The Radical Homemaker

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Meatloaf

We serve this meatloaf in our cafe, and it’s unbelievably popular.  The secret ingredient?  MEAT.   1 whole onion, diced and sautéed ’til clear 1 pound ground beef 1 pound unseasoned ground pork (you can use a second pound of ground beef if you can’t find this) 1/2 cup potato flour 1 egg 1 tsp […]

My Grandmother’s Eggnog

This recipe comes from Long Way on a Little: An earth lover’s companion for enjoying meat, pinching pennies and living deliciously. My grandmother passed away when I was sixteen, but to this day our entire family considers Christmas incomplete without a few gallons of her eggnog. For years I dutifully adhered to her method of standing […]

BBQ Pork, without the BBQ

Wow!  It still feels like summer here in the Northeast.  Thinking of all you who might still be craving some barbecue while dealing with fall school schedules, I decided to re-post this much-loved favorite from a few years back.  Enjoy! I have desires.  I have opinions.  I have needs.  And when it comes to summer, […]

Onion Soup

Remember that braised lamb shank recipe I shared last week?  If you’ve got some of it left in the fridge, here’s the perfect way to use the leftovers.  If you don’t feel like you have enough leftover onions to make this, slice up what you need in the morning, then line your slow cooker with […]

Braised Shanks

In light of the discussion sparked by my image choice for last week’s piece, Must we eat the children? (you should’ve seen my inbox…), I couldn’t help but offer up a slow cooker shank recipe this week ;-).  Our family recommends lamb shanks. And no. I’m not offering up any recipes for pickled feet. 2 tablespoons fine […]

Pork Shoulder in the Slow Cooker (how easy can it get?)

All right, time to start back in with fall cooking.  This is one of my favorite go-tos lately.  It takes less than 5 minutes to prepare, requires no searing (unlike most slow cooker meat recipes) and yields delicious, browned, caramelized, fall-apart meat, with a splash of rich juice to pour over the top. The secret? […]

Cracklings in Sour Cream Dip

I don’t have much interest in football, but I’m seriously keen on pig skin, which is surprisingly hard to get.  That’s because butchers rarely use the old fashioned processing method of scalding a pig to remove the hairs and make the skin a viable product.  Most butchers today simply cut the skin away.  But if […]

Headcheese

I know.  You’re super-sad that you couldn’t make it out to the cafe this past weekend to enjoy our headcheese special.  But…what luck!  Your neighbors just happened to have a spare pig head  they’d like to give to you!  Well, now you can make your own… Okay, this is a big project. But it isn’t […]

How to make a berry pie

Strawberries in the fields, raspberries in the yard, blueberries in the garden, blackberries along the road, cherries on the trees…   It’s pie time.  Last week, I shared with you my no-fail gluten-free pie crust.  This week, let’s talk pie.  When it comes to summer pie, there is really one basic recipe that I follow. […]