Preserving Food with Fermentation

Thanks to my facebook friend Tim Hamilton for the link to this site http://www.foodrenegade.com/the-basics/fermented-raw/

Tim, this is such an amazingly data rich site. It’s native living at its best. Fermentation of food is something to try to add more valuable nutrition back into our eating habits. I’m 57 so I caught the tale end of home cooked meals as Great Grandma Irene and Grandma Hazel used to spend their days cooking breakfast, then preparing lunch and finally Dinner.

It took all day of preparation and clean up as every food and every dish was prepared from scotch by hand. No mixes, no dish washers, and no processed store bought except for the store bought natural ingredient which we then prepared at home.

If meat was bought at the store, the store butcher was part of your life as he was selling your family food needed to keep the family strong and healthy so local grocery stores had followers not just customers but regulars. Switching grocery stores was a heavy decision back then, unlike today where we shop different groceries for their special sale items.

Sorry to start on about the old days…

Anyway, here part of the data from Tim’s website link:
Every culture has a long tradition of fermented and raw foods — foods that provide for healthy intestinal flora and decrease the load on your pancreas and liver.

Sadly, because of today’s industrial food model, these traditional foods have morphed into something unrecognizable. Corned beef is no longer raw and preserved with salt and spices. Cheese is made from devitalized pasteurized milk. Bread makers rarely use real fermented sourdough starters in their so-called sourdough loafs. And homemakers hardly ever soak their freshly ground whole wheat flour overnight in buttermilk to create the light and fluffy pancakes and biscuits we love to love.

The modern equivalents of age-old fermented foods are nutritionally empty when compared to their historical counterparts.
Take grains, for example. Did you know that traditional societies either soaked, sprouted, or fermented their grains prior to consuming them? While the reasons our ancestors practiced this level of grain preparation are debatable, we do know that sprouting, fermenting, and soaking grains can increase vitamin and mineral content availability by 300-500%
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That’s quite the nutritional kick!

Books on subject:

Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods http://bit.ly/1BhkoX

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Amazon.com: Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (9780967089737): Sally Fallon: Books http://bit.ly/4jfqs4

 

Kunstfest – Traditional German Festival honoring the founding fathers of New Harmony with music, food, arts & crafts and family fun. Come enjoy New Harmony’s annual celebration of German Heritage with hand made arts & crafts, live musi…c and food. Located throughout the town of New Harmony, ride a horse drawn wagon through New Harmony’s historic streets. Enjoy live music and you enjoy traditional German food and desserts. If you have never experienced Kunstfest, you will want to make sure this year you do.

Photos of Kunstfest in New Harmony Indiana. I’m also going back to take more photos and perhaps video of the events.

My public photo album HERE

 

John Pilger – Obama and Empire

John Pilger – Obama and Empire

Author, journalist, film maker John Pilger speaks at Socialism 2009 www.socialistworker.org; wwwhaymarketbooks.org Filmed by Paul Hubbard at the Womens Building in San Francisco 7-4-09.

 

Farm Aid 2009

This is one of the reasons Farm Aid puts on a concert every year to help small farmers stay in business and be able to compete with the Factory farms by offering cleaner, healthier food. Factory farms are why we have so much salmonella — at one time you could actually use raw eggs in making Caesar salad and not worry about disease. Those were the days before chickens were crowded into buildings by the thousands with no sunlight and no room to even move causing stress and illness. All this illness is why factory farmed animals are fed antibiotics and probably why so many antibiotics no longer work on humans. So even if you don’t care about animal cruelty you should understand that factory farms are not the healthiest way to get your food. They are in business for investors and profit is all it is about. Every new factory farm puts a score of family farms out of business, and whereas factory farms generate money for investors that probably don’t even live in the same state, family farms generate money for the local economy. They spend money in their neighbors’ stores and communities.

Plus Farm Aid puts on a really good concert, this year it is on October 4 in St. Louis — you can listen to it online if you can’t get there.

The 2009 Lineup:
Willie Nelson
Neil Young
John Mellencamp
Dave Matthews
Jason Mraz
Wilco
Jamey Johnson
Phosphorescent

 

Obama’s Slide

You can read insightful posts like this one @ http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/johnrobb/

Lots of critics, like David Brooks, reflexively attribute Obama’s rapid slide to a push for more government.  Not even close.  In fact, that’s lazy thinking.

