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Category Archives: food (growing, cooking, preserving)
Day After Thanksgiving
Grey, rainy, chilly. SOUP half stick of butter 3 onions 1 head of garlic 1 bay leaf cook 10 minutes add chicken and veg stock simmer 20 minutes add crimini, portabello and button mushrooms add salt and pepper simmer 30 minutes add cubed potatoes simmer 20 minutes add chopped spinach simmer 10 minutes EAT
Today’s Food and Garden Work
warm and bright out, emptied all the rain barrels, stashed them upside down, and reconnected gutters raked leaves, emptied pots and containers, stashed them in shed Amie raked leaves too (cough) drank two large coffees (more milk than espresso) baked and pureed 5 sugar pie pumpkins will reserve puree for pumpkin bread (not for today), …
Independence Days – Weeks 12 and 13
Amie wowed at Times Square Missed last week because of sickness and a trip to the Big Apple – about which soon! Plant. Nothing, except for ongoing sprout experiments. Harvest. Herbs for drying, wheat grass from sprouter, chard and one or two carrots from garden. Preserve. Drying catnip, mint, sage, oregano, thyme. Drying apples. Baked …
Summer 2009 Tally and Notes for 2010 (#2)
This is the second in a series of posts tallying the Spring and Summer harvest in lbs, success, and satisfaction, and noting recommendations for next year’s Spring and Summer garden. Carrots The little carrots (Nantes) took a long time to grow (much longer than the packet advised) but in the end they shaped up nicely, …
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Drying Herbs and Saving Seeds
I dried a large mint plant (catnip) in my kitchen, hanging it upside down from the ceiling with a plate underneath for the dropping seeds. The leaves go into a ball jar for tea, the flowers go into a little muslin bag for potpourri, and the seeds into an envelope in my seed storage box. …
I Made Bread in 2 x 5 Minutes, No Kneading!
I love cooking but I’m intimidated by baking (don’t know why). But we are desperate for some good, organic bread that doesn’t cost $5 and that is right at hand in the kitchen and pantry. So when I read this Master Recipe for a boule from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff …
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Independence Days – Week 11
Independence Days goes on and on and, round and round. Not much to report this week: caught a bug and though it’s not getting worse, it’s not much getting better either, so I’m on a low fire here. Plant. Nothing. The mung bean sprouting didn’t go too well: I must be doing something wrong. Harvest. …
Summer 2009 Tally and Notes for 2010 (#1)
We went into the city to visit, among other things, the MIT Museum. Amie fell in love with Kismet, the emotional robot: And I came back with a bug. That’ll show me to come down my hill…Normally, when I feel that kind of pain in my throat, it’s bad news. But I kept up with …
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(Mostly) Homemade Halloween Costume
My first attempt at making a costume or even a piece of clothing. Amie chose the fabrics for the cape and the skirt and patiently tried it on at several stages. I sewed it together on my machine, sometimes laughing, sometimes crying, but mostly laughing. If there was a prize for the crookedest hem… But …