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So far this spring (semester — I’m an academic, so my life is calculated not by seasonal transitions but artificially-imposed institutional ones) I’ve traveled to / spent nights in Manchester (NH), Newark, Quebec City, LA, Montreal, Boston … I’m on my way home right now for a blessed week+ stay at home-sweet-home before [...]
Over the course of the holidays, visiting family and friends, I must have eaten more butter than I normally eat over the course of 2+ months.
Don’t get me wrong, I eat a lot of butter at home regularly too!
But I also eat a good amount of other healthy fats — namely [...]
I’m talking bright yellow here — not neon or anything radioactive or painful to look at — but nothing that could possibly be confused with off-white, cream, beige, or, heaven forbid, WHITE. Refer to Exhibit B:
Mayo should be yellow because the ingredients that go into mayo, if they’re high-quality ingredients, should [...]
I’ve decided I’m going to make an effort to post every week about the ways I incorporate non-standard meats into our diets – from hearts and livers to tails and feet (maybe even a snout if I can get my hands on a soy-feed-free one) to everything in between that is icky and [...]
These worked almost as well as the onion crisps in our stockpile of road food, and as an added bonus, don’t need to be kept cool, because they don’t have any fat in them. (Tho I highly recommend adding fat to them when eating!) They were also less time-intensive to make, and [...]
These things are almost better than candy, or cookies. If you like caramelized onions, that is, and if they like you back! They’re basically little crispy sweet onion “crackers”, of the all-vegetable (and fat), grain-free variety. They took quite a bit of work to make, and when we figured out the cost comparison with, [...]
Sometimes, you just have too much of a good thing. (Not that the picture above is an indication that I think freight containers on a train are too much of a good thing. But everything in its proper proportion. And this post is as much about proper proportions as anything else.)
As [...]
Keeping it simple today. Here’s a copy of my list of what we brought along on our road trip food-wise:
Beef Jerky Salmon Jerky Caramelized onion crisps Dehydrated roasted red pepper strips Raw honey Coconut spreadable “butter” Nettle-oatstraw-raspberry leaf tea Coconut flour, carrot flour, and almond flour Kefir made from raw milk [...]
On the journey home from Taos, J had quite a few GAPS cheats. In fact, I think that by day 2 of the 4-day drive home, there were so many that I lost count, as there had already been quite a few before that from eating several doses of classic New Mexican food (read: Corn-based) [...]
Altho most of the foods we packed in the cooler for taking on our road trip were things that were fermented and/or dehydrated, so if they got above refrigerator temps they’d still be safe to eat, I did take a few limited frozen items which we managed to keep cool enough thru [...]
We’ve just finished up 2 ½ weeks on the road, mostly non-stop except for a few days relaxing in New Mexico. Yup, that’s right, we drove from Philly to Taos, New Mexico and back, spending time with 18 different family members (two of whom we’d never met in person before, not counting the [...]
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