Sustainable Eats

Jared here. After Annette took the shot of tonight’s dinner she suggested that I write a guest post on how I created the Loki canned salmon patties.
The setup for tonight’s dinner is classic: I’m late coming home from work and Annette’s doing chores. Really she was making bubbles by pouring vinegar over baking [...]

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I wanted to let you Seattle-ites know that we are getting closer to the summer produce buy! I’m working with Skeeter (the farmer) on timing the harvest and coordinating delivery of some much needed tomatoes and other summer and winter fruits to this side of the mountain.
Why buy from Eastern Washington? Because we can [...]

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I asked my friend Joshua, master composter, writer, stained glass artist, father, gardener extraordinaire, architect and builder of beautiful garden structures just how he gets his tomatoes to resemble HERKIN’ TREES.
You see, earlier in the season when we both had starts of similar size and his were actually even yellower than mine, we [...]

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Sorry the picture is a little blurry but I was cross-eyed-tired. I’ve been busy this week! I’m milking goats for a friend on vacation, trying to keep up with the bean harvest and apricots are finally ripe.
There is but one local fruit that I don’t have growing in my yard and it’s apricots.  [...]

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I’ve recently dipped my toes into rabbit as a means of keeping backyard meat but decided to wait a bit.  It’s true you can buy rabbit from Bill the Butcher but what a sham that turned out to be. The Bill the Butcher expose only strengthened my resolve even further to know the person raising [...]

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Pizza is one of those compromise foods we make as a family. I’m pretty picky about it. I like it in Rome and Florence and liked it from the now-defunct Fremont Trattoria. I enjoy Serious Pie but it’s just not the same. Other than that you can pretty much keep your [...]

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I know this is late notice but I just had the idea of doing a rhubarb roundup. Once I figure out where the rhubarb can jam roundup is I’ll link that in since there will be a bazillion rhubarb recipes there but I want to include more than just canning recipes. In fact [...]

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Thanks to Meg at Grow and Resist fame I didn’t miss the can jam this month (whew!) Here’s to facebook. If only it had been around when I was in college so friends could have reminded me of deadlines…
This month’s Can Jam is either rhubarb or asparagus. I plan to do both [...]

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I’ve been meaning to post this recipe for a year now so I figured I’d better get on it while rhubarb is once again in season.  Back in the day my husband would speak longingly about his favorite childhood pie, a rhubarb custard pie.  I’ve always been a rhubarb purist.  A nice rhubarb cobbler with [...]

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I’ve told you all before how mad I am for Loki frozen salmon fillets – they are a quick rainy day chowder, glazed barbecued mainstay or pickled snack. I’ve been itching to make Gravlox with them too.
Flushed with my sausage stuffing pepperoni success which was eaten by the Big Bad Wolf, I decided to try [...]

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