Ancestral Kitchen
Alison Kay & Andrea Huehnerhoff
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#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:We…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#120 - Using Ancient Grains & Ethical Growing with Jade from Grand Teton Ancient Grains
Khorasan rye, spelt, emmer, millet, quinoa - what do all of these delicious foods have in common? They are considered ancient grains, grasses harking back to a time before industrial development and…
#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…
#118 - At Least a Dozen Treats for Ancestral Kitchens
Ancestral food is not just all livers and bone broth! You not only can find amazing treats and desserts in the ancestral food world, but this is where delicious, comforting goodness was invented. The…
#117 - 26 Nuggets of Ancestral Wisdom!
As you know, if you’ve been cooking ancestrally for any length of time, the ancestral mindset does not stay in the kitchen! Some of us come to this as part of a health journey, already thinking about…
#116 - Leftovers and Scraps in a Frugal Ancestral Kitchen
Leftovers again? Oh good, I can’t wait! I love it when half the work is already done. In this episode we talked about leftovers as well as scraps and items that are often discarded in home kitchens.…
#115 - Four of Our Favorite Easy, Ancestral Meals
When life is overwhelming or busy, or I don’t know what to cook - What are a few simple meals I can have in my back pocket? As a person new to ancestral cooking, how do I know if my easy meal is…
#114 - Nourishing Traditions Read-Along, Eating Everything on Your Plate & Handling Nay-Sayers
Every month we record an entire extra podcast episode which goes up on our private podcast feed, Kitchen Table Chats, for our supporters to enjoy as a benefit of their financial support. In these…
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