Harvests and meals

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 — [...]

Questions

Can we dry overripe shelling peas, which are too starchy to eat fresh, and use them like split peas? Is there any use for the fibrous but still fresh and juicy shells of the peas that did not get overripe? Make stock maybe? If one boy duck is picking on the other boy [...]

Because It’s Got a Picture of a Fracking Cat On It

Sometimes someone writes a really well-researched and well-written book on our relationship with food and sometimes someone draws a smart-assed web comic about the same thing.

overcompensating_catfood

It’s too early for summer! Jerks.

It was FREAKING HOT here today. I didn’t get around to unpacking the thermometer we bought today until about 6pm, at which point the thermometer still read 80°. Too hot for Laurens!

Every time we go to the farmers’ market, I come home with more starts. I think Garth is becoming frustrated with this, [...]