Sustainable Eats

I thought I would do my first blog giveaway and in the spirit of sustainability it’s not something new.  It’s something in progress that will no doubt be new to you as it is also new to me.Â
My barouni olives ended up filling 3 containers which are taking up precious counter space in my small [...]

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Our chickens have started laying and they are going rock steady.  I had pre-ordered eggs from Dry Creek farm and my dear friend Charlotte brings them with the milk each week so suddenly we have a fridge full of eggs!  And that is never a bad thing in this house.
Because my preschooler goes on pancake [...]

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Tonight I picked up my 100 pounds of roots and tubers from Michael “Skeeter” Pilarski’s organic farm near Tonasket in north-central Washington state.  They are beautiful and I can’t wait to transform them into nourishing fall and winter foods for my family!  Because I got them through a large buy that Sustainable Greenlake orchestrated they [...]

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I promised I’d post this recipe for pumpkin cookies right now while everyone has an abundance of squash still. My kids love these, as did the kids at preschool (and teachers, and neighbors…) And I have no pictures of the cookies themselves which are now long gone…
These cookies are soft inside and slightly chewy outside, [...]

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I wanted to get the photos up from the canning exchange. I’ll come back and post the items another night. It’s time for bed!

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On Friday I got my box of twenty pounds of green olives from Chaffin Family Orchards and set about curing them.

Twenty pounds of olives is a lot it turns out! There are several methods you can use to cure them, some involving lye (commercially cured olives are done in this way), some involving vinegar and [...]

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On Saturday I picked up twenty pounds of salmon frames and heads from Loki.  They are a local family sustainably fishing the waters of Puget Sound and Alaska.  Dylan manages the farmer’s markets and maintains their interesting blog.
At $1 per pound the frames were loaded with meat and perfect for stock.  Dylan supplied me with a [...]

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I’m hoping to just install the camera software on this possessed laptop tomorrow and skip the paint shop pro since Corel is actually more evil, in fact, than anyone had realized. In case you have forgotten my computer went wacky on September 10 and I’m still struggling with the offshore backup service and software companies who [...]

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Do you have a surplus of canned, dried, lacto-fermented or home baked foods? Homemade soaps, lotions, beer, mead or honey from your bees?
Come swap items with like-minded individuals on Sunday, October 25 in Ballard. We’ll swap at local writer and radio personality Joshua McNichol’s house.
Here are the details straight from Joshua:
We’ll trade canned [...]

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The Seattle Farm Co-operative presents…
CONSIDERING CHICKENS?
Learn now while you have the time to get your coop ready for cute chicks in the spring.
How much work is it really to have backyard fresh healthy eggs? Whether to design and build your own coop? What about the poop?
Do you learn best outside of a [...]

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