Call us: 860-740-6938 and ask us a question or leave a comment! Cooking Oils, does it make sense to cook with extra virgin olive oil, what’s that word umami?, foraging is starting to take over the restaurant scene, whole house humidifiers and more on GardenFork Radio.
Harold McGhee’s article on using different cooking oils and does it make sense to cook with extra virgin olive oil is here
Chefs using foraged food in restaurants article is here
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One of Eric’s beehives crashes, and then we segue to traffic roundabouts, which reduce car crashes. Then Near Space cameras and a DIY Broiler Fired pizza oven from Mike Senese. We hope to get Mike to Skype into the show soon. Call with your questions or comments: 860-740-6938
photo by Wallyir
A great snack recipe from Karen Solomon, author of Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It . I saw this book at the MakerFaire and requested a copy from the publisher, and the rest is history. Watch as Eric works with chocolate.
What are your favorite snack recipes? let us know below:
The Baking Show this week. Why too much Leavener is bad, too much Salt is bad, not enough of either is not good either. More on Tartine Bread Book, Tracy weighs in on starting your own bread starter, electric knife biscotti, and Eric is now part of The Enlightenment, plus viewer mail! join our list, email us: [email protected]
The book, Becoming Jefferson’s People, by Clay Jenkinson
Susie Chang on NPR Food Podcast
Salt in Bread Baking by King Arthur Flour
Julie’s Roast Squash Recipe:
Cut an acorn squash or butternut squash in half, scoop out seeds and fibrous stuff. In a bowl, mix equal parts of brown sugar, butter, and maple syrup (I used about 2 Tbsp. of each). Brush this mixture all over the cut srufaces of the squash and you can even puddle a little bit in the “hole”. Sprinkle with salt and black pepper—-and believe me, the black pepper really adds that little sump’n sump’n to it so go for it—place on a baking sheet and bake @ 400 for 1 hr. I made a little extra of the sugar mixture and kept some out to add after baking.
Here in the south, we do a lot of casseroles and I was just kinda tired of the same old sweet potato casserole or butternut squash casserole and decided to try something different, simpler, and a little more health conscious. I know the butter and brown sugar doesn’t seem all that healthy but compared to what we usually put into a casserole (with pecan toppings, etc.), it really is.
Call our listener line: 860-740-6938 This time the Mike & Eric fishing show, Preparing for thanksgiving, Mike’s domestic car problem, using Guidestar.org to find out about nonprofits, James Lipton, and Roxbury Russet apples
The Brooklyn Kitchen, The Meat Hook, Emily Farris, Pork Shoulder, Spatcocking a chicken, Alternator repair and more on this episode of GardenFork Radio. Let us know below how the audio quality is. and all the listener line 860-740-6938 Here is our How To Replace your Alternator video
All our apple trees are done for the year. No more fruit to pick or pick up from the ground.
But I was by my neighbor’s house this weekend, and I saw he had one tree that was full of apples, and its the middle of November. I called him and asked if we could take some apples to make sauce. “Knock yourself out” was his answer. click here to watch our How to Make Applesauce video
In less than 30 minutes, I had 3 bushels of apples in my cart. There were a ton of apples on the ground, and most had little insect or fungal damage. Not bad for a tree that is not sprayed.
I started making sauce, and wanted to find out the name of this hardy apple. I took a ride down to see Priscilla, my neighbor who is a true homesteader: chickens, horses, guinea hens, steam engines and a cider press. She knew what is was immediately. Its a Roxbury Russet, a very old apple from Roxbury, Mass. The Roxbury Russet has good disease resistance, and ripens late in the year. Priscilla says the best tasting apples ripen last.
I thought it cool that we had an antique apple tree nearby, and that we even knew what kind of apple it is. Next year I’m bringing Priscilla samples from our other apple trees to see if she can identify those apples.
