Encore: What Fermented Drinks Can I Make?
Today we’re bringing you an episode of the podcast that originally went out in 2023. It’s one of our favourites, all about fermented drinks
#136 – Ancestral Habits and Lifestyle Outside of the Kitchen: what we do and why it matters
If we understand the importance of eating nose to tail, preparing bone broth and fermenting our grains, we understand that these ancestral principles for preparing food help our body to benefit more from the food we are eating and to avoid some of the damaging effects of industrial foods.
#135 – 800 Egg Recipes! Interview with Too Many Eggs author Mimi Smith-Dvorak
Eggs seem the simplest of foods, right? Why would someone write a book with over 800 egg recipes? We both have this book: “Too Many Eggs”, and it has blown our minds with its plethora of recipes, practical tips and fascinating history.
#134 – Freezer Meals: Ancestral Foods for busy days, post-partum, and make-ahead food prepping
Whether it’s anticipating busy days between work and school, heavy project days writing or working in the garden or canning, postpartum or surgery recovery period – there are many reasons why having a stocked freezer supplied with ready to go meals and ingredients is an enormous benefit to living an ancestral, locavore style life.
#133 – Home Milling Q & A
We get lots of questions from supporters and listeners about milling your own flour and thought it was about time we brought them all together a Q&A. This episode is packed with information.
#132 – A Week of Ancestral Meals: what we really ate
What was the last thing you ate? This is the question we always begin our podcast episodes with. The reason is because we always want to know what the other is fixing and cooking! What’s going on in your kitchen these days? What’s fresh and good? One of our earliest episodes recounts everything in our refrigerators at the moment!
#131 – Behind the Scenes (The Parts You Don’t Hear!)
Ancestral Kitchen Podcast is five years old! A birthday that, when we started this adventure in late 2020, we could never have imagined. In this episode we will finally take you inside the podcast.
#130 – Are We Ancestral Enough Yet? A Conversation with Jaycie of Hazy River Homestead & Ranch
How do you know if you are ancestral enough, and what really qualifies as “doing the thing”? Is there somebody out there with a list of ancestral things you need to be doing so you can “count” as being truly ancestral, or is it just a moving, non-linear line we are constantly progressing along with our intention and heart oriented the right way?
#129 – The Science Behind Properly Prepared Beans (and how to do it at home!)
Beans, Beans, the magical fruit, the more you eat, the more you absorb valuable minerals and proteins, improve your cardiovascular function and the health of your arterial walls as well as cholesterol and fat absorption, boost your digestion and gut bacteria health, and enjoy an array of bright and colorful foods – but what about that other, turbulent side benefit?
#128 – Unprocessed Foods: The Ancestral Pantry
What foods will you find in an ancestral pantry in a modern world kitchen? Today we will share some of the foods we store in our pantries to keep our regional, from-scratch meals on the table on a daily basis, as well as talk about modern tools that help us to turn some inexpensive, bulk raw products into value-added products.
#127 – How to Render Fat at Home (with Q&A)
Fat is one of the cornerstones of ancestral eating. But getting hold of good saturated fat is not easy and can be eye-wateringly expensive. Making it at home, as Andrea and I do, you can cut your costs incredibly and also feel sure of the provenance and processing. This episode will talk you through everything you need to know about rendering fat.
#126 – Living Like a Human with Tara Couture of Slowdown Farmstead
When Alison and I were starting this podcast, she asked who was on my dream list of people to talk to. I said Tara Couture of Slowdown Farmstead and today that is what happened. In an incredibly long and appropriately slow morning we sat down together to talk for the first time and it was like visiting with an old friend I had waited a very long time to see again.
#125 – Just Right: The Story of Porridge (& The Best Ways To Cook It)
Humans have been eating porridge (of which the American oatmeal is just one example) for, as you’ll hear, at least 32,000 years (that places it comfortably in the ‘paleo diet’ era!) Listen in to hear us cover just some of the history of this word and the comforting dish associated with it, as well as taking a tour of the many, many ways it is made throughout the world.
#124 – Five Family Meals Around Five Dollars Each: budget-friendly, ancestral peasant food
Everybody always wants to know – is a nourishing diet an elitist, privileged ideal, inaccessible to people without a huge budget, and only for the super wealthy? In this episode we are going to share five complete meals. Each meal serves a family of five, and each complete meal can be made for about $5USD (£3.71GBP).
#123 – Celebrating Real Pork – History, Sourcing & A Mouth-Watering Recipe Book
Sausages, bacon, crackling – good pork can be heavenly food. But both of us know that, sometimes, in the ancestral food world, pork is viewed as the poorer cousin to grass-fed beef or pastured chicken. That needn’t be the case and this episode will put real pork where it deserves to be – at the centre of our plates.
#122 – Why We Eat Local & Farm-Friendly Food
Why eat local? What if it isn’t easy? What if the things I want aren’t available? What’s the point? Alison and I have both considered these questions for ourselves and factored them into decisions that we’ve made about how we live our everyday lives.
#121 – 24 More Nuggets of Ancestral Wisdom!
Back in episode 117, we gave you 26 nuggets of ancestral wisdom. We’ve got more. Another 24 to be precise. And just because these are in this second episode doesn’t mean they are any less important! Over the next hour, on opposite sides of the Atlantic, with cups of tea in our hands we’ll be channelling our great-grandma wisdom and bringing you some ancestral truths relating to food, creativity, family, health, work and life.
#120 – Using Ancient Grains & Ethical Growing with Jade from Grand Teton Ancient Grains
Today I am so excited to introduce you to Grand Teton Ancient Grains! You can find this incredible family business online at www.ancientgrains.com and in this episode I got to sit down with Jade Koyl, the owner of this incredible family farm, and learn more about the way they feed the soil, their crop rotations, grain storage, and how their family uses grains in their everyday diet; as well as why they started growing them in the first place.
#119 – Why (& How) You Should Be Eating Chocolate with Marcos Patchett
In so many of our episodes over the last four years, we have explored how no food we eat is intrinsically ‘bad’. Instead, it’s what we as humans living in a rapidly globalising and industrialising world, have done to that food that causes problems. The topic of today’s episode, cacao, epitomises this.
#118 – At Least a Dozen Treats for Ancestral Kitchens
In this episode we share some of our favorite treats including a range of baked, custardy, dairy-free, gluten-free, or egg-free treats to keep you going all winter and into the spring. And the question I know which is burning in all of our hearts, is chocolate part of an ancestral lifestyle, can it be part of an ancestral life? Find out in this episode.