this book was okay. she talks about eating locally and seasonally. with lots of recipes and cute tales.
Rasberry Syrup
2.5 pints raspberry juice
2 pounds sugar
1 pint water
mash berries well and strain through jelly bag. place sugar in preserving kettle, add water, place over fire, and stir until dissolved, then boil until clear and skim. Let syrup boil again until a soft ball is formed in cold water, then slowly add the fruit juice. Boil again. Skim and pour into hot sterilized jars.
Joans Pear Chutney Kosenko
mix:
4 pears, cut in 1"dice
1 cup light raisins
1 cup cider vigengar
3/4 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp each ginger, cinnamon, allspice
1/4 tsp ground cloves
2 fresh green or dried red chillies, chopped
1 medium onion.
bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, for 30 mins.
spoon into hot sterilized jars.
pg 148
Most of us dont live, or dont want to live where coal or chrome or copper or gravel are wrenched from the earth to provide us with heat or toasters or wiring or foundations, so the costs to the earth and to its living skin where those things are mined remain invisible to us. So does the true cost of our food, produced around the world often by people who are too poor to eat well, on cropland they might pther wise use to feed themselves. We can resist by participating in this pillage by living frugally, buying and replacing as few material objects as possible, and by trying to eat from farms close to home. In the garden, I figure, we can do it by not stealing topsoil from somewhere else, but by building it ourselves.
pg160
The idea that the earth would be a more fruitful place if all of us stopped eating animals and their products is simply wrong. this is so, among other reasons, because ruminants (animals who have bacteria in their guts that allow them to make use of plant matter that humans cant digest) can graze land not suitable for growing crops.
pg161
Everytime any of us eats we are benefitting from the killing of something- insects, birds, animals, even humans, - not just the plants we put into our mouth. Death is one of the true costs of our food. Death does not come merely to animals trapped, shot, or poisoned by farmers protecting their crops. It comes as well to creatures whose life spaces and local ecosystems are usurped by the vast monocultures of modern agriculture. Death also comes to workers and their children, forced to enter fields too recently sprayed with pesticides, to women and children going hungry as the food they grow is sold north for badly needed cash, to peasant families left without income as a multinational company refuses as `below standard` a broccoli crop intended for our freezers.
pg 184
"The homegrown tomato requires no fuel in its transport, no packaging to be sent to the landfull, no political decisions about who will be allowed to work the fields or what level of polutants is acceptable in our groundwater." John Jeavons
Spicy Fried Egg and Tomato
chop fine
1 mild green chilli, (anahiem, poblano)
fry lightly in corn oil
stir in
1 tsp cumin, (or more)
fry another minute.
half
8 big ripe luscious homegrown tomatoes
add to pan with salt and pepper
fry lightly on both sides.
fry the eggs in that oil and serve.
Panzella
in a large bowl combine
1 lb tomatoes
1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh basil
garlic
5 tsp olive oil
salt and pepper
1 1/2 cups stale italian or other good bread, soaked in water for 15 mins and squeezed dry.
toss to blend, season to taste
pg 190
...of 497 varieties of lettuce commercialy available in 1903, only 36 remained in 1980; 7 of 109 varieties of spinach; 79 of 408 varieties of tomatoe remained.
Tomatoe Glut Sauce
preheat oven to 400
in a large roasting pan
6 lbs tomatoes, quartered
1 1/2 cups coarsely cut carrrots
1 1/2 cups coarsely cut celery
1 1/2 cups " onions
9 cloves garlic or more
6 tbsp balsalmic vinegar
1 bay leaf
1 1/2 each frsh thyme, oregano, basil, parsley
salt pepper
roast for 45 mins, or until soft. process briefly to leave slightly chuncky. freeze in 2 cup portions. makes 4 lbs.
Sri Lankan Cabbage
(Kumar Rupesinghe)
thinly slice 2 + onions,
saute in butter or olive oil
add
1 tsp tumeric
several whole cardamon pods
some cloves
3 cloves garlic, chopped fine
when onions soft add
1 head thinly sliced cabbage.
fry till tender.
add a little salt to taste.
Baked Grated Carrots
preheat oven 350
in a casserole pan
3-4cups grated carrots
pour over them
2 tbsp melted butter
1 tbsp lemon juice
salt
1 tbsp chopped chives
1 tbsp sherry.
bake 30 mins
Blue and Green Potatoe Salad
boil in their skins 8 - 10 blue potatoes.
drain cut in 1/2" cubes
cut in similar sizes
2 cucs
roast
1 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1 1/2 tsp coriander seeds
crush
toss all together with
salt
2 tbsp lemon juice
pepper
red pepper
1/4 cup firmly packed fresh mint leaves, coarsely chopped
do not refridgerate.
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