Recipes
CLASSES: Planning ahead for Home Provisioning
When it’s winter chill outside, it is a good time to plan ahead for those food preservation classes you want to have under your belt: Pressure Canning Chicken, and Dry Beans for those shelf-stable protein-based foods you want to add…
Indigo House Canning Class Schedule
I know it’s a full month away but the tomato and peach harvest will in full swing before we know it! I’m really looking forward to teaching canning classes again! These classes fill quickly so to sign up please click…
Indigo House Celebrates 3 Centuries of Southern Women Chefs
There is room at the table! Fri, June 18th and Sat, June 19 each have one table for two ready for a reservation! Our dinner will introduce you to women in a 1770s kitchen and to the enslaved cooks in Mary…
Chicken shares at Indigo House
Here at Indigo House I’m going back to being a chicken farmer! I’m starting with a batch of 75 Jumbo Cross Rock meat bird chicks. We have had nothing but delicious success with this variety of broiler since we first…
Leni’s Hummus
Specially for Chris – here’s my recipe for basic hummus. It’s more a guide than strict amounts but that’s how I most often cook. I see at the store that one can buy ready-made hummus with lots of different…
“It Takes a World to Make a Meal: The Human Costs of Feeding Virginia’s Elites”, a talk at VCU
On Wednesday Feb 5 I gave a talk “It Takes a World to Make a Meal: The Human Costs of Feeding Virginia’s Elites.” at the VCU Tompkins-McCaw Library for Health Sciences in Richmond in conjunction with the traveling National Library…
