Gastrocast #161

December 22, 2008

Just in time for Christmas, a totally non-Christmasy show!  This time we re-visit corning beef with Brisket of Torino, and we talk about news and weather.
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Gastrocast #160

December 12, 2008

This week’s show is a few days later than I wanted. Lot’s going on. I hope you will enjoy it. In #160 we talk about Guerrilla Gardening, ordering seeds, the hot food-news topics and I give you my mother’s Fruit Cake Recipe.
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Gastrocast #159

December 4, 2008

This week’s show is here. The Zoom h4 is working great, but I’m still working on getting the right sound in Kitchen Studio. This week there’s news, life on Podchef Island, The Demise of Pinkie Winkie, and a Swiss Chard, Bacon & Kale mega-quiche.
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Dark Days

November 30, 2008

Will this decade see the end of Agrarian Farming? Certainly I am not the only writer, farmer, eater-of-things-grown to pose this question in the past 20, 30, or 40 years, but for some reason this year, at this time, it seems like the cards are stacked against the small farmer and market gardener in [...]

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Baking in the Wood Oven

November 27, 2008

Here’s a little film which has been in the works for a short while. A day in the baking life of our wood fired, masonry oven. Enjoy!
Note: The sound actually matches the video on this one. Sorry for any confusion earlier!
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Gastrocast #158

November 25, 2008

This week’s episode is here!¬† The new Zoom H4 gets its test drive in this slightly longer show. In addition, a new oven has arrived in Kitchen Studio. I managed to score a new but never installed oven off of Craig’s List for a fraction of the cost and it works brilliantly.¬† We use [...]

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Gastrocast #157

November 15, 2008

This show began way back in October. I had some technical difficulties, which are now solved. So here then are a couple of fragments joined together to create something I hope you’ll enjoy. First I gather Rose Hips to make syrup and then I cook a Green Tomao Curry.
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Pizza in the Wood Oven

November 14, 2008

Recently, we fired up the Wood Oven to bake bread. In order to achieve the maximum bake we preheat the oven the night before and usually bake pizza while we do. Here then is a short film about that activity. A fuller feature is coming about baking bread in the oven. Kudos to Big Ed [...]

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How to Open an Opinel

October 24, 2008

Somehow I forgot to post this here. So, for those of you who missed it, the first time around–here it is! And just what is this gem? It is a short–very short–clip on how to open an Opinel.¬† As many of you know, my favorite “pocket” knife is an Opinel No. 8. I carry one [...]

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Gastrocast #156

October 20, 2008

Finally, after a long pause–a new episode! I’m sorry it has taken so long to post this. My life is not my own these days, as you will here. Hopefully, though, things will even out and I can continue to bring you a weekly show and more videos soon. Meanwhile, enjoy what you can.
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August Smallholding Update

September 13, 2008
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Here’s a short film about what I got up to in the Month of August. From teaching an on-farm workshop, to harvesting barley, traveling across the country to cook and back to give a cooking demonstration at the county fair, it was a busy month. Enjoy.

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The Podchef’s Recent Adventure

September 2, 2008

Here’s a short film about my recent trip to the East Coast and the local meal I cooked there for some listeners to the show. After touring around the region where I grew up, I selected some cheese from Cato Corner Farmstead Cheese, some produce from Woodbridge Farm CSA, some excellent lamb from Sankow’s Beaver [...]

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Pig Keeping Talk

August 27, 2008

This was shot last month when the Evergreen State College group was here. Some thoughts on pig keeping and livestock care.

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Gastrocast #155

August 26, 2008

A New Show! It’s about time. In it, I explain what’s been going on and I walk you through a warm salad of baby beets and their greens.
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Moving Pigs

August 23, 2008

A short film about moving my pigs when the Evergreen State College Sustainable Agriculture program students were here. It gives a brief glimpse about moving them and my livestock philosophy.

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