Low Mileage Food

Green Cleaning

One of the items on the master LMF To Do list is making meal bars of some kind. Think something like a granola bar or Powerbar and you’ll get the idea. Possible ingredients might be peanut butter, granola, nuts, sunflower seeds, and dried fruit.
There’s a specific reason I’m asking. I just started [...]

I spotted this entry from Groovy Green over on Make Magazine’s blog this morning. I knew you could grow your own, but hadn’t read about anyone actually doing it until now.
Linky: http://groovygreen.com/groove/?p=689

Now that we’ve made butter several times, I thought I’d post an update on the experience.
We used ripened cream for our second batch and didn’t notice much difference. For the sake of ease, the rest of the butter we’ve made has started with the same cold, unripened heavy cream as the first small batch. [...]

Butter 003

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As Joyce mentioned in the last post, we bought a half gallon of cream at the farmer’s market today with the hope of making our own butter. Well, it’s not a hope any longer – we just made some.
We filled [...]