Eating Local in the Summer Is Easy

Despite the sweltering, miserable, suffocating heat of Mississippi in the summer, I still adore this time of year because I am able to grow a lot of my own food, watch hummingbirds (from a distance though because they're a little too much like big bees for my taste), and have daylight until after 8pm.  I also enjoy buying vegetables from an old man on the side of the road and going to the farmers' market.  Side note: This year, my husband and I are even running a booth at the market.  We bake and sell fresh bread.  It's...

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Deer Meal #1: The Deerburger Steak

I know you’re all anxiously awaiting a venison update, and I’ve now got one to share.  About two weeks ago, we got our deer.  I bet she was pretty, but, when she arrived to us (and by arrived, I mean that I picked her up under an overpass in nowhere Mississippi around 7PM—I think this makes the experience so much better), she had already been processed and came in vacuum-packed packages of ground meat, steak, roast, and cured sausage.  I quickly thawed out one package of the ground meat (probably about 1.5 lbs. or so) and proceeded to make “hamburger”...

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New Year’s Resolutions and Deer

I usually make a resolution or two each year, and just like everyone else, I fall off the wagon at some point on some of them, but others stick.  For instance, last year, I made these resolutions:  Eat fish twice a week Cook food from a different country each month Eat a mono-unsaturated fat (MUFA) with each meal Drink no more than two cokes a week  I failed pretty miserably at the second one.  I bought two cookbooks about food from Spain, the country chosen for January, and promptly stopped there.  The others I did fairly well at for most of the year.  I ordered...

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