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Hello from Heathrow
2007-11-03 16:24:00 Hard to believe, but I haven’t had access to a computer in 2 weeks and I almost didn’t notice! I’ve been reading through everyone’s comments and Kim’s fantastic week 2 recap while having a latte here in London. Just a few more minutes to kill before I get on a flight headed home. Thanks to all for keeping ... More About: Heath , Heathrow
Dark Days Challenge - Week #2 Recap
2007-10-27 18:49:00 Greetings, intrepid local food hunters! I?m thrilled to help Laura out by filling in on this week?s Dark Days update while she enjoys Italy. I?m sure she?s eating very well! Writing this update has given me a great excuse to hang out in my PJs on a rainy morning and take a look at all your ... More About: Recap , Week , Challenge
Off to Italy
2007-10-21 01:00:00 I’m off to Italy in about 3 1/2 hours. I’m pretty sure I won’t have any access to my blog while I’m gone, but you never know. If you’re looking for something good to read, check out any of the blogs listed in my blogroll to the right, or any of the participants in the Dark Days ...
Dark Days Challenge - Week #1 Recap
2007-10-20 08:11:00 Wow - 33 of us are participating in this! Not sure what the Dark Days Challenge is? Find out more here. ***** I just realized that I never posted my own personal rules for this challenge, so before I update you on what everyone else is doing, I’ll tell you what our goals are. We have to cook 2 meals per week that are ... More About: Recap , Week
Missing: Small Black Hen, Resembles Crow
2007-10-19 19:01:00 Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. - John Lennon So Wednesday I left the hens loose in the yard when I left for work because it was kind of rainy and dreary and I figured the dogs would rather be inside. Then I worked until 12:30 am. Mike got home late and they had ... More About: Black , Crow , Small , Missing , Missi
Dark til tomorrow
2007-10-17 18:42:00 Yesterday was exhausting and today I’m shooting video at work until midnight. Stay tuned until Thursday night. More About: Dark , Tomorrow , Morrow , Tomo
Why grass fed beef?
2007-10-16 07:16:00 As promised, I’m back to share my thoughts on beef. I decided to post today about beef because I think it’s especially relevant in light of the recent beef recalls by Topps and Cargill. There are some basic health concerns regarding beef products that come from cattle raised in confined-animal feeding operations (CAFOs), commonly called feedlots. I’m ... More About: Beef , Grass
Blog Action Day - thoughts coming
2007-10-15 17:33:00 Today is blog action day - more than 15,000 bloggers writing about one topic - the environment. I’ll be posting later tonight with my thoughts on pastured meat vs. CAFO meat. Stay tuned… ***** Also, we’ve got a few more participant for the Dark Days Challenge (including my mom!) - check out everyone’s blogs though the ... More About: Action , Blog , Thoughts
Oktober Fest 2007
2007-10-14 18:56:00 Last night was the 7th annual Oktober Fest at our house and we had 20 people for it. Not the smallest we’ve ever had, but definitely not the biggest either - a few years ago we had more than 40 people join us. No matter. Every year we provide a keg of local beer, German brats ...
Dark Days Week 1 Update
2007-10-14 02:06:00 We now have 18 participants for the Dark Days challenge - wow, I really didn’t expect that many people to want in - so glad to meet everyone and I can’t wait to see what we all come up with for winter meals. I’ll post a recap here each Saturday with a review of what everyone is ... More About: Update , Week , Dark Days
What part of seasonal don?t they get?
2007-10-13 05:26:00 It seems there’s been a rash of articles lately criticizing the “locavore” movement for missing the boat when it comes to understanding the differences between food miles, carbon footprints and sustainability. Apparently we don’t understand that there’s more to sustainability distance. We don’t get that local farms that use commercial fertilizers and chemicals are worse ... More About: Seasonal , Part
Dark Days Hits Critical Mass
2007-10-12 21:34:00 With 9 of us now participating, I’ve created a new page just for the Dark Days Eat Local Challenge. I’ve also fixed the apparently bad code for the squash button. You can get it on the original Dark Days post or the new page. The new page lists all of the participants, and I’ll link to ... More About: Hits , Mass
Chicken Update - It?s a Hen!
