Check the Pantry

On this week's Check the Pantry, host Jeff Lockwood talks mustard greens from the garden to the fermenting crock, and has his first experience with the Chinese pickle ya cai while making the Sichuan classic dan dan noodles. Produced by KBBI AM 890 in Homer, Alaska. First aired 08/04/19.

Check the Pantry goes evergreen this week. The Grog Shop's Patrick Driscoll leads a collection of gin lovers and haters featuring Grady Avant, Mel Strydom, and Pat Ahern through several different gins and gin cocktails, and host Jeff Lockwood makes a juniper-enhanced sauce soubise and a salmon and juniper sausage.

Check the Pantry goes evergreen this week. The Grog Shop's Patrick Driscoll leads a collection of gin lovers and haters featuring Grady Avant, Mel Strydom, and Pat Ahern through several different gins and gin cocktails, and host Jeff Lockwood makes a juniper-enhanced sauce soubise and a salmon and juniper sausage. Gin provided by the Grog Shop. Produced by KBBI AM 890 in Homer, Alaska.

Jeff Lockwood visits Carey Restino at Homer Hilltop Farm to learn all about growing lettuce from a small-scale farmer's perspective, and makes a Caesar salad with Teri Robl.

Jeff Lockwood visits Carey Restino at Homer Hilltop Farm to learn all about growing lettuce from a small-scale farmer's perspective, and makes a Caesar salad with Teri Robl. First aired 07/21/19.

Jeff Lockwood and Homer Truffle Company's Evangelina Briggs celebrate summer's heat with a look at the New World fruit that took the Old World by storm - the chili.

Jeff Lockwood and Homer Truffle Company 's Evangelina Briggs celebrate summer's heat with a look at the New World fruit that took the Old World by storm - the chili. Recorded at the KBBI Studios in Homer, Alaska, and at Homer Truffle Company. First aired 7/14/19.

It's field trip time. Host Jeff Lockwood heads to the shellfish farm Glacier Point Seafood for a lesson in mussel aquaculture from Greg and Weatherly Bates, and tries a couple of different ways to use leftover mussels. Produced at KBBI AM 890 in Homer, Alaska. First aired 05/23/19.

It's field trip time. Host Jeff Lockwood heads to the shellfish farm Glacier Point Seafood for a lesson in mussel aquaculture from Greg and Weatherly Bates, and tries a couple of different ways to use leftover mussels. Produced at KBBI AM 890 in Homer, Alaska. First aired 05/23/19.

On this episode of Check the Pantry, Jeff Lockwood and Teri Robl try to figure out what, besides pie, to do with all the rhubarb that takes over Homer in the early spring, and Patrick Driscoll waxes enthusiastic about its possibilities as a beverage flavor.