As a third installment in the Provision Room series, we will talk about making your own mixes and spices for the pantry. I know we have all been often tempted to purchase readily made spice mixes at the grocery store. Even worse are the pre-packaged cake and muffin mixes. They are easily used and […]
“Our willingness to be free of the responsibility of preparing daily bread has now put the control of what we feed our families into the hands of huge food companies who have one goal in mind – money. As we have delegated the responsibility of milling grain and baking bread to others, it has […]
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ― Edith Sitwell As it is now in the dead of winter, so they say, I thought it would be a good time […]
“Run down and get the cinnamon, will you, Joey?” said Polly. “It’s in the ‘Provision Room.’” The “Provision Room” was a little shed that was tacked onto the main house, and reached by a short flight of rickety steps; so called, because Polly said, “It’s a good place to keep provisions, even if we haven’t […]
“Food security is not in the supermarket. It’s not in the government. It’s not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are not dependent on next week’s farmers’ market or […]
