Andy Schneider, the Chicken Whisperer (ha!), has a series of podcasts on Blog Talk Radio - today’s is about backyard poultry laws.
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Homemade enchiladas
We love enchiladas and you can make a batch with about 10 minutes of labor time - really fast food! It’s one of the few dishes that I’ll use prepared sauce in, even though the sauce is the most expensive part; we really like Hatch brand. I need to look around and find a good [...]
Pickled radishes
I’m a big fan of pickled things - cucumber pickles, sure, but also the stranger stuff like beets and herring. Just Bento recently blogged about “instant” pickled radishes - she used a combination of vinegar/salt/sweet that sounded really interesting with the heat of the radish, and it sounded so good I needed to try it. [...]
Making Chili
We’ve still had some pretty cool weather here in Seattle - it’s still a bit too cold to plant tender veggies in the garden, but the trees are leafing out and everything looks very lush and green. (The picture above is of one of my tomato plants, spending its fourth night outside - it’s rainy [...]
Posted in Food and cooking, Garden Also tagged cooking, dinner, food, freezing stuff, Garden, growing 3 Comments
How Much Do Eggs Cost?
(My friend Erika is guest blogging today. She’s a freelance writer living near Deception Pass in Washington State. She writes about knitting, chickens, and knitting for chickens at her blog, Redshirt Knitting.)
I recently bought into the city chicken craze and purchased four baby chicks. Out of curiosity last weekend, I did some online research [...]
Posted in Cheap thrills, DIY, Food and cooking Also tagged chickens, food, growing, peeps 23 Comments
Micro-jam
We had part of a container of strawberries that I knew we weren’t going to eat before they went bad, so I made a tiny batch of jam. It’s really easy, and homemade jam is WAY better than storebought. And seriously, do not be intimidated by the jam-making process - you don’t have to make [...]
Bento on the Internet
You don’t have to get as fancy as Anna the Red to do bentos, they can be really simple (though I’ve noticed a lot of bento makers tend to really go over the top). And they can be really frugal - there’s a lot of planning ahead, and using leftovers. Plus bento boxes are charming. [...]
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Making chicken stock
(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 [...]
Duxelles
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 [...]
Posted in Food and cooking, Garden Also tagged cooking, food, freezing stuff, Garden, mushrooms 1 Comment
Making roast chicken
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 [...]