My Tenuous Relationship with Fat
The other day I found myself accosted by a vegan. The circumstances are irrelevant, but the odd thing was that is happened several times in a row. Within the hour. Maybe they were secretly all in it...
View ArticleDay 2: Sugarless
No, you didn’t miss day 1. I’ve just been really busy and didn’t get to write yesterday. I’ve always danced around the idea of giving up sugar, by which I meant, refined sugar- you know, candy and that...
View ArticleDay 5: Madness
I tried to drink a bowl of bone broth this morning. Beef broth. Stock. Whatever the hell it’s called. This is what everyone recommends. Improve your health! Drink the broth! It will magically cure...
View ArticleDay 10: Frustration
I know this whole diet is supposed to make me feel better, but mostly I’m just angry. All the time. Or frustrated. Or exhausted- I really have not felt so lethargic in a long time. Here’s my summary so...
View ArticleDay 14: Winning
So today was to be the last day of my diet. But as I read more of the book on tooth decay, I realized the two week mark was just for best case scenarios. No, it could take 6 weeks or more for my teeth...
View ArticleDay, Um, Something: Ongoing
So I may have given the impression in my last diet related post that I was giving up the diet. And I kind of intended to. I was really frustrated and having all these cravings and just feeling shitty...
View ArticleDay 26: Variety
I remembered that I started on April 1, so it’s easy to keep track of the days, as long as you don’t count the four days or so where I abandoned the diet entirely and binged on sugar. So not counting...
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A Farm Like No Other
And so begins a story. A story of a pig. Not this exact pig, but a pig very like this pig, from Black Bottom Farm. You might not want to read this post if you find it a little macabre (the pig is going...
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And Then Some
I have all these pictures I haven’t posted. God only knows what half of them are. So one day I got crazy and made a thousand things in one go. These included: Beef stew (which was canned for the...
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Fall Inventory 2014
Well, things are still busy. And money is still… hm, well. But as everyone keeps reminding me, and what is very true (and reassuring), we have plenty of food. In fact, based on my annual November...
View ArticleWhy Garden
(Actually written about a month ago) Someone asked me recently why we garden. I guess that’s actually the whole reason I started writing here, though I have diverged into a slew of posts about life,...
View ArticleBack in April
So I wrote this post a few months ago and forgot about it… hope it’s not too out of context. ******* I’m so full of thoughts these days it’s hard to even know where to start. I’ve been fiddling around...
View ArticleDating vs. Farming
A typical conversation in our household: Me: I saw so and so tonight at the restaurant. They were having a really nice date. Him: Yeah? Me: Yeah. We never go out anymore, do we. Maybe we should have a...
View ArticleIn Praise of Friends
In the same vein as yesterday’s post about learning from each other, I felt compelled to write about the random wild afternoon of yesterday. After a long day of sewing, I drove out to Delaware to pick...
View ArticleOn This Day
About nine years ago, about on this day, I met a man. Before you assume this is one of those love stories, let me correct you. It’s a love story to food. It’s a love story to the food he is always...
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Patsy Cline and Tomatoes
In my memory it was a bright, sunny summer morning. It must have been early, as I was supposed to be at the farm very, very early in the morning on the days I worked, but that morning I had a long...
View ArticleOver Again
I want to start writing about food (again), but it’s hard to know where to start. I also almost never have time to actually sit at a computer and write. Sitting at a computer is part of my old life...
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