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Inadvertent 100% homegrown meal
Posted by Lauren on 16 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Good News Everyone!, beets, carrots, comestibles, deliciousness, local food, pictures, potatoes
… 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 another chicken we grew.
It wasn’t even on purpose!
PS Roasted chicken + root veggies = it must be fall. Also, it’s been raining ALL DAY.
Update on the Straw Bale Root Cellar
Posted by garth on 25 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: harvest, laying by, potatoes, putting by
So we recently figured out how to turn on stats for the blog and it turns out that many people get here by searching for “straw bale root cellar,” which is something I posted about earlier after shamelessly stealing the idea from Throwback at Trapper Creek.
It's a Futurama joke. Sorry
Unfortunately, our straw bale root cellar failed miserably. While Throwback built her cellar in the barn we, sadly deficient in barns, built ours under the back porch and stretched a tarp overtop of it. End result was that critters and water got in resulting in the food and straw bales being eaten and rotted respectively. Bummer. But live and learn, food storage is a skill and, despite losing about 30% of what we stored over the winter I think we did alright. Mostly we don’t want anyone following our example thinking it’s a road to success.
And the great thing about gardening is that, even when food goes bad, it’s not wasted. It’ll either get fed to the poultry or composted. Either way it turns into healthy soil and healthy food. It’s just a matter of time.
Snowpocalypse is hard.
Posted by garth on 25 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: dropstone farms, harvest, pictures, potatoes
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!
Attentive readers will recognize Lord Potato. He was regally delicious.
Also, Mr. Klassy may have laid an egg. Rooster fail.
Burrito fixins
Posted by Lauren on 23 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: cabbage, comestibles, pictures, potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini
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 top. Yum.
