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Shelling peas on the couch, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. The shelling peas are coming on strong so we picked a big bowlful to shell while watching Buffy. I use the shells to make stock in case we need to feed any vegetarians, and I blanched and then quick-cooled the peas right in [...] Don’t ever let anyone tell you* that it’s too hard to eat local and organic in the winter! Look at this variety! Each of these photos is of a different vendor (except the turnips and the squash immediately following; those are from the same one). I didn’t take a picture of my haul [...] Harvest moon dinner, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Corn: garden. Artichokes: garden. Cabbage for coleslaw: garden. Bread: homemade. Burger: from our cow. Ripe Green Zebra tomato on the burger: garden. The Harvest Moon is full [...] I was sure it was just going to rain all through August (which it did) and into September and then for the rest of the winter, with no breaks. But it has warmed up and cleared up, and we have some tomatoes coming in after all. In fact, we harvested enough on Thursday to [...] 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 [...] 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 — [...] 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 [...] A while back, I emailed in response to a post over at (not so) Urban Hennery about needing folks to share a cow with, not expecting much response, since her post was a few weeks old at that point. But she replied almost immediately to say that they had three folks, and would love [...] I got dropped off at the market today, fortuitously! Co-workers were going downtown to see Iron Man (I was jealous but too busy to attend) and they pointed out at 5:45 that if they drove me to the ferry, they wouldn’t have to pay for the 15 minutes of parking they would owe if [...] The Seattle City Council passed an absolutely lovely resolution about local food incentives and planning policies to encourage urban gardening. Full text is here. Waves at Joe working in the city archives! The deal with a resolution is that it doesn’t actually *do* anything, but laying out that these are the values of my [...] |
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