Harvesting Pork

Warning: To all my vegetarian and vegan friends and otherwise sensitive viewers, this post is probably not for you. There are vivid photos of our experience “harvesting” a hog last November. Please know that I do respect you equally and hold you just as reverently as I do meat eaters! Completely inspired by authors like [...]

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Beyond the Real Food Challenge

As the month of March wraps up, so does the Real Food Challenge, at least here on Not Dabbling. Hopefully you will all continue to replace fake food with more real foods in your diet throughout the year and join us again next March. Throughout the rest of this year we’re going to take some [...]

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Week 4 Winner!

We felt like it was high time for a giveaway for our Real Food Challenge partners, so we asked those involved to tell us how they were doing on Saturday’s post. Well, here it is: The winner is Zonnah, from Zonnah’s Addictions! Congratulations on winning the packets of seeds from Seed Savers Exchange! (Now I [...]

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Fit For a Tea

I’m so not one of “those” girls. I scoff at mini skirts, would prefer work shoes to high heels, and was the girl that made boys cry when I liked them. In  high school and college wearing Doc Martins with a dress was fancy. What can I say, I was a misguided youth lacking a [...]

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Real Food Recipe: My Other Heritage

My family, in typical American fashion, brings together numerous food heritages: Greek, Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, Swedish. If you’re not an adventurous eater in my family, you’re in trouble.  Here’s stir fry the way the Cantonese make it (as taught me in college by my husband). Simple stir fry Extra-long grain rice, 1/2 cup dry for [...]

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Hipster Supported Agriculture gears up for the season

While gardening with children is a boom industry, gardening with teens and even more with young adults is rare, at least in the working class and affluent neighborhoods that I’m in (there are lots of urban gardening projects for young people in inner cities). Hipster Supported Agriculture is my private little corner of the food [...]

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Real Food Roundup: Week 4

Today we’ll be giving away an assortment of heirloom seeds from Seed Savers Exchange to one of our lucky readers! Be sure to post your Real Food Challenge progress at the end of the post. We’ll use a random number generator to choose the winner – only one entry per household please! Now that things [...]

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Improvisational Real Food, Jazz in the Kitchen

Have you ever been struck like lightning with the urge to just cook something? More than that, it has to be something you haven’t made before; it has to be new, exciting and readily available. You rush to your cupboard and like an elderly Mother Hubbard you find there is not a bone to be [...]

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Tricky Terminology

Today I’m sharing one part of a three-part series from my blog, Unearthing this Life, that may shed light on some of the confusing terminology stores, agri-business, and the USDA use on our groceries. The other parts of the series include information about GMOs, pesticides, and several gardening techniques to be aware of when looking [...]

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Wild Food is the Original Real Food

“People simply fall in love with wild foods. Lord knows these wild things swept me away. Folks want to be seduced by their mystery, their freedom from the bonds of agriculture. Our human civilization, based on agriculture, has struggled for millennia to no longer depend on foraging in the wild. But here at the start [...]

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