Pork Needs Our Help.

OLIVE OIL
GROUND PORK
PORK SHOULDER
DRIED CHILE:
ANAHEIM, JALAPENO, DEL AMARILLO
CORIANDER
CUMIN
BLACK PEPPER
SEA SALT
RAW SUGAR


YELLOW ONION
CARROT
ROASTED POTATOES
SWEET CORN
BEANS
LIME

Compost Happens.

Burgertime!

I Am Awake. Vernal Eve Haiku.

A Blend Of Black Teas.
Tomorrow is spring, day one.
Excited to plant!

The Thyme Has Come; Lettuce Rejoice!

Teach Kids To Cook

ICE CREAM? No WHEY!

BEWARE. Lurking in the ice cream isle of your supermarket in the same containers as the REAL ice cream is "FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT".- Nowhere on the carton does it have the words ICE CREAM..? Whey is the first ingredient, followed by skim milk and then sugar. Whey is a by-product (leftover) from the cheese making process. It is fit for human consumption, however, it is mostly fed to livestock (cows &pigs&chickens).

Babies. It's Whats For Dinner?

Cooking With John does not condone these actions. Just reporting the facts...

Two Perennial Vegetables Indigenous to Ohio

Perennial-a plant living for more than two years.
Indigenous-native.

Don't get Ill, while you grill

In preparation for the grilling season, here's a little food safety advice courtesy of the USDA. I wonder if they sell stuffed animals?

10 Days til Spring

Spring fever
Originally uploaded by Film Fan 4

Steak and Potatoes

steak pic
Originally uploaded by BganFilms

Marinated and baked steak with fried potato Latke and kumquat chutney.

Bottom round marinated in:
Soy
zested ginger
garlic
assorted hot peppers
for twenty-four hours.

Latkes
Shredded potato
garlic
jalapeno
salt
pepper
cumin
cayenne
fried in olive oil

Kumquat Chutney
40 kumquats chopped and de-seeded
sugar
apple cider vinegar
coriander

Rock out with your stock out.

There's always room for turkey jello mold.
Originally uploaded by BganFilms

One from the vault. Just as we were coming out of the Thanksgiving side dish haze, we recycled some of the leftovers to make stock. A combination of the leftover turkey bones, a mire poix, and spices -- sauteed in turkey fat. As an added bonus, Croke describes a recent brush with the law.

FAT

Name That Garden.

Victory gardens, war gardens or food gardens for defense..?

"Victory and defeat are of the same price."
Thomas Jefferson

“I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand.”
Sam Houston

“It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I vote for a UNITY GARDEN.

U.S.D.A. Livestock Projections

We are consuming more meat but paying less as a percentage of our income. Know where your meat comes from?

LABELING CATEGORIES

The law expressly establishes four general categories of meat products.

Product of the United States - A covered commodity is eligible for designation as "Product of U.S." only if it is derived "exclusively from an animal that is exclusively born, raised and slaughtered in the United States."

Multiple countries of origin - A product is deemed to have multiple countries of origin if the animal from which it was derived was born and/or raised in a different country or countries and then slaughtered in the U.S. Covered commodities in this category would have to identify all the relevant countries.

Animals imported for immediate slaughter - Covered commodities from animals raised in another country but slaughtered in the U.S. would fall into this category.

Imported finished products to be sold at retail - Meat products imported from another country would be labeled as a product of that country.

The statute also has special provisions for ground products such as ground beef or ground pork. Specifically, the law allows ground products to declare on labels the countries of origin from which the product inputs came or, in the alternative, the label may declare the countries �that may be reasonably contained therein.� Thus, the regulation allows a ground beef label, for example, to list the countries that are or may be the sources of the ground beef inputs, so long as the processor has had in inventory an input from that country in the previous 60 days.

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Meet Your Meat

in 1960 we, in the U.S., ate about 28 pounds of chicken per person per year. Today we eat over 90 pounds.

Sugar Consumption In The U.S. 26 Pounds To 135 Lbs. Of Sugar Per Person Per Year!

Could higher taxes on foods with high sugar content help get our economy back on track at the same time reducing the obesity scourge???