#80 – Feeding Babies & Children Nutrient-Dense Food with Christine Muldoon

Feeding babies and children a nutrient-dense ancestral diet is something that many moms have questions about. Whether the questions are “how do I start my child off on the right foot” or “I have older kids and we are just coming to this ancestral diet now – help, how do I transition them to this good food!” – these are things that we think about. Here to help us today is Christine Muldoon, from The Modern Ancestral Mamas Podcast.

#79 – Butchering Poultry

We get a lot of questions about butchering chickens over here on the podcast, and those questions range from “I have a backyard flock and I would like to be able to cull a few hens and some roosters every year,” all the way up to, “We are planning to raise enough meat birds for ourselves and our neighbors and we need to know what tools we need to get started on that.” In this episode, I am going to do my best to get you comfortable with the idea of butchering a few hens on your kitchen counter, and reassure you that you have every tool you need, and it really is a simple and straightforward process – but there is a learning curve, and it is worth learning.

My Journey from Vegan to Ethical Meat by Meredith Leigh

Click here to download Meredith Leigh’s offering to our patrons, her ebook, My Journey from Vegan to Ethical Meat. We talk about this in the March 2024 KTC podcast and you can aso hear Meredith in Ancestral Kitchen Podcast #77. This is a book full of truth, passion and things we resonate with! Please note…

Kitchen Table Chats #33 – Exploring Flavour Combos, New Books, Veganism to Butchery

In this episode Alison and Andrea discussed turmeric drinks, Alison’s fried liver method, visiting the mineral springs at Bath, and some delightful books: The Flavour Thesaurus, Lateral Cooking, and A Cabin Full of Food. Then they shared about Meredith Leigh’s generous ebook gift to you, our patrons! Check the Treasure Trove to download a copy…

#77 – Veganism, Conscious Slaughter, Safe Meat Fermentation & Nitrates with Meredith Leigh

Meredith Leigh is an ex-vegan now butcher, a butchery teacher, an author, a kitchen experimenter extraordinaire and meat fermenter, co-founder of The Fermentation School and a mum. She has so much to share and this is an intimate and engaging conversation. We cover some really important questions including conscious animal slaughter, Meredith’s transition from veganism to ethical meat, the safety worries around fermenting meat and the one we get so many questions about: nitrates in meat.

Kitchen Table Chats #32 – Red Light, Home Pig Butchery, Sausage Combos, Supporting Yourself During Illness

In this episode, we talked about red lights in winter, home pig butchery, butchery collaborations, and mixing spices for sausage combinations; we discussed Alison’s winter sickness, medicinal foods, looking after yourself during times of illness and more. Some of the illness topics we discussed were cream of chicken soup, sauteed onions & butter, “Is the…

#76 – Essential Oils in an Ancestral Kitchen

The world of essential oils is an ancient and ancestral one. From the Mesopotamian valley where the Sumerians, Akkadians and ancient Hebrew tribes were distilling, trading and using oils to the apothecaries and wisdom of the ancient Chinese; from the dusty tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs like Tutankhamun to the Silk Road and spice merchants guiding camels burdened with precious ointments, oils, resins and salves.

#75 – Sandor Katz: Wild Yeast, Small Food & The War On Bacteria

If you asked both Andrea and I who’s inspired us the most we’d both put our guest today, Sandor Katz, right up there in our top couple of names. We’ve read his books, underlining phrase after phrase, we’ve taken his advice; we’ve made his ferments, so many of his ferments. He’s inspired, educated, and hand-held us both through our food fermentation journeys.

#74 – 14 Tips for Changing Your Food Habits

All of us have tried to change our food habits at some stage, most of us multiple times. Maybe, as you’re listening to this, you want to. It sounds simple – I’ll just stop eating this and start eating that. But it’s never that easy, is it?! Today, we’ll take a deep dive into food habits and offer you 14 Tips for Changing yours.

Kitchen Table Chats #31 – Tasting Training with Lizzy Filoramo

Thank you to podcast patron, and tasting expert, Lizzy, for gifting us her time and expertise for this episode. You’ll learn so much! Lizzy’s tasting worksheet can be downloaded from the treasure trove here: https://ancestralkitchenpodcast.com/2024/01/tasting-training-worksheet-ktc-31/ Apologies for the intermittent background noise in this episode – hopefully it won’t distract you from this fascinating interview.

#72 – All About Spelt Sourdough

Spelt is a wonderful, economical alternative to wheat. I’ve been baking with it for a decade now and I love its deep, nutty flavour, its flexibility and its digestibility – many people who don’t get on with wheat can enjoy spelt, especially if it’s in a sourdough loaf. Whether you’ve tried spelt or not, this episode will give you everything you need to know to get the most from this grain in your own kitchen.

Kitchen Table Chats #30 – Cooking During Busy Times/with Babies, ‘Natural’ Sugars, Pig Butchery & Coming Off Instagram

Thanks for your support! Today we cover the three questions below plus talk about coming off Instagram. Kelsey’s question: During busy seasons, pregnancy sickness, newborns, moving properties, busy work schedule, etc, what tips do you have for still cooking ancestral food? Megan’s question: It’s possible this has been covered somewhere and I’ve not seen it…

#70 – Fermenting Oats

Oats are one of my ultimate comfort foods. Golden, creamy, filling, tasty – what is there not to love? It’s been that way for me for a long time. Long before I realised that huge swathes of my English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish ancestors subsisted on oats, sometimes eating them three times a day for many generations.