I never expected that I woul write so much about food on this blog! When I started Eight Acres, I didn't realise the connection between self-sufficiency and preparing food. It seems very obvious now that if you want to be able to provide your own food, you're going to have to know how to cook it and preserve it as well as grow it.
My food posts cover food that we've grown or produced ourselves, including beef, chicken, eggs, milk and vegetables, as well as preserving food that we've bought cheaply. For the past couple of years I have regularly made bread, yoghurt, kefir and cheese, and fermented drinks and pickles, stocks and sprouts. This year I learnt to make ice-cream and use a sourdough cake starter. I also reviewed a few different books about food and nutrition. Here is a selection of links from this year (and a few earlier ones) that you may find interesting. If you want to know why I eat real food, see this post: How did I get started with real food??
Food books that I've reviewed
Toxic Oil - book review
Making a meal of it - book review
Nutritionism - a book review
Whole Larder Love - book review
Cooked - Michael Pollan - Book review
Food Inc - movie review
Preparing food we grew
Organic sausage mix for home butchering
Raw milk yoghurt
Real food icecream
Handchurn real food icecream
Chicken and beef liver pate
Enjoying winter slaw
Cheese posts in particular
Quick cheese for busy people
Cheese-making interview
Maturing cheese in a cheese fridge
Waxing cheese
Dehydrating things
Dried zucchini slices
Dried garlic granules
Rosella tea
Fermenting things
Fermented lemon and barley drink
A sourdough cake starter called "Herman"
Fermented pickled cucumbers
Sourdough biscuits - adapting a recipe for sourdou...
Fermented fizzy drinks
Sourdough pancakes
Making red wine vinegar
Homemade realfood muesli bars (granola bars)
My food posts cover food that we've grown or produced ourselves, including beef, chicken, eggs, milk and vegetables, as well as preserving food that we've bought cheaply. For the past couple of years I have regularly made bread, yoghurt, kefir and cheese, and fermented drinks and pickles, stocks and sprouts. This year I learnt to make ice-cream and use a sourdough cake starter. I also reviewed a few different books about food and nutrition. Here is a selection of links from this year (and a few earlier ones) that you may find interesting. If you want to know why I eat real food, see this post: How did I get started with real food??
Food books that I've reviewed
Toxic Oil - book review
Making a meal of it - book review
Nutritionism - a book review
Whole Larder Love - book review
Cooked - Michael Pollan - Book review
Food Inc - movie review
Preparing food we grew
Organic sausage mix for home butchering
Raw milk yoghurt
Real food icecream
Handchurn real food icecream
Chicken and beef liver pate
Enjoying winter slaw
Cheese posts in particular
Quick cheese for busy people
Cheese-making interview
Maturing cheese in a cheese fridge
Waxing cheese
Dehydrating things
Dried zucchini slices
Dried garlic granules
Rosella tea
Fermenting things
Fermented lemon and barley drink
A sourdough cake starter called "Herman"
Fermented pickled cucumbers
Sourdough biscuits - adapting a recipe for sourdou...
Fermented fizzy drinks
Sourdough pancakes
Making red wine vinegar
Homemade realfood muesli bars (granola bars)
Freezing things
Freezing green beans
How to Freeze Avocado
Canning things
Learning canning and bottling
Freezing green beans
How to Freeze Avocado
Canning things
Learning canning and bottling
Other food posts
Healthy salt?
Homemade vanilla extract
Cooking and eating beans
Soaked flour pizza bases
Real food rum balls
Healthy salt?
Homemade vanilla extract
Cooking and eating beans
Soaked flour pizza bases
Real food rum balls
Did you learn anything new about food in 2013? What do you want to learn in 2014?
Oh wow! THanks for putting all this in one place! I'm bookmarking this so I can return to it over and over!
ReplyDeletewhat a great list!!!
ReplyDeleteJust fabulous Liz, thanks for putting all this together. I am on the same path but have come hardly down the track at all. There has been feta and haloumi and pecarino, breadmaking and yoghurt making, a little cow milking ( we are getting better). Lots of preserves and soon our own lamb. BUT, you have to tell me more about your cryovac thingy!
ReplyDeletewow that's an impressive list! Very inspirational doll. Well done. We've recently been eating more of a whole food plant based diet (from watching knives over forks and food matters). I feel very differently towards food now. Crazy how simple chances can affect your life so much! Keep up the amazing work. Your cheese making is incredible!! I've only ever been game enough to try soft fresh cheese! Mx
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments, hope you can all find something interesting in the list :)
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