Recipe Pro-Tool

Michael Ruhlman’s recent post about cookbooks that teach got me thinking about how much I used to love cookbooks. Back when I was a novice cook, books like “The Joy of Cooking,” “The Professional Chef” (the basis of The Culinary Institute of Americas’ “The New Professional Chef”), Henri Pellaprat’s “Modern Culinary Art,” almost anything by [...]

A gift of Globe

Jearl Pino, one of the guys who likes to come around to the farm and help with various projects, bought a Globe slicer from some guy who advertized it on Craigslist. I suppose the machine was too big to keep at Jearl’s house because he asked if he could leave it at [...]

Lettuce for Blues

I’ve been a pretty lousy blogger these last few months. There are several reasons for my negligence but the most significant have been a major bout of the blues following the death of a close friend and a serious effort to spend less time on the computer and more time doing hands-on constructive things like [...]

Another tempest in a teapot

Embedded video from CNN Video
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Deep Thought: Best thing is no thing

I usually don’t pay much attention to bumper stickers. Most of them seem to express ideas I don’t want to care about: someone’s favorite band; the place or pet they “HEART;” the politician they think is going to make life demonstrably different and, increasingly, vulgar assertions that in more polite times were only [...]

Iowa-sciutto

Sky Full of Bacon 10: Prosciutto di Iowa from Michael Gebert on Vimeo.
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Egyptian Pig Slaughter

I’m putting a hyperlink to this unbelievably horrible video of the hog cull in Egypt instead of posting the video because it is just too disturbing to include in this blog. If there is anyone out there who can explain to me how what the Egyptian government is doing makes any sense at all, [...]

‘Tis the season….

by Mike Pardus
All winter, I watch the weather for skiing, by the end of March most of the snow is gone and it’s time to think about my favorite spring sport- Mushroom Hunting! I start to watch ground moisture and temperature, air temperature, and precipitation. When it’s moist and the ground temp climbs above 55F [...]

This Morning

When I pulled in to the farm this morning, the air was thick with fog. The fog made everything look fuzzy. It was like I was looking through the lens of a camera that was covered by a shear nylon stocking.
Even though I was sure that I was not observing the world through a [...]

Roast Beef Recipe Circa 1955

Here’s a roast beef recipe that is sure to raise an eyebrow. It’s from comedic genius Gracie Allen. I’ve included a YouTube video of the The George Burns and Allen Show that contains a reference to the recipe @ circa 25 minutes into the show.
FW: Gracies kitchen magic
Gracie Allen’s Classic Recipe for Roast [...]