I’m cooking heart, again. . It’s become a ‘thing’ now. When @farmandhearth and I start a podcast, we always ask each other what the last thing we ate was. More than half the time, I say heart. . That’s because heart is good on so many many fronts. . It’s inexpensive: You pay less per kilo for a heart from a local, ethical farmer than you would for muscle meat wrapped in plastic from a factory farm. . It’s easy to cook: Wash it and put it in the slow cooker with water and a few root veg. . It gives and gives: It’s big hence it’ll do you many meals. It stays in the fridge and will freeze really well. . It’s tasty: It’s deep-flavoured muscle-meat, easy to carve and great served hot, cold, on its own or in stews. . This beef heart, just out of the slow cooker, is from the wonder that is Flavio @valledelsasso. I buy at least one a month and it lasts my family a good week. . If you have any questions on cooking heart this way, ask away.

I’m cooking heart, again.
.
It’s become a ‘thing’ now. When @farmandhearth and I start a podcast, we always ask each other what the last thing we ate was. More than half the time, I say heart.
.
That’s because heart is good on so many many fronts.
.
It’s inexpensive: You pay less per kilo for a heart from a local, ethical farmer than you would for muscle meat wrapped in plastic from a factory farm.
.
It’s easy to cook: Wash it and put it in the slow cooker with water and a few root veg.
.
It gives and gives: It’s big hence it’ll do you many meals. It stays in the fridge and will freeze really well.
.
It’s tasty: It’s deep-flavoured muscle-meat, easy to carve and great served hot, cold, on its own or in stews.
.
This beef heart, just out of the slow cooker, is from the wonder that is Flavio @valledelsasso. I buy at least one a month and it lasts my family a good week.
.
If you have any questions on cooking heart this way, ask away.

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Just turned out this sourdough polenta bread from the tin. It was made with sourdough barley polenta that I cooked up for breakfast and will give us easy-to-fix meals this weekend and into next week. . Check the link in my profile to see a video on how to make sourdough polenta and polenta bread with whatever grain/s you fancy, along with the ever-so-simple sourdough porridge. . This weekend my kitchen will see the fermentation of two sourdough spelt loaves, a sourdough millet and sorghum loaf, a sourdough rye loaf, some rolled oats, some sowans, and my usual sauerkraut, garlic and water kefir. That’s a lot of bubbles! . Tell me what you’re fermenting this weekend! I’m taking Sat/Sun off here and I’d love to come back Monday and hear about bubble action :-)

Just turned out this sourdough polenta bread from the tin. It was made with sourdough barley polenta that I cooked up for breakfast and will give us easy-to-fix meals this weekend and into next week.
.
Check the link in my profile to see a video on how to make sourdough polenta and polenta bread with whatever grain/s you fancy, along with the ever-so-simple sourdough porridge.
.
This weekend my kitchen will see the fermentation of two sourdough spelt loaves, a sourdough millet and sorghum loaf, a sourdough rye loaf, some rolled oats, some sowans, and my usual sauerkraut, garlic and water kefir. That’s a lot of bubbles!
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Tell me what you’re fermenting this weekend! I’m taking Sat/Sun off here and I’d love to come back Monday and hear about bubble action 🙂

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