(Depleted cheese course) What is it about frugal recipe sites on the web – the ones I find are like bad knock-offs of Sandra Lee almost homemade (or whatever) on the Food Network (or is that rip off the other way around?) Sandra Lee’s formative culinary experiences were around subsistence living off of food stamp/WIC...

What are your plans for eating locally this year? We are currently planting our seeds indoors to get a head start on our very short growing season. See more about our garden at our Humble Garden blog. The kids, an important part of my garden, are helping out with every part of this activity. We...

A funny thing happens when you grow your own food (at least part of the year like we have to, not many plants live in the snow) and you watch your own chickens grow from little chicklings .. it is almost imperceptible for me but I have grown to feel much more personally identified with...

(Tomato tart) (Red Calabash, microgreens, cherry tomatoes, tomatillo) Other people had tomatoes WEEKS ago, some MONTHS! We live in an area where the growing season dictates setting one’s tomato plants out on Memorial Day. Its been quite a rollercoaster ride with endless weeks of dark rainy days and then now drought conditions (it turned around...

It seems to be the nature of pumpkins and squash and that sort of plant to grow abundant vines and millions of tall stalks with blossoms bursting forth at the ends. Without looking up some resource on the physiology and morphology of these types of plants, I am guessing that these tall blossoms, that never...

(Recipe is included below) I have had the joy and luxury of being able to put in a garden this year and tend it from germination through to a clamoring jungle of vegetable being. Because it is in raised beds and because it is organic, I managed all my weeds by picking each, one by...

If you love oysters you likely have your own way of describing the experience of eating them. If you don’t like them, you probably have a more vivid description. If you have never eaten a raw oyster but are the sort to give new things a try, a description may do you some good. I...

(Learn about these droplets on the collard green above at Humble Garden) Don’t forget! We are also blogging about our new all organic sustainable grown raised bed garden over at Humble Garden. I will be updating there soon with some photos on our new alternative-style potato beds and also the trellis system I am putting...

Make no mistake, this post is absolutely for the beef lover and especially the connoisseur of the highest quality aged beef. Most of us know what non-aged beef tastes like, somewhat homogeneous or one dimensional in it’s flavor. Some people experience non-aged beef as slightly metallic in flavor (the iron in the hemoglobin?), not a...

(“Wild Boar” by Kaji Aso 1995, Courtesy of the Kaji Aso Studio) (Learn more about Mr. Kaji Aso!) You long time readers might remember that my oldest daughter and I have been learning about the Japanese Tea Ceremony. We have attended a couple of 2 hour long tea ceremonies at the Kaji Aso Studio “House...