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Buying Grain

Posted in kitchen logistics, milling on January 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Every so often I get an email asking me where and in what quantities I buy my grain.
I buy 50lb bags of both soft white wheat and hard white or red wheat. In general I get these from Eden Organic Foods in Clinton Michigan. I buy them there because I drive by the company headquarters [...]

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Another Resolution

Posted in kitchen logistics on January 7, 2008 | 6 Comments »

I typically spend an average of $180/wk on groceries. That’s a lot for an average American family. While quality food simply costs more, I think I can make some improvements.
Lowering Your Grocery Budget has some excellent pointers for reducing costs. For starters I plan to wean myself off coffee/tea and reduce alcohol purchases to once [...]

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Equipment Priorities

Posted in gadgets, kitchen logistics on April 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »

For those on a limited budget like myself, you have to prioritize what kitchen equipment you buy. Having been cooking traditionally for almost a year now, I have some opinions on equipment priorities for this style of cooking. Some people may find these useful. I’m assuming you already have a refrigerator, freezer, stove, and other [...]

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Weekly Planning Pt. 2

Posted in kitchen logistics on February 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Start with part 1.
On Saturdays, if I am in need of more meat stock to put in the freezer, I start cooking that in the morning. I cook that most of the day and then put it on ice in the sink. After it has significantly cooled I put it in the refrigerator till the [...]

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Weekly Planning Pt. 1

Posted in kitchen logistics on February 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Cooking in a traditional manner requires a lot more planning and preparation than the average American cook is used to. My planning-ahead skills have never been very good, so I have had to really work on developing them. This has certainly not been an overnight thing, but something that I have had to grow into [...]

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Weaning Your Family

Posted in foodosophy, kitchen logistics on November 16, 2006 | No Comments »

At first I wondered how to move my family toward eating nourishing traditional foods. Case in point…
One of my son’s favorite foods is boxed cold cereal. He would live on it if he could. I’m of the opinion that boxed cold cereal is one of the worst things you could possibly eat (see Dirty Secrets [...]

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Gourmet

Posted in kitchen logistics on October 20, 2006 | No Comments »

I’m currently trying out a program called Gourmet. I’m a Linux user and this installed easily in Ubuntu. Apparently there is a version for Windows as well, but it doesn’t look like it’s real easy to install and is a bit behind the Linux version.
At first I thought that it would be difficult to use [...]

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How it Began

Posted in kitchen logistics on October 16, 2006 | 1 Comment »

About 4 months ago I took over the kitchen in our house. My wife Shari had taken care of the kitchen for the first 12 years of our life together and had lost a lot of her love of cooking and baking. She also had a huge change in her work life and became one [...]

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