Click here to go to the recipe We still have tomatoes in Northern California but not for much longer. On each of my last several trips to the Sunday farmer’s market, I’ve brought home three or four pounds of dry-farmed early girls. I’ve been roasting and freezing these small tomatoes so we’ll have some after […]
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Bread (Crumb) Labor
Click here to go straight to the recipe. I began baking bread after my daughter MK was born in 1994. You may think I’ve been merely nourishing my children—or perhaps poisoning them depending on your bread stance—but I like to think of myself as a revolutionary in the kitchen. The concept of bread labor played a key […]
Easy, Quick-Start, Overnight Irish Oatmeal
I stopped eating cereal after visiting an organic farm in the Caribbean in 2011. We ate organic homemade granola for breakfast every morning, topped with freshly harvested coconut milk and tropical fruit. After that, I purged store-bought cereal from our diet. You can’t make out some of the prices in the pic of the Safeway […]
How to Make Yogurt
Click here to go straight to the recipe. Making yogurt takes a bit more work than making buttermilk, but it’s still very simple. You need yogurt with live cultures to get started, but once you have yogurt, set some aside to make the next batch and continue the cycle perpetually (or at least for many months, even years). […]
Stove-Top Popcorn
Click here to go straight to the recipe. When I gave up plastic in 2011, I stopped eating processed food. That means no snack food unless I make it myself. So as my waste decreased, my diet improved. It’s a win-win! (And I haven’t been sick since 2011. Coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not.) But I still […]