The rapidity of the slide is due to the Wall Street bailout.  Instead of punishment of the perps, we are getting bonuses.  Instead of reform to prevent gambling, we get more of the same (even worse, it is being done with an explicit government backstop).  Instead of relief for the middle class we get profiteering as the financial industry extracts everything they can from a tapped populace.

Nothing could have eroded trust faster than this.  All agenda items after this fiasco are/were forfeit.

 

18 of Nature’s Most Powerful Medicinal Plants

link shared by a friend on Facebook…

http://bit.ly/3yazA

From marijuana to catnip, there are hundreds of remarkably common herbs, flowers, berries and plants that serve all kinds of important medicinal and health purposes that might surprise you: anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, insect repellent, antiseptic, expectorant, antibacterial, detoxification, fever reduction, antihistamine and pain relief. Here are eighteen potent medical plants you’re likely to find in the wild – or even someone’s backyard – that can help with minor injuries, scrapes, bites and pains.*

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PS from Native Living WordPress;

Also you might want to Try Native Remedies Products for the whole family.

 

Love unLearning but would rather keep the free thinker mindset?

Contained within are the musings of a heathen, libertarian, tree-hugging, MMO gaming, personally conservative (for the most part, anyway) military spouse and homeschooling mom of two… fabulotasic sons. People like when things fit in neat, tidy boxes. Sucks for them! http://daughterofthemoon111.blogspot.com/

 

Video on Demand

Video on Demand

Here at the Hoosier Homestead we have tired of running to the video store to return rented DVDs. So we hook up our Macbook to the TV and stream movies we’ve bought or rented. Simple.

There’s plenty of place online such as Hulu that offer free movies and TV shows but when we want to watch the very latest in entertainment we us Video on Demand.

The time it saves running back and forth to the video store means more time for the garden and visiting with family, friends and neighbors.

yours in downshifing,

sovereignjohn

 

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Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (Paperback)

Review of Book

5.0 out of 5 stars Nourishing Traditions is a monument., March 26, 1998

By A Customer

Sally Fallon’s book is large in size and in its implications, valiantly sweeping away all the fog and ignorance that is endemic in the field of nutrition today. The book, focussing as it does on traditional (pre-modern) food selection and preparation, is revolutionary in all its common sense, prompting the reader to nod and say, “Yes, that’s really true.” It seems increasingly baffling to me that, amidst the daily deluge of ideas criss-crossing the landscape of the nutrition frontier, very few people acknowledge the contribution of 50,000 years of human history in the creation and maintenance of health. Well, Sally Fallon does. This book takes the reader to the highest ground yet. I particularly appreciated the excerpts from other books and journals, which are included liberally in sidebars throughout the book. It is a lot like reading several books in one, such is the cumulative scope of Nourishing Traditions. Of course, the recipes, all 700 of them, are fabulous. The book also has an excellent resource section to aid the reader in applying the principles laid out in the text. Finally, one comment on the book’s subtitle, “The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats”: This book does not tip-toe around the issues. The introduction, besides revealing many frightening (and rarely realized) facts about the state of current nutrition, also issues a call to action for people to release themselves from the collective trance perpetuated through advertising, through the common rationale that “we eat pretty well already,” and even through many of the currently popular trends today, including veganism. Prepare to be educated. Prepare to do some weeding. This is a big, bright, shout-from-the-rooftops cookbook that should be required reading for anyone who has the slightest doubt about what they eat. And for those, more likely, who have no doubts.

Nourishing Traditions

Sally Fallon

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Our Own?

You know when the United States engages in a WAR suddenly everyone should be Patriotic and Unite together. Yet here is a billboard sign outside a town during the Depression that states homeless men should keep on moving as the town can’t take care of its own. I thought we were all Americans? We sure are when they need people to die for this country. Yet when your starving or without health care, why then, you’re on your own.

When your hungry and homeless fend for yourself but when there’s a need for soldiers to fight and die why your suppose to be patriotic and join up, for your country. WoW. How much of a fool do they take us for?