Oh, yes…pizza for breakfast again! This time, BBQ chicken, made with our very own pastured rooster. And did we mention those delectable made-in-Italy pizza crusts from Trader Joe’s?
Category: Food
Dinner For Breakfast: Hamburger Pizza
Who doesn’t like pizza for breakfast? And how about one you can make in just a few minutes?
Slow Food: The Terroir Of Pastured Rooster
With each chicken egg hatch, around half of the chicks will be males. What to do with all of those cockerels? As we mentioned in an earlier post, you must have a plan for them or it can get real, fast: when cockerels’ hormones kick in, they can become a handful.
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Dinner For Breakfast: Loco Moco
I have eaten my fair share of “local food”, meaning the multicultural food culture the diverse people of Hawaii have created and made uniquely their own, and includes influences from ethnic Hawaiian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Portugese, and Filipino food. When you eat “local food”, you’re eating from a cultural melting pot that has successfully married unlikely partners such as Spam and the sticky rice and nori from sushi. Don’t call it Spam sushi – it’s Spam musubi (pronounced “moo-soo-bee”, accent on the first syllable). It used to be a guilty pleasure, but I no longer eat it because it (1) contains factory farmed pork , (2) contains sodium nitrite, and (3) is high in sodium. Continue reading “Dinner For Breakfast: Loco Moco”
Farm Foraging: Queen Anne’s Lace Jelly and Syrup
Making food and drink from edible wild-growing plants is truly a gift that brings us closer to the land and its bounty. It illustrates, in a very practical way, the benefits of not using chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers): we don’t have to worry about what’s been sprayed on our property…because nothing has been. And that means I can collect the frilly white flower heads of wild-growing Queen Anne’s Lace for jelly and know that I’m getting exactly what I think I am and nothing extra.
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Homemade Desserts: Vegan New York Cheesecake
While the duck egg cheesecake was delightful, it’s now just a lovely memory. Sticking with the cheesecake theme, I decided to make a vegan one next – it’s full of healthy ingredients and is a snap to make. And it will not only work as dessert, it could work as breakfast, too!
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