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When I saw the pack of country-style pork ribs in the CSA cooler last month I was a bit nervous about what I’d do with them. The smoker is covered in snow, plus Jenny isn’t into ribs anyway. I figured some kind of braise would be best, but the thought of exactly how to cook [...]

This is a really simple recipe that’s help me recently get over the intimidation factor of working with whole chickens. I’ve done this twice now; once with a kosher bird from Empire and more recently with a whole chicken from my January Meat CSA share. I’ll let you guess which one was tastier. What you [...]

The recipe is here, so no need to repeat it. I thought I had some coconut milk, but I didn’t. Doh! Ended up substituting almond milk + some butter (to kick up the fat a little). It was awesome anyway, but I still stocked up on coconut milk for next time. To accompany it I [...]

We picked up our 1st Chestnut Farm CSA meat share yesterday. 10 lbs of neatly wrapped yummy in a little red Playmate cooler. The share contained: 1 whole chicken 2 lamb shoulder chops 4 country-style pork ribs 1 lb lamb stew meat 2 lbs ground beef 2 beef rib steaks

Great book. Probably you’ve heard of it. Deservedly one of the NYT Review of Books Top 10 for 2006. I also recommend browsing Michael Pollan’s site where he links to lots of online lectures and podcast interviews. So here’s some decisions/ideas that came about as a result of reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma. No more supermarket [...]