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And it wasn’t even that bad! I picked a gallon of blackberries on Saturday and on Sunday we turned it into … well … it was supposed to be jam. I didn’t put as much sugar as it called for because I tasted it and it was sweet enough partway through the sugar [...] Burrito fixins, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Stew meat (from our quarter cow) was braising in the oven. Garden potatoes boiled like normal. Garden zucchini and garden tomatoes grilled briefly. All combined in a delicious tortilla with a sauce of sour cream + goat yogurt (island grown!) plus garden basil. Garden cabbage on [...] Unfortunately, our zucchini and other summer squash plants are neither as prolific nor as numerous as those of Barbara Kingsolver, whose chapter on squash in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle I just finished. We appear to be further hampered by the wet spring and summer we’ve had here, unless I am doing something else wrong that [...] Colors that tomatoes might be: orange; yellow; red.* See the whole set (reproduced here in its entirety). Click on any picture to view it in Flickr. Orange cherry tomatoes get some color, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Yellow Pear tomatoes get some color, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Oregon Cherry tomatoes get some color, originally [...] So, network issues at work provided my with a day to research various greenhouse options. We’ve had such success with the hoophouses that I’m really fired up to get a real greenhouse going in the spring. My first inspiration came from the Westside Gardener whose site is full of Cascadian goodness. Minus incidentals, this [...] Here are some things we have harvested, and some meals we have made from them! Peas: omelettes. frittata. In a bag in the freezer. Also attempting to dry some, and some pods became stock. Chard: Grilled chard salad (which we modified when I couldn’t find edamame I thought I had in the freezer — [...] Impromptu harvest, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Garth’s mom was over and we were showing her the beets and the carrots, and we decided to pull some up for dinners and [...] Lord Potato and his underlings, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. I had some chicken stories to tell, but there really are other things going on in our lives, which isn’t evident from the past few posts, so I will discuss those other things instead. So here is a list of things I meant to write about when they were current, and didn’t. We [...] So in response to Monday’s semi-cryptic post, the full story is that Monday I went over to Shannon’s (of Red Barn Farm) place and helped her process the batch of birds from which we’d purchased a half-dozen a few weeks before. I emailed to see if we could help with the processing and the [...] There are 64 fewer chickens in the world now than there were this morning. I didn’t bust a single gallbladder or cut myself once. I’m pretty pleased. Word of advice, prior to gutting chickens, cut your fingernails as short as possible. |
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