(Chick pic via Erika at Redshirt Knitting)
Here are the promised instructions for making chicken stock - another easy project, you just throw things together and mostly ignore it for a few hours, totally my kind of cooking.
Put the carcass and drippings from your roasted chicken in a stock pot - mine holds 12 quarts. If [...]
I went to Science on Tap last night and listened to local scientist Steve Malone talk about early warning for earthquakes - it was fascinating, and fun to hear things explained by a real person. I love having the resources of the Internet right in my home, and being able to learn about almost anything, [...]
In the comments to the roast chicken post, Tom suggested putting duxelles under the skin of the chicken. Duxelles is a kind of paste of mushrooms, chopped finely and sautéed slowly until pretty much all the moisture is gone. You end up with a really wonderful, dense flavor, and it can be used it in [...]
I heard on the news that about 50% of people are cooking at home more than they were a year ago, and that cooking classes are really full - lots of people don’t know how to cook at all. It does take some time and planning, but it’s really not rocket science, and we have [...]
Seattle’s The Stranger has a useful (and funny!) economic survival guide (with illustrations by Robert Ullman) - here’s a link to the section on getting free food and drink, entertainment, etc. There are also sections on money and sanity. And the hysterically profane Kelly O has a bit about how to get a sugar daddy.
Farm Aid has a social networking site called Homegrown.org. It’s a neat site - there are videos about making papercrete; a forum for sharing information about composting, winter gardening, whatever you want to learn about; groups talking about Kombucha and bread, people buying things and selling things, event announcements, and there’s a really nice sense [...]
The Green Festival is this weekend in Seattle - we went last year and really enjoyed it. Lots of alternative energy exhibits, gardening stuff, more free samples of fair trade organic chocolate than you could possibly eat. I’ll be wandering around there on Saturday.
I wish I could have chickens. I think they’re gorgeous, they make some really neat warm broody sounds, and it would seem like free eggs (though of course they wouldn’t really be free). But I am tremendously allergic, and I don’t need the added responsibility, and we have tough city raccoons that regularly raid henhouses. [...]