2007-10-12 05:05:00 I think. I’m 99% sure that the little black chick is actually the smallest hen in the flock. Good thing I decided to keep her. Now I could still be wrong, but she’s now clucking and sqawking just like the rest of the girls with nary a practice crow to be heard. She’s officially the ... More About: Chicken , Update
Let them eat apples
2007-10-11 06:06:00 By request of a comment, I’m going to share my two favorite apple dessert recipes. I could in theory live on apples this winter and meet my Dark Days challenge without breaking a sweat - this is of course the apple state. But then that might be cheating, or at least it would be boring. ... More About: Apples
"Pour yourself a drink before you start cooking"
2007-10-10 07:53:00 Cookbooks are my porn. I love cookbooks and have to physically restrain myself from buying every one that takes my fancy. I own a surprisingly small collection for someone that loves them, and for that I can only thank the fact that visiting them at the bookstore gives me a fix that will last at ... More About: Cooking , Drink , Start , Cookin
Dark Days of Winter Eat Local Challenge
2007-10-09 07:23:00 photo courtesy of iStockphoto I’ve been thinking and pondering on the fact that eating local is easy during the spring and summer. The farmer’s markets are in full swing. There are greens and berries, veggies and fruit, potatoes and fish. And I still feel really good about our participation in the One Local Summer Challenge and ... More About: Winter , Dark , Days
Dark Days Challenge - Meal #1
2007-10-09 06:05:00 Hmmm, so before I decided to announce a personal eat local challenge and hold myself accountable, we had our first all local meal of the fall season. The search for ingredients was pretty painless, between the steer in the freezer, my trip to the Edmond’s market and a stop at the grocery store, we had everything ... More About: Dark , Challenge , Days , Dark Days , Meal
It?s raining, it?s pouring
2007-10-08 01:08:00 Of course today, the only day I had to work in the garden before leaving for Italy, it’s raining. And it rained its hardest while I was working in the yard / garden. Oh well - at some point I was so wet that it no longer mattered that it was raining. Luckily I got a ... More About: Raining
Now what do we eat?
2007-10-06 05:36:00 Just kidding. There are a lot of things to eat this time of year, they’re just a bit harder to find because all of the farmer’s markets are closing down for winter. The Snohomish, Everett and Mukilteo markets are closed for the season, and this is the last weekend for the Edmonds market. So I’m ...
Gearing down for winter
2007-10-05 06:23:00 Late fall seems to have come early to the PNW this year. It’s been cold and rainy for more than a week, with today topping out at 50 degrees and the forecast not promising anything better for at least the next five days. We may get lucky and be graced with a bout of indian ... More About: Winter
Wednesday Night London Broil
2007-10-04 05:37:00 One of the best benefits of having a 1/4 steer in the freezer is steak any night you want it. When we ordered our steer we asked the butcher to maximize the number of steaks and minimize the amount of ground beef that we got. So we have a lot of border line steaks in ... More About: London , Night , Wednesday
Chickens on the radio
2007-10-03 07:38:00 This week is crazy for work and at least tonight I don’t have the energy to put a coherent sentence together. I spent my day writing work stuff and I think my abilities for interesting thoughts and correct grammar have been exhausted. So instead, I offer you a link to a podcast that our local NPR ... More About: Radio , Adio
Is it Friday yet?
2007-10-02 05:50:00 It was a great if exhausting weekend. The Sustainable Ballard Festival was fun - not quite as busy as the Seattle Tilth fest, but pretty good considering it was blustery, overcast and raining for much of the day. I met Jim McDermott, as mentioned before, and he said helow to my hens. The girls also ... More About: Local , Friday
Sustainable Ballard Update
2007-09-30 09:23:00 I just want to say that my chickens and I met Representative Jim McDermott today. More on that tomorrow. That is all. More About: Update , Ballard , Allard , Sustainable , Le Bal
Must Read: Omnivore?s Dilemma
2007-09-29 07:38:00 I never liked writing book reports as a kid, and I don’t enjoy them much more now. But the Omni vore ’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan has changed the way I think about eating, and likely changed my eating habits for life. It’s a book that anyone who thinks of themselves as a “foodie”, good cook, green ... More About: Read , Local
A day of local connections
2007-09-28 06:54:00 Today was a day of making local connections. Big and small and in-between. It was a day of connecting with new people and finding new ways to plug-in to local food. Eco Geek talks back Last night I sent an email to Sarah Jackson over at Eco Geek to see if she had any recommendations for restaurants ... More About: Local , Connections , Loca
Eat local Snohomish County
2007-09-27 07:37:00 Every once in a while I have a moment where I’m looking for one thing, stumble across something else, and think “gosh, how come I didn’t know this before???” Turns out that the Everett Herald has a staff blogger focused on going green and with several great posts on eating local. Check out Sarah Jackson’s ... More About: Local , County , Snohomish County , Loca
Things I should have done tonight
2007-09-26 07:21:00 Tonight I should have blanched and frozen the 8 lbs of green beans in my fridge. I should have weeded my flower beds. I should have deadheaded my roses. I should have pruned the bushes growing in front of my window. I should have done a lot of things. But I did none of them. Instead I ... More About: Tonight , Things , Toni , Done
Join Us at Sustainable Ballard
2007-09-25 07:21:00 This will be short as Jake is having a needy night - needing to find a way to put himself on my lap that is. Not sure if it’s the change in the weather, or my longer hours, or Mike being gone. But typing with one hand is not that much fun. Anyhow, if you’re thinking ... More About: Join , Local , Ballard , Allard , Sustainable
Dreaming of corn
More articles from this author:2007-09-24 06:25:00 I love fresh corn on the cob. But I love even more sweet corn in the middle of winter. To make that happen this winter, and bring back that long missed taste from my childhood, I bought 20 ears of corn from Gypsy Row today - 10 white and 10 yellow. Putting up corn in the ... More About: Corn , Local , Dreaming 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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