Sustainable Eats

I’m so excited to bring you this first guest post by reader Auburn in southern New Hampshire.

Buying Bulk Meat – What you Need to Know
There’s a lot of info online about “freezer meat” or “bulk meat” and many people blog about their experiences buying 1/4 or 1/2 cow, though most focus on the meat itself [...]

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This month Tigress’ challenge for the Can Jam is carrots. I recently harvested a bed of overwintered Purple Dragon and Scarlet Nantaise carrots and Javelin parsnips. Since I have a whole other bed to harvest still it was nice to use up the last of that bed we ate from all fall in [...]

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We eat these quite a bit – in tortillas or on nachos. If you had the forethought to thaw your hamburger this recipe is done in less than twenty minutes, making it a great choice for a busy weeknight dinner. You could also use leftover roast chicken and have it on the table [...]

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Ingredients:
6 jalapeno peppers from Tonnamaker Farms
1 gallon peeled, seeded tomatoes
3 onions
4 bell peppers from Billy’s
3 cloves garlic
1/4 cup canning salt
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 cup Rockridge Orchard apple cider vinegar
Technique:
To peel tomatoes follow these directions then slice them in half and clean out the seeds, or if you use a

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In the days before Garden Burgers, bean burgers were increasingly popular and a nice change of pace from eating a meat burger. Since MorningStar came out with their soy-based burgers, however, bean burgers have all but disappeared.
With some inspiration from Heidi at 101 Cookbooks I was able to come up with a recipe that [...]

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This snack is brilliant on so many fronts – crispy without being fried, loaded with protein and good for you fiber, frugal, simple to make and as easy to customize as potato chips. Kids love them and can even prepare them themselves.
I buy my garbanzo beans from Azure Standard but PCC has recently undertaken [...]

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While my kids still talk about bunny crackers they are just as easily silenced with these homemade cheese crackers. Light and crispy crackers can be tricky to make since they need to be rolled as thinly as possible and the butter tends to make them sticky.
Rather than trying to roll out and cut dough [...]

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One of my favorite, no-fuss winter veggie recipes is as old as the dirt. It’s the Southern greens, slow simmered in ham hock until achingly soft and buttery. If you happen to have any ham stock from boiling your ham bone omit the ham hock.
3 quarts water
1 ham hock
2 pounds winter greens like [...]

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This is a great no-fuss long braising way to get winter vegetables to the table. The only way cabbage gets more comforting than this is steamed and stuffed with ground meat filling then smothered in sweet and sour tomato sauce. And that’s not no-fuss.
Based on a recipe from Molly Steven’s All About Braising: [...]

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I’ve so enjoyed reading everyone’s Tigress Can Jam citrus posts this week that I almost forgot to write my post about it!
Citrus from the store is not local in the Pacific NW but there are some citrus you can grow at home. Unfortunately only one can overwinter in your garden and I just planted [...]

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