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Posted by Springfield Locavore 6 months ago.
In the book In Defense of Food, one of the things Michael Pollan discussed was \"nutritionism\", which is thinking of food only in terms of their nutrients, rather than in terms of the whole food. One distinguishing feature of \"real\"...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 6 months ago.
Today's garden harvest: 19 pounds of Brandywine tomatoes. Tomorrow's cooking activity: Making tomato sauce. Lots of tomato sauce! I like tomatoes, but sheesh! Remember that book, The $64 Tomato I think it's safe to say that our tomatoes are costing...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 6 months ago.
We've got tomatoes. Lots of tomatoes. We planted 8 Brandywine heirloom tomato plants, and they have been producing plenty of massive, tasty, gorgeous red tomatoes! I like tomatoes, but I can only eat so many straight off the vine! We...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 6 months ago.
We finally have working Internet access again! Comcast came out and replaced the line to the house. Bingo! It all works again! I just wish I had called them to start with, rather than wasting time trying to diagnose and...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 6 months ago.
I'm not dead, but our Internet connection is. A few weeks ago, we began having intermittent outages. Then frequent outages. Now it's down pretty much all of the time, with occasional brief periods of uptime. After calling Comcast to fix...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 6 months ago.
Today's garden harvest was 10 Brandywine tomatoes weighing a total of 9½ pounds (very good!), plus a zucchini weighing 4½ pounds and measuring over 18 inches long (not so good). The largest of the tomatoes weighed 1½ pounds! After I...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 6 months ago.
The Illinois State Fair starts this weekend. Since the Illinois Products Farmers' Market held on Thursday evenings is located on the Illinois State Fairgrounds, that means no farmers' market this week or next week. We still have the Old Capitol...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 7 months ago.
Our lawn desperately needed to be mowed. The grass hasn't been growing very quickly recently -- although the weeds seem to grow at the same pace regardless of the weather. However, it had been long enough that it really needed...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 7 months ago.
We went to the Old Capitol Farmers' Market this morning and bought 24 ears of sweetcorn (cost: $9), which we then processed to freeze for the winter. Aw, Shucks! 24 ears of sweetcorn, ready to be shucked. Naked Corn! Ready...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 7 months ago.
I bought 8 pints of blueberries (cost: $28) at the farmers' market on Thursday, with the idea of freezing them for this winter. (It's coming! December 21 is just 143 days away!) To \"flash freeze\" them, you gently wash them,...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 7 months ago.
One of the interesting tidbits that I picked up while reading locavore-related books was the inverse relationship between cooking and obesity: More cooking leads to less obesity; less cooking leads to more obesity. As you might have noticed, there's not.....
Posted by Springfield Locavore 7 months ago.
This article at Good Times, Taking 'Local' Back, discusses another aspect of the topic of my earlier post about corporations abusing the term \"local\". It's not just local foods, but \"buy local\" campaigns in general that are finding ver...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 7 months ago.
Faux Handmade Consider this hypothetical scenario. Suppose that you discover a tiny furniture shop. You go inside and find a man making furniture — entirely by hand. Without the use of any power tools, he is crafting tables, chairs, stools,...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 7 months ago.
Last weekend we went to Bristol, Wisconsin (just north of the Illinois/Wisconsin border) to the Bristol Renaissance Faire! We love going to renfaires, and this one is a great one! It runs every weekend from just after July 4 through...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 7 months ago.
Did you notice the article Free food can be yours for the picking in the July 23 edition of the Illinois Times Here's an excerpt: \"Urban fruit foraging\" is a grassroots phenomenon that has arisen spontaneously as local folks have...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 7 months ago.
A coworker mentioned the other day that he had some fresh green beans recently, but that they weren't as good as the ones that came out of a can! They were leathery, and he had to throw out about a...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 7 months ago.
It seems like only yesterday that this was a small, unnotable zucchini in our garden. Wait... It was just yesterday! What the heck happened! I know there are larger zucchini than this, but the speed with which it went from...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 7 months ago.
Last week I discussed how being a locavore helps me lose weight. This morning I weighed 238.3, a loss of another 2 pounds over the last week! Can I maintain that weight loss as we start another week Breakfast: Scrambled...
Posted by Springfield Locavore 7 months ago.
Life is good! Breakfast - Cheese omelet Eggs from Bear Creek Farm & Ranch (Palmer, IL) Cheese from Ropp Jersey Cheese (Bloomington, IL) Milk from Kilgus Homestead (Fairbury, IL) Butter from Vincent Family Farm (Rochester, IL) Lunch - Sweetcorn, with.....
Posted by Springfield Locavore 8 months ago.
One of my hopes in becoming a locavore was that it would help me lose weight. After all, nutrition experts say that, instead of eating french fries, hamburgers, shakes, cookies, candy, chips, etc, we should be eating plenty of fresh...
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