June 1st, 2012 | Dairy, Gluten Free, Grain-Free, Low Carb, Recipes, Sweets, Vegetarian, compote, D.I.Y., Dairy, entertaining, family, gardening, rhubarb
The rhubarb theme continues in my mother’s garden. My niece was visiting from LA and the family decided to celebrate her “Almost 1” birthday since she wouldn’t be in town when she actually turned one. It was the perfect opportunity to use up some of my mom’s rhubarb and introduce my wee niece to a new taste!
But first I needed rhubarb inspiration. Epicurious is so helpful for this. They had a ton of rhubarb recipes – rhubarb upside down cake, rhubarb pie, rhubarb cheesecake, the list went on… For once though I didn’t want to spend hours prepping and/or making my dessert. I wanted simple and delicious. Rhubarb fool was the obvious choice.
May 28th, 2012
Often the first vegetable to pop up in the spring, rhubarb is one of my favorites. While I love it in pie my new favorite way of using rhubarb is making compote. Compote is french for "mixture" and is basically just a stewed fruit dish. Rhubarb makes a beautiful compote. Compote is also ...
December 11th, 2011
Check out that amazingly fat creamline on local milk from our community dairy. With all the rain we have had this year the grass is growing fast and luscious and our cows are just lovin' it. Is this the big secret Big Dairy is working so hard to keep under wraps? Informed consumers are harder to ...
November 22nd, 2011
Vancouver rallies for food freedom November 23rd 2011 in conjunction with all the other right to food choice rallies across the country. These food freedom rallies are in response to the irrational and heavy handed pressure on small-scale local organic food clubs and communities across North America ...
November 17th, 2011
There are various other definitions of sacrament, I like this one because it makes me think of the gut-friendly micro-organisms that grow in milk--uniquely active indeed. This is a post I have been putting off writing and I understand why. I am not sure if I can quite capture what I want to say here ...
September 13th, 2011
I was digging through my old papers trying to find an old chart of my various ancestors the other day...I didn't find it, but I did find an old letter from Thanksgiving 1995 from our father, he's a linguist so he loves getting into all kinds of ways of looking at language--even spell check programs. ...
August 2nd, 2011
The numbers have been crunched and show conclusively that the risk of drinking raw milk is miniscule compared to the risk of eating contaminated luncheon meat and other foods. These days everyone knows that eating food from factory farmed large-scale agribusiness is dangerous and that you are better ...
June 22nd, 2011
Since I just recently posted my review of the book Mad Sheep whose author is featured in this film, I figured you guys would appreciate this review of Farmageddon: The Unseen War on American Family Farms by Jessica Claire Haney of Crunchy-Chewy Mama. Please click here for the full article. Below I h ...
May 30th, 2011
Chelsea Green Publishing Company has some of the most cutting edge books out there on the various topics of health, agriculture, DIY, cooking, gardening...you name it. I have been meaning to review this one, which is the story of a small sheep farming family in Vermont in the early 2000s. Really a s ...
March 13th, 2011
From the Winter edition of Wise Traditions the Journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation. Pig Business is a real money maker for industrial ag corporations. Please read the whole article here. Article is by Sir Julian Rose. Poland is a country that is accustomed to fighting rearguard actions to f ...
