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Posts under ‘Food’
Overwhelmed with tomatoes?
what to do when all you see are tomatoes for miles around?
Garlic Update
Garlic is easy to grow and easy to put away for the winter.
Turkeys do NOT gobble
Turkey noises.
Royal Burgundy – Beans, that is
We’re pretty loosey-goosey here at KCE; Aunt Toby doesn’t tend to promote or recommend products. A lot of that has to do with the fact that what works here at Chez Siberia just might not work for readers where in particular you are. But I’m making a special case here with Royal Burgundy Beans. For [...]
Catching up out in the barnyard
more updates on raising turkeys and lambs.
Ding! Time to get a jump on a fall garden
OK, it’s mid-July here at Chez Siberia and it’s been horrifically hot. And dry. And the garden is not, shall we say, looking its best. We’re still harvesting but there are parts of beds that have been picked over, harvested out. There are lettuces that have bolted. (the photo above is basil – which does [...]
Raising Small Livestock: The Devil’s in the Details
A lot of people would like to raise some sort of livestock – whether it’s chickens or pigs or lambs or whatever – but they are stopped by lack of experience and fear. Actually, raising animals is pretty simple (not necessarily easy – which is a whole different deal):
– Make sure they have [...]
More Brisket BBQ – Asian Pulled Beef
All pulled beef looks the same, so I’m not going to give you a photo essay on that. Go here:
Pulled BBQ
But I do have a totally “Aunt Toby Sticks Her head in the Fridge and Sees What Comes Out” sort of BBQ. We had guests coming on Friday night. I also had to go to [...]
Kitchen Counter Economics is a community where we can share ideas on how to save money, live more sustainably, and gain control over the stuff of daily living for ourselves and our families in the current economic environment. This started as a series of diary postings at the 
