A moving video about going back to the start and developing a sustainable food system.
Never in my life did I think something made by Chipotle would make me sooooooo happy.

What do you think? Do we all need to go back to the start?

Once upon a time there was a potato.  He was part of the fingerling family and he had a very good life.  Or so he thought.  He was born in dirt, picked at a young age and ended up living with his 147 brothers and sister in a very cold box.  One fall day, his cold home started moving. It felt like an earthquake.  The potato was scared.  He looked at his brothers and sisters in fear.  Before his head could even turn he was falling, falling, falling.  As soon as his bum hit the stones on the ground, he was up, up , up.  And soon he was sitting down again.  This time on metal, surrounded by open air and big trees.  The potato had no idea what was going on.  He felt like an artichoke.

The potato enjoyed the smell of the air and was wondering where this adventure would take him.  Before long he would know.  The giant metal box that he seemed to be sitting on began to move and soon the wind was blowing in his eyes and the sweet fingerling could not see where he was going next.

When the metal box finally slowed down he found himself at some sort of market.  He followed the big potato’s into the market and was shocked in horror with what he saw.  A box of his sweet cousins were being held hostage.  Oh no!  Before he could make a move he was back on the moving metal box.

He found himself at a place called Dick’s.  He stayed on the box.  He wanted no part of that.  Fingerling’s do not play sports.

Soon the golden fingerling found himself across the street from what looked like his home.  However when he went in to the restaurant he couldn’t his family.  What was the young tater to do?

Go shopping of course.  Everyone knows that Nordstrom Rack cures the potato blues…He shopped to his hearts content and was so tired that all he could imagine was his:

Home sweet home.  ”I’ll be safe here,” the young fingerling thought.  Too bad he forgot it was the Chef’s day off***…muwah ha hah

***No potato’s were hurt in this story.  Well until the Chef cooked ‘em that is.

****If you really like me you will totally go buy my favorite (other than my husband) Chef’s new cookbook, Live to Cook. It is an absolutely stunning book and the last page is my favorite of any book I have ever read.  Also if you want to meet the Iron Chef in person or see my Chef show off his skillz (yeah I added the z, what?), I suggest buying some tix to the Fabulous Food Show. Symon’s signing autographs, cooking, and talking  & Johnny’s doing 2 demos.   And… Bobby Flay will be in town which means you should come to The Greenhouse Tavern cause that man loves our wings and I am guessing he can’t stay away…

Over the summer we stayed at a certain Iron Chef’s home before we moved. He was on a fantabulous vaca with his wife and asked me to take care of his amazing garden. He also asked the Chef to pickle some green tomato’s. The Chef being the busy man that he is, asked me to do it. I nervously obliged. Little did I know that I would have a very hard time finding out how to do it. The internet (my source for everything) would only tell me the cucumber pickling process. So I raised my middle finger to the interwebs and decided to choose my own adventure regarding pickling green tomato’s.

Here it is folks. Don’t quote me on anything and follow these instructions to your own avail. I take no legal responsibility if your pickled ‘maters taste crappy or worse. I am still waiting to see how mine did. The Iron Chef has yet to tell me…

Oh yeah, and if for some reason Food Network is reading this, I AM SO ready for my own show. Times are tough for the widow family (a little extra cash couldn’t hurt) and I really think that a cooking show about someone who has absolutely no idea how to cook is exactly what the American people need.

Cheers bitches.

If you are in need of the canning equipment, I sell the complete set in Widow Faire, my OpenSky store.

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Lamb Shoulder w/ White Beans & Rosemary

Thanks to Miss Martha.

Today is the FIRST day of my life that I absolutely loved something I cooked.  Seriously.  Loved it.

Watch your back Chef.

Chef Sawyer & Chef Symon

VERSUS

Chef Cosentino

Stay tuned tomorrow night when my favorite Iron Chef Mike Symon, as well as my favorite Chef (husband) square off against my favorite San Francisco Chef Chris Cosentino on IRON CHEF.  Whew!  That’s alot of chef~