadily downhill both physically and mentally while in the hospital she seemed ...
Mystery eggs
2007-11-29 06:34:00 There are a couple side effects of having a heat lamp with a red bulb in the girls’ roost box for warmth. 1. They’re party girls - up until all hours of the night 2. When they get really brave they even venture out into the run in the strange reddish light 3. We’re starting to get eggs ... More About: Eggs , Mystery
Thanks to all
2007-11-28 02:44:00 for your kind thoughts and good wishes. She’s doing much better, as far as these things go. She’s talking and starting to ask questions about where she is and what happened. She’s even hungry which is apparently a very good sign. My mom, aunts and uncles are making arrangements to move her home with 24 ... More About: Hank
Dark Days Challenge - Week #6 Recap
2007-11-25 20:44:00 I hope that everyone had a great holiday! As I mentioned, we had a delicious dinner and have really enjoyed the long weekend. We also had many local breakfasts, lunches and dinners this week that I won’t bore you with. And of course, we finally opened our first jars of dill pickles - mmmm mmmm ... More About: Dark , Recap , Week , Challenge , Days
Pucker Face
2007-11-25 15:00:00 Remember the dill pickles I made back in September? Well, we finally cracked the first jars open this past week. And they’re just as good as I remember from my childhood. My whole life, this is what pickles are supposed to taste like. Crisp and clean with a rich flavor and so sour that they ... More About: Face
Turkey Dinner: Leggy vs the Traveler
2007-11-25 08:22:00 I won’t bore you with a long list of where our ingredients came from or how far they traveled. But suffice it to say that we had a mostly local, very delicious Thanksgiving dinner. Things that weren’t local that made it to the table? Black olives, organic chicken broth, dried sour cherries, sugar, salt, pepper, ... More About: Turkey , Dinner , Leggy , Turk
Odds and Ends
2007-11-24 05:48:00 I’ve got a lot to say about our local Thanksgiving, I just want to think on it a bit before saying it. In the meantime, can you tell what’s wrong with this picture? Do you see it? That missing piece of pipe is because I once again forgot that I’ve got an industrial strength garbage disposal combined with a mix ... More About: Odds , Ends
Thankful
2007-11-22 21:19:00 Last night and today have seen a lot of activity in our small kitchen. As bread dough has gone from sloppy to slowly rising. Cherries and apples have become divine smelling pies. Cranberries and dried sour cherries became delicious condiment. And local arugula and spinach are becoming a succulent salad. As I’ve spent my evening and ... More About: Hank
And the countdown begins?
2007-11-21 06:42:00 until we have turkey, two of them actually. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, and has been since I was a little kid. I’ve been in charge of the pies for my family since I finished my first home-ec class in 7th grade. And I’ve been told that I make really good pies. The irony of course ... More About: Countdown
Yeah, what she said
2007-11-21 01:05:00 I knew there was a reason other than her scrumptious looking meals that I like Kim. It’s because of days like today when she says what I tried to say a couple months ago. But so much better. More About: Yeah
Dark Days Challenge - Week #5 Recap
2007-11-20 07:28:00 I’m a bad blogger. Or at least I played one this past week. I cooked a number of local meals, including an informal Sunday dinner for friends, but wrote about none of them. On Sunday we had meatloaf, mashers, broccoli and salad - all of it made from local ingredients. I used my favorite meatloaf ... More About: Dark , Recap , Week , Challenge , Days
Dark Days Challenge - Week #5 Recap
2007-11-19 17:23:00 Is coming soon. It was a busy weekend. The recap is about 75% finished and I should have it up later tonight. Sorry for the delay. More About: Dark , Recap , Week , Challenge , Days
Big business 1, Consumers 0
2007-11-15 23:34:00 There are times that I’m embarrassed to be an American. Times when it is driven home to me just how far removed from it’s constituents our government has become. Times when I really feel strongly that countries with stricter agricultural guidelines than ours are not only smarter, they’re fundamentally safer. Today is one of those times: PA to ban ... More About: Business , Big Business , Consumers , Sine
The last gasps of fall
2007-11-14 07:50:00 The last of the cherry leaves are still holding on, but the rest of the trees around here are pretty much gone. This week it has struck me that the dark days of winter really are upon us. It’s barely light when I leave for work and it’s dark well before I leave the office. I notice ... More About: Fall , The Last
Italy 2007 - Milano
2007-11-13 05:18:00 Here we are, finally, the first installment of the Italy 2007 vacation extravaganza… The slideshow below shows some of our best photos from Milan , the complete set can be viewed at Flickr. Milan was really my second stop of the trip as I spent 2 days in London for work before I got there. I’ll write a ... More About: Milano , Duomo
Inside the blogger?s mind: 10 questions
2007-11-13 01:57:00 I was watching Inside the Actor ’s Studio the other day - I lurve that show - and I realized that James Lipton’s closing would make a great blog topic. And yes, I know that the questions really came from Bernard Pivot (thank you wikipedia). There are some great writers, thinkers, eaters and farmers blogging out ... More About: Blogger , Questions , Mind
Dark Days Challenge - Week #4 Recap
2007-11-12 01:09:00 This week was a slow return to normalcy for me. I’d forgotten just how much worse jet lag is coming back West than it is going East. It’s only since yesterday that I finally feel like I’m back in the land of the living. We ate wildly local at the beginning of the week, enjoying chicken ... More About: Dark , Recap , Week , Challenge , Days
Gobble Gobble: We?ve got a local turkey!
2007-11-10 05:31:00 Well wonders never cease. The woman that I was originally supposed to get some chickens from, and that mysteriously disappeared leaving me to find different cluckers, finally resurfaced. And did so with two 25 lb. local free range turkeys to boot! Of course we’ve already ordered a California free range bird and it’s too late to ... More About: Turkey , Local , Loca , Turk
Dark Days Week #4: Meals 1, 2, 3
2007-11-08 06:01:00 Still no progress on the Italy recap front - I finally decided to go ahead and upgrade my Flikr account and figured out how to add a slide show here, but that’s as far as I’ve gotten. I’m targeting Saturday as the day to deal with photos. So look for my recap of Milan and ... More About: Dark , Week , Days , Meals , Dark Days
Local grains
2007-11-06 21:51:00 I know, I know. You all want me to tell you all about Italy. But between the jet lag and the need to return to real life I haven’t even had time to look at the photos, much less start to write about the experience. And tonight I’m off to a going away party for ... More About: Local , Grains , Loca
Dark Days Challenge - Week #3 Recap
More articles from this author:2007-11-05 06:13:00 I’m in the middle of downloading the approximately 1400 photos that I took in Italy - thank goodness for digital, I can’t imagine what it would cost me to process that much 35mm film… I don’t have a specific meal to report, but suffice it to say that we ate some of the most fabulous ... More About: Dark , Recap , Week , Challenge , Days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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