Thanks to everyone who helped make The Grassfed Gourmet the best selling sustainable meat cookbook in the country. After 10 years, it is time to release a new edition…but I have to finish the updates first! In order to keep to the production schedule, I need to put the blog on hold and make a push for […]
Archives for April 2015
Can we truly honor the earth on Earth Day?
As a radical homemaker, I want to live within the bounds of our ecosystem. But to do so, I’ve had to defy impossible odds, break the law, and quite possibly deny my children something that has been considered a fundamental entitlement in this country. This blog post is drawn from a talk I delivered in […]
Caramelized Onions, Part 4: Spiced Chuck Steak with Caramelized Onions
Wow! I actually ran out of onions this week! But here’s one last recipe for those of you who still have a few left in the larder, borrowed from Long Way on a Little, which, of course, can be found for sale on this page. The ebook version can be found here. The chuck steak, […]
Why is everybody looking for a handout?
I got angry when my sister observed that “everybody is looking for a handout”…until I realized how many times I’d said it myself. “Would you prefer to ride a dragon, or a winged tiger?” Ula is skipping between Saoirse and me as we head up the road for a morning walk. “I have this one […]
Caramelized Onions, Part 3: Ground Lamb with Caramelized Onions and Kale
To continue with this celebration of one of the last vegetables I have left in my root cellar this time of year (see my earlier posts talking about caramelized onions in soup, and using them to slow cook pork), here’s yet another way to use this glorious ingredient to stretch a pound of grassfed ground […]
How I earned my pets’ respect
I thought I just needed to take care of the animals, like I take care of everything else. Then I learned the importance of sitting still. I am sitting in my office, the room lit only by firelight. Dusky, my Poodle-Yorkie-Mongrel, is sprawled across my lap. Ramona, my cat, mews her greeting and hops up […]
Caramelized Onions, Part 2: Using the slow cooker
While on my journey to explore the wonders of caramelized onions, a reader commented to me on Facebook that she doesn’t go to all the trouble of sipping wine while slowly melting down onions on her stovetop (really? I thought the wine was worth the trouble.). In any event, she told me that she does them […]