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Sausage and Peppers…made easy!

May 11, 2015

Tomorrow we have to crank out 450 pounds of sausage to be ready for our market season. With so much work to do, I need a lunch that offers stamina, but that can take care of cooking itself. Enter sausage and peppers, à la my great friend, Heather Guyer. She likes to make this when […]

Book Deadline!

April 27, 2015

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 […]

Can we truly honor the earth on Earth Day?

April 21, 2015

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

April 20, 2015

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?

April 14, 2015

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 […]