Late night, last night I pulled out the two turkeys I had harvested on Saturday and started preparing them for thanksgiving. The thing that was so striking about them was how beautiful the birds are. I have prepared heritage birds for a number of years, but those came from other producers. As a result they [...]
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Confit on the Way: A Photo Log
Posted in Food Theory, Locavore, Poultry, Recipes, tagged Food, Locavore, Recipes, Thanksgiving, Turkey on November 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Turkey Two Ways
Posted in Food History, Food Politics, Food Theory, Locavore, Poultry, Recipes, tagged Food, Locavore, Recipes, Thanksgiving on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While I have been buying Heritage Breed turkeys for the past eight years, this is the first time that they are making the very short trip from our back lawn to the oven, never having left our sight. We got a bit of a late start, the birds having hatched out in the first week of June, so we will be culling two of the smaller hens rather than the big toms, which we will retain for breeding next years crop.
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What happened to our pork?
Posted in Food Politics, Food Theory, Locavore, Recipes on December 23, 2009 | 16 Comments »
We had the opportunity to spend a long weekend in Seattle last week. For country mice like us this is a pretty big deal. On my agenda for the visit – along with taking the girls to see the lights at Westlake and visit the Zoo – was getting some of the food we cannot [...]
The Real Thing
Posted in Food History, Recipes on December 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I wish I could say that making real eggnog at Christmas time was a Nattress family tradition. It was not. We had the Dairygold variety out of the box when I was a kid. Oh sure, we grated a little extra nutmeg on the top of it and my parents added some booze, but it [...]
“He was a bold man that first eat an oyster” *
Posted in Beaches, Locavore, Oysters, Recipes on December 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I have yet to find a beach on which I can forage for oysters. I still haven’t figured that one out. But Tyla and I are blessed, living here in Coupeville in that our local grocer carries oysters live in the shell. At least once a week this fall our lunch has consisted of a [...]
How is a Plum like an Onion?
Posted in Food Theory, Foraging, Locavore, Orchards, Recipes on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If I am going to eat a fresh plum, then a Santa Rosa Plum, with its super fragile, water-balloon-like flesh is my hands down favorite. But when it comes to making jam, jelly or a plum tart, they cannot hold a candle to the much less sexy but ever more versatile Italian Prune Plum. [...]
The Wiley Dungeness: Post Season Recap
Posted in Beaches, Clamming, Crabbing, Food Theory, Foraging, Kayaking, Locavore, Recipes on September 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A recap of my successes and failures crabbing for Dungeness from a kayak in Puget Sound
Who said Humpies Aren’t Tasty?
Posted in Beaches, Fishing, Food Theory, Foraging, Locavore, Recipes on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My best friend Dave worked at Pike Place Fish and Pure Food at Pike Place Market for many years. Of course that was years after we both worked together at the Captain Whidbey, when we were kids. We both have a lot of fish in our past, Dave even more than me. I was talking [...]
Digging Freshly Dug Spuds
Posted in Farmers' Markets, Food Theory, Locavore, Recipes on September 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Willowood Farm’s Fresh Potatoes are a thing of beauty My three-year-old-daughter Molly is a big fan of potatoes in just about any from. She likes them with or without skins, boiled, fried, simply mashed with olive oil and salt or pureed and adulterated with cream and butter. Regardless of how they are prepared she refers [...]
It’s a Humpy Year
Posted in Beaches, Fishing, Food Politics, Foraging, Locavore, Recipes on August 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
At its most basic, fishing is the belief that the next cast is going to be entirely different from all previous casts. Casting off a beach on the western side of Whidbey Island in the effort to bring home dinner requires this kind of consistent, almost delusional optimism. It also requires a back up plan [...]
