The EssentiaList

Food:

Moved from Home, Farm, Ranch

See also:

• Food Preservation, below
• Cold Storage
• Files: Culturing & Fermentation

ESP Files:

• EssentiaList Handout: Storage of Produce (128 kb pdf) includes tips for storing fruits, vegetables and grains, and cold storage options for root veggies
• The EssentiaList: Sourdough Handout (pdf).
• Food Safety and Pasteurization
• Rendering Lard in a Crockpot (pdf)
• The EssentiaList: Homemade Apple Cider (4-page pdf includes soft and hard cider recipes)
• Sweet Cravings Part 1: Natural Sugar Sweeteners (5 pages)
• Sweet Cravings Part 2: Corn Syrups, Agave Nectar & Aguamiel (6 pages)
• Sweet Cravings Part 3: Stevia, Xylitol and Artificial Sweeteners (6 pages)

Links & External Sites:

• Azure Foods (Dufur, OR), a bulk and natural foods store.  Browse online or order a catalogue.  Order locally through Flathead Co-op to take advantage of bulk pricing. Contact Linda Barone, PO Box 4063, Whitefish 59937; 756-9594, starpathmontana(at)yahoo(dot)com.
• Eat Wild.com about pasture-raised food and facts.
• Food Routess and Buy Fresh Buy Local (AERO-MT)
• Fridge-Less Living, from Mother Earth News includes root cellars, gardening concerns, preservation, catalogues and supply sources, etc.
• Grass-fed beef in Montana:   Montana Organic Producer’s Co-op including list of Ranches that will ship grass-fed meats, such as LaCense Beef(Dillon),  Grapevine Ranch (Billings).  Grassland Beef online store(AKA US Wellness Meats)
• Michael Pollan Debunks Food Myths: an interview after release of his book “In Defense of Food”
• Say NO to Plastic Bags (from npr.org and the Pocono Record).
• Raw Milk: Panacea or Poison, from npr.org
• Supermarket Secrets:  videos on supermarket food quality (from England): also Supermarket Secrets, Part 2

Food Preservation

See also:

• Files: Putting Food By
• Files: Culturing & Fermentation

ESP Files

• Gathering Summary: Putting Food By, July 22, 2009
• Gathering Summary: Fish Preservation by Smoking & Canning, Jan 27, 2010

Books

• Sweet and Hard Cider by Annie Proulx and Lew Nichols 1995
• Keeping Food Fresh: Old World Techniques and Recipes by The Gardeners and Farmers of Terre Vivante 1999
• Wild Fermentation, by Sandor Elix Katz, 2003

Brining:

ESP Files

• Corning Beef (Salt Brine) (104 kb, written by Cat for Edible Missoulamagazine)
• Gathering Summary: Fish Preservation by Smoking & Canning, Jan 27, 2010

Canning:

ESP Files

• The EssentiaList: Pressure Canning at Home: Info & Sources (132 kb pdf)
• The EssentiaList: Hot-Bath Canning at Home: Info & Sources (120 kb pdf)
• The EssentiaList: Home Canning Tables (Pressure & Hot Bath)) (240 kb pdf)
• Gathering Summary: Canning & Dehydrating Foods
• Gathering Summary: Fish Preservation by Smoking & Canning, Jan 27, 2010

External sites

• Home Caning Guide from Montana Extension Service; Flathead County Extension Office

Culturing (Dairy):

see also: Files: Culturing & Fermentation

ESP Files

• ESP Gathering Summary: Making Cheese & Tofu (152 kb)
• The EssentiaList: Yogurt & Kefir, from Powdered Culture (144 kb)
• The EssentiaList: Using Kefir Grains (136 kb)
• Making Yogurt & Kefir at Home (ESP blog post)

Dehydrating:

ESP Files

• Gathering Summary: Canning & Dehydrating Foods

Fermenting:

see also: Files: Culturing & Fermentation

ESP Files

• The EssentiaList: Pickling & Lacto-Fermentation Introduction, Sources, & Recipes (112 kb)
• The EssentiaList: Sauerkraut Recipes, including Melanie’s recipe (148 kb)

Jam Making:

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Jerking:

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Pasteurization:

ESP Files

• Food Safety and Pasteurization

Salting:

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Smoking:

• Gathering Summary: Fish Preservation by Smoking & Canning, Jan 27, 2010

Storage of Produce:

ESP Files

• The EssentiaList: Winter storage of fruits and veggies; Grain storage (128 kb pdf)