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Thank you to all who contributed to last week’s seasonal recipe round-up featuring spinach. I selected three recipes to highlight — homemade sausages (mmmm), spanakopitta, and baked eggs. Mmm, mmm, mmm. You can continue to add your spinach recipes to last week’s round-up. Join us next Friday, the 25th, for a round-up featuring… rhubarb!
Welcome to Simple Lives Thursday, a blog hop dedicated to simple living. “Consume less, produce more. ” So many topics fit: Gardening, raising animals, cooking from scratch, real food, natural cleaners, sewing, recycling, thrifting, a mindset of simplicity, saving a buck… Come on in, check out the featured posts from last week’s submissions, visit posts shared this week, or add your own post to this blog hop.
We’re heading down home… to your farms! Urban, suburban, or rural — whatever you’re growing and doing, we want to see it. Today’s featured farm is Serenity Gulch Farm run by Sherri and Keith Cripe (plus their children Jamie and Katie). They’ve been homesteading off and on for six years in Indiana. Come on in to hear about their farm and go on a lovely photo tour.
We’re heading down home… to your farms! Urban, suburban, or rural — whatever you’re growing and doing, we want to see it. Homesteaders everywhere, send in pictures of your farms and homesteads. We want to see barns, goats, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, horses, eggs, kids (the human kind, too), gardens, vineyards, orchards, compost piles, berry patches… We are so excited to show off your farms and homesteads! This post tells you how to participate.
As I type this, food freedom supporters are gathering in Minnesota at the trial of farmer Alvin Schlangen, co-owner and manager of Freedom Farms Co-op. Watch the short video to hear his story. “Alvin Schlangen, a peaceful Minnesota farmer and founder of Freedom Farms Co-op, connects people with the foods of their choice from local producers. Over the past two years, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture has illegally raided Alvin’s van, warehouse, and farm. The state has now brought 21 charges against Alvin related to food distribution; all are misdemeanor counts. Four of the misdemeanors are in trial [this week]. If convicted, Alvin faces up to a year in jail and hefty fines… just for helping to connect consumers to the producers and foods of their choice.” –Raw Milk Food Freedom Riders
We’re featuring spinach in our bi-weekly Seasonal Recipe Round-Up. In this post, you’ll learn all about spinach and how to best prepare it, I’ll share a favorite recipe, and then it is your turn to add your spinach recipes and tips to the linky box or to the comments. The linky won’t close and you can add as many old and new posts as you’d like. Next Friday, I’ll post a select group of recipes/tips from bloggers or commenters — if you’re chosen, you’ll get a free eCourse thank you video. Please read the guidelines for our link-up before posting.
Did you know you can ferment all manner of greens? Yes, you can — and it is a good idea because dark leafy greens are high in oxalic acid. Fermentation (and steaming) reduces this anti-nutrient which otherwise would interfere with mineral absorption. Spinach kraut is a lemony fresh and salty take on regular old cabbage kraut. We love it. (My new book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Fermenting Foods, includes this recipe, and a recipe for fermenting lemon and dill spinach sticks.)
Welcome to Simple Lives Thursday, a blog hop dedicated to simple living. “Consume less, produce more. ” So many topics fit: Gardening, raising animals, cooking from scratch, real food, natural cleaners, sewing, recycling, thrifting, a mindset of simplicity, saving a buck… Come on in, check out the featured posts from last week’s submissions, visit posts shared this week, or add your own post to this blog hop.
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Thank you to all who contributed to last week’s seasonal recipe round-up featuring chard. As I looked through what was submitted, I found I wanted to try so many! I selected three recipes to feature — a creative meatloaf, and two more-than-just-chard seasonal quiches. Remember, you can continue to add your chard recipes to last week’s round-up. Join us next Friday, the 11th, for a round-up featuring spinach.
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