January 2006

Gastrocast #43

January 25, 2006

In this week’s show we make a Winter Salad of Chicken Thighs with a Blood Orange Vinaigrette. For this and much more check out the show or subscribe to it via RSS. If you’re looking for detailed cooking classes taught by a knowledgable chef, who’s available to answer questions, this is a great way to [...]

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Polytunnel Stage II

January 22, 2006

Over the past week I’ve had a bit of a chance to work on the polytunnel. Now that the seeds have arrived there is more incentive than ever to move the project along. This past weeks efforts have included adding a baseboard along the outside, beginning to frame in doorways, anchoring the ribs to the [...]

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Gastrocast #42

January 20, 2006

The Great Corned Beef Experiment begins. Not because of approaching St. Patrick’s Day, but because it is winter and corned beef is so good, we’re making our own. It should be ready around the first of March. We’re curing a whole brisket to turn into Corned Beef for the classic Corned Beef and Cabbage and [...]

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The Polytunnel

January 16, 2006

This past weekend saw the beginning of our first polytunnel. The project will be documented in pictures here, so keep checking back. As DIY projects go this one is fairly easy to tackle and the materials are simple to come by. I scoured the web for ideas and never quite came up with what I [...]

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Seed Order

January 12, 2006

Our Kitchen Garden seeds are ordered and on their way. We order from two catalogs each year to get a selection, and we’ve never had a problem with the seeds. We also like both of the company’s because the seeds they sell work very well in our Maritime Pacific Northwest Climate. The companies are Territorial [...]

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National Animal Identification System

January 12, 2006

I’m not going to write much about this here, because cause you can read what I’ve written here. But if you eat meat, raise animals, have pets, it is in your best interest to inform yourself about the NAIS plan and act. As it stands now, this is a costly system which benefits no one [...]

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The Gastrocast Podcast & Cookbook

January 9, 2006

I wanted to take a minute to write about our pet project. The Kitchen Garden Company is extremely proud to sponsor The Gastrocast Podcast and the Cookbook of recipes from the first 26 or so episodes. First, a bit about what a podcast is. A podcast is a, generally, free downloadable audio or video show [...]

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Winter Gardening

January 6, 2006

The sad state of gardens in winter is no reason to abandon them completely. It may be wet and mucky out, or they may be covered in snow–a blessing we rarely have here in the Pacific Northwest–but that is no reason to abandon the source of some of the best tasting vegetables you can get: [...]

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Bear With Us

January 5, 2006

Things are slowly getting up to speed and I hope everything will be switched over by the end of the week. There are just a few more things to get worked out with WordPress before we can fully close off the old site. Until then it is still active as well. Meanwhile winter wears on [...]

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Gastrocast #40

January 4, 2006

Gastrocast #40Originally uploaded by podchef. A test blog using a recent Gastrocast flickr photo.

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