You can replace the alternator in your car or truck, even Eric can. Maybe. Watch our How to replace your truck or car alternator video here on GardenFork.TV . We show how you can test your alternator, and how to remove the alternator from your truck or car. AND we have the Labradors in the show as well. Have you removed your car alternator? Tell us your tips below:
Call us: 860-740-6938 ! Thanksgiving takes over a large part of this week’s show, brining, sides, and Mike has an opinion on all of this, Eric finds the Tartine Bread book and video to be excellent, preparing for winter, plus viewer mail and listener call in line calls. Chad Robertson’s new bread book, Tartine Bread is www.tartinebread.com. His restaurant is Tartine Bakery, www.tartinebakery.com Watch the video about their new book, Tartine Bread, here
Brine Recipe: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/10/my-favorite-turkey-brine/
860-740-6938 is our listener call-in line. Our first callers are here on this episode of GardenFork Radio, plus casserole talk, car talk, weather talk, and viewer mail. More cool stuff at www.GardenFork.TV
greening your athletics? yes, you can. Learn here how to recycle your old tennis shoes, sports footwear, sneaker, in this episode of Real World Green. let us know your thoughts below the video:
I usually don’t like auto play videos embedded on a web page. but i couldn’t stop watching this one about Tartine Bread book featuring Chad Robertson
I ran across this after reading a tweet by Mike Senese @msenese about his Halloween Pizza Bash. In my head I’m building a backyard pizza oven and i was intrigued by his Weber grill pizza oven. His oven plan came from PizzaHacker, and on the Pizza Hacker site was this video about the cookbook Tartine Bread
written by Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson, co-owners of the Tartine Bakery in San Fransisco
You can order the Tartine Bread Book here from an independent bookstore
Every year my friend Gary publishes a book called the Lunar Calendar, which incorporates celestial cycles into a daily planner. I think what Gary does is interesting; to me it combines astronomy and some aspects of astrology. You could use this to determine when is a good time to plant your garden or go fishing.
This year the Lunar Calendar is available as a plug in for iCal and Google Calendar. We sat in my kitchen and talked about the calendar and Gary’s view on auspicious moments. You can purchase The Lunar Calendar at www.LunarCalendar.biz
Oyster Mushrooms we found on a hike in the woods. Part of our Mushroom Identification series. For a mushroom identification video click here. Below the photo are some Mushroom Foraging Books I use to identify mushrooms, The Audubon Field Guide
is small enough to put in your pocket while hiking, and then you can cross-reference with the larger Mushrooms Demystified
book, which is also good.
Click Here To Buy From IndieBound
Less mouth noise this time, but for those of you who like it, its still there. Honey, iPhone repair, car safety, local wheat and the Casserole Crazy contest on this episode of GardenFork Radio. Call our listener phone and leave a comment or ask a question : 860-740-6938
I met Megan at a beekeeping meetup, and knew we had to have her on GardenFork Radio, so here we are at her place in GreenPoint Brooklyn to talk about urban homesteading. Megan’s sites are www.brooklynhomesteader.com and www.brooklynhoney.com
Just to let you all know it doesn’t happen just to you. I had my socket set opened up while working on my Ford F150, and somehow knocked the case of sockets off the fender, and into the dirt. Note the help I am getting from the Labradors.
I’ve heard from more than one person, be them beekeepers or just people who think they know something about honeybees and beekeeping, that you should only use cane sugar to feed your bees sugar syrup in the spring or fall.
I haven’t read this in any of my beginning beekeeping books, nor was it mentioned in my beekeeping class.
White table sugar, which is what we use to feed our honeybees in the fall and spring, is made primarily from sugarcane or sugar beets
I looked at sugar packages at the grocery stores in my town, I noticed one brand did say cane sugar on the package.
So, why do some say feed your bees only cane sugar?
It may be that sugarcane has not been genetically modified (yet). But there are GMO sugar beets:
“Genetically modified (GMO) sugar beets are already planted on more than one million acres of farmland, spanning 10 different states from Michigan to Oregon. In fact, the Roundup-resistant gene is present in 95-percent of U.S.-grown sugar beet plants.” Treehugger Federal Judge Bans Genetically Modified Sugar Beets
So it seems prudent not to feed your bees GMO sugar if you can. Yet GMO sugarcane is on the horizon:
Commercial utilisation of GM sugar cane is possible in the near future in the USA and Brazil. GMO-Compass
Now my head starts spinning. All we want to do is feed our bees some sugar to get them thru the winter and early spring, and we have to contend with global GMO issues.
What do we do? Let us know your thoughts below:
