Category Archives: Food

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I can’t get this little thing out of my head!

This is the neatest little garden cabin… Best part, I can see applying a lot of these little tricks as additions to our house plan.

13 Ways to Cook Without an Oven

Original Link Covers obvious, less obvious and not obvious ways to cook without an oven. Pretty funny, I know one of the not obvious ways – car engine – since we used that method in the Army a lot of the time.

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Artisan Breads in 5 Minutes a Day

from kk_ct Why Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day? Literally five minutes of effort. Throw the ingredients together, mix, pop the dough into a bucket and then into the fridge. After a couple hours of rising, I have enough for three big loaves. The … Read More

DIY chicken plucking machine

The video is *not* for the squeamish! How to book:

Tomato Problem Solver

DING DING! http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/publications/tomatoproblemsolver/

LunchBox Brigade

For the gardeners out there…

This might be a good way to get rid of extra veg either for trade or sale… http://www.veggietrader.com/index.php

Peanut Butter Recall – Complete List of Recalled Products

Peanut Butter Recall – Complete List of Recalled Peanut Butter Crackers, Ice Cream, and Other Products – thedailygreen.com

What do I read?

I often get asked what type of things do I read. What do I read as far as articles for work, articles for our property, ideas for the home and land, gardening, cooking and etc. It dawned on me that since I use Google Reader … Read More

Ann Cooper: Reinventing the school lunch

As a follow up to other food related posts, check out this video from Ann Cooper. She’s bang on the money as to our kids diets, who controls the food supply and who allows it to be contaminated and destroyed. All the more reason for … Read More

Mark Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat

Quite a few thought provoking talks on TED…

Tainted Foods

I was sitting here this morning thinking about the garden and it hit me – all these folks (farmers, ranchers and other small vegetable producers) have pissed and moaned about the government wanting to implement various tracking systems for livestock and foods on “their dime” … Read More