by Paige Esther Postma
I am having trouble keeping up with this blog. Reasons for starting the blog: Encourage Food Literacy in tandem with healthy eating Dispel the myth that healthy eating is expensive Justify the "organic farming/sustainability" movement as a one that is for all income levels. Issues I have run into when talking about these 3 …
We've talked about this before, and so have all bloggers, cooks, chefs and grandmothers. Don't throw out the bones! I always followed these instructions when cooking a whole bird but I've started to get pretty extreme about it lately. Last night we had wings for dinner. (I have a lot of random cuts of meat …
In a book called the Art of Fermentation by Sandor Katz I remember him painting this picture of someone dumpster diving for a head of cabbage, stealing a couple packets of salt from a fast food restaurant and shoving it all into a salvaged pickle jar. The result being a sauerkraut full of rich bacteria …
It's New Years Day-2019 and all I want to do is enjoy the quiet after the holiday chaos. I had left over pie pastry in the fridge and frozen apples in the freezer. With the house to myself, I've decided to make pie. It's currently in the oven baking away, with flour still smattered all …
Cobb Salad. A classic summer dish that my mother would always break out as soon as she deemed it "too hot to cook." She would throw a variety of toppings on a table, a big bowl of greens and voila, the most delicious meal. A traditional Cobb Salad usually consists of some sort of bacon …
I was once told that Noma, a 2 Michelin Star restaurant, had a dish where they used the entire pumpkin for one meal. You ate everything. Nothing happened to you. It tasted great. No one died. WHAT A NOVELTY. Compost has become the go to method or reducing landfill and turning food waste back into …
I've written three different drafts of this post. It all started when I stumbled into a hole filled with blogs about the elite nature of of #zerowaste lifestyles. Comments about guilt and privilege were popping up everywhere. Bloggers were apologizing for saying that it was "easy" when they were living an urban able-bodied white person …
I knew someone who used to give one of their organic farmer friends a hard time, saying, “you know, it’s not a new idea.” While this was always amusing to witness, it was also very poignant. We have lost so much knowledge from our past. All of these new trendy foods and diets are most …
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I'm sure every food blogger will be writing some sort of post around this time of year inspired by leftovers, but how could you not? There is so much food to be saved from the dark corners of our refrigerators. Luckily, baked beans are an all year delight that can be made with or without …
