On the Difficulty of Finding Pastured Animal Products

March 12, 2013

...or a higher standard from this non-profit rating organization–specifically eggs and meat from a farm that looks like the one in the picture above. I’m hugely disappointed. And I wish I could be more specific but I don’t want to end up in a lawsuit. Let’s just say that at this point I’m not aware of any animal welfare rating service that I consider adequate. Let’s not even talk about the joke that is the USDA. I do think there is a entrepreneurial...

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Book Review: An Everlasting Meal

Mrs. Homegrown

March 8, 2013

Food, Reviews

6 Comments

...couldn’t find anything terrible after a couple of minutes of flipping the pages. So either I am overly fussy, or (and this is what I suspect) the effect of the prose is cumulative. It’s not annoying in small doses, but when you’re reading chapter after chapter… It’s like adding too much salt to soup. By her own advice, an over-salted soup can be repaired by dropping in a plain potato. A few prosy potatoes would have helped this book, too. Oh, but...

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Beans 101 (Return of Bean Friday!)

Mrs. Homegrown

March 1, 2013

Bean Fest, Food, How-to

21 Comments

...ys. Or wrap the rice and beans in flour tortillas and you’ve got burritos. Eggs are good on top of beans. We tend to forget this, outside of huevos rancheros. If you like runny yolks, poach an egg and put it on top of a bowl of hot beans and let that yolk mix with the bean broth. A fried egg with a more solid yolk is good, too. Or even chopped hard-boiled egg. Add cooked beans to soup. Maybe to a ready-made soup, to beef it up. Or maybe you’re coo...

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Recipe for the World’s Best Whole Wheat Pancake

Mr. Homegrown

January 8, 2014

Bread, Fermentation, Food

22 Comments

...ms starter 2 tablespoons maple syrup 3 tablespoons safflower or corn oil 2 eggs 1/2 teaspoon sea salt 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder The night before making these pancakes I take a tablespoon of mature starter and add it to 100 grams of freshly milled Sonora wheat flour and 110 grams of water. This mixture will be the 200 grams of starter you’ll use in the recipe. The next day mix all the ingredients together, fry them up in a p...

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Browned Butter Peanut Butter Cookies

Mr. Homegrown

November 9, 2020

Food, Recipes

9 Comments

...butter is browned and not burnt. 3. Mix the sugars, salt, vanilla extract, eggs and peanut butter in a bowl. Allow the browned butter to cool for a few minutes and add to the mix. 4. Mix in the flour. Do not over mix or you’ll develop the gluten and end up with a disagreeably chewy cookie. 5. Form the dough into balls, spread them out on a baking sheet and compress with a fork. Sprinkle some sugar and sea salt on top of the cookies. 6. Here’s the...

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