Some days I just don’t plan. Then, ravenous, I have to do food, fast. Last night I was lucky. I found ground meat thawing in the fridge. Thinking it was lamb, I rushed outside to pick spearmint. With snow in the forecast, it was already on the pick list in my mind. But then I got back inside and […]
My estimable, round-bottomed wife is a bit of a kitchen witch. She keeps a half dozen large pots busy with all manner of things. Today, she had 4 pots going at once. She was thinking of a sundried tomato-beef stew using Frank’s good beef. But first, there was a pound of dried elderberries, to be simmered down […]
Eat Like Ben On Saturday while I headed to Denver to run a pop-up farm stand at Nurture Wellcare Marketplace, my wife Mary was rendering beef fat into tallow for skin creams. While digging in the freezer for suet, she had found a huge knobby beef bone. Onto the stove it went, to start a broth. By the time I got […]
