Pretty platonic radishes are pretty, originally uploaded by laurenipsum.
Look! I made exemplary radishes!
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Pretty platonic radishes are pretty, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Look! I made exemplary radishes! Too many delicious meals in my blogs today to round up, but I will write ours up soon. Novella Carpenter’s non-published op ed on Thanksgiving. Novella is smart and awesome and bad-ass. Thank you, turkeys. Via Kimberly, a fantastic poem: Grace Rafael Jesús González Thanks & blessing be to the Sun & the [...] … with the obvious exceptions of the wine, salt, pepper. Chicken: grown by us. Beets, potatoes, onions, carrots, garlic, roasting under the chicken: grown by us. Butter for basting: made by us from cream from organic, happy Washington pastured cows from Fresh Breeze. Stock for helping veggies cook: made by us from [...] 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 [...] Amusing top-to-carrot ratio, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. I was picking carrots for dinner and I thought “Oh the tops are all small, I’ll gather several” and then I pulled up this tiny carrot top and I got this huge lovely carrot. My six-inch santoku knife included for [...] It’s getting brighter. Slowly. And the snow is starting to melt and maybe the hoophouses will uncollapse and the poultry will get to go outside and play. In the meantime, please enjoy the following reminders of summer, when you could wear shorts and dig potatoes out of warm dirt. Handfuls of potatoes!
We’ve been processing tomatoes, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. … a little at a time. We don’t have a pot that holds more than four quart-jars anyway so it works out. We have also slow-roasted and frozen a couple of pounds, and have dried some too. Pictured: Green Zebra; Ananas Noire; Black Prince; Brandywine; [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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