Closure

We’re eating the last of the stir fry made with the last of the year’s eggplants, and making basil with the almost-last of the basil (the last-last will go into green sauce (more or less like this). Thanks, summer (such as it was). Up next is a leek, kale, squash, and smoked salmon pasta [...]

First canning of the year!

Three quarts of pickled asparagus, one with extra spicy.

On broilers, or, Thank you, chickens

So, we really dropped the ball on keeping everyone updated on the broiler chickens via the website. We really intended to, but it turned out that 150 chickens took up kind of a lot of time. So, here’s a retrospective of their lives …

The chickens (affectionately known as nuggets) moved to pasture [...]

Dark Days Challenge: Prelude

After at least one (maybe two?) years of thinking about it, and deciding it would be too hard, and wishing I had done it, I’ve finally signed up for Laura at Urban Hennery’s Dark Days Challenge. From November 15 – March 31, eat one meal a week that’s as SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, Ethical) [...]

Diagonal dinner (halibut cheek with asparagus, garlic scapes, and fresh garden peas)

Diagonal dinner (halibut cheek with asparagus, garlic scapes, and fresh garden peas), originally uploaded by laurenipsum.

In a hot pan with bacon grease, started before the fish went on, went minced shallot and sliced asparagus and garlic scapes. We put the fat asparagus stalk segments in first, to get more cooking time [...]

Happy Solstice!

I couldn’t wait for the last holiday, but this one snuck up on me and I didn’t even prepare a holiday meal. All the same, we ate well, with ribeye steaks (we are using up the last of our cow from last year, in preparation for the new cow in a couple of weeks), [...]

On redundancy

The peas are coming in, and the mustard greens are flowering and covered with honeybees, and the beans are coming up, and the 100+ tomatoes have been potted up and are just waiting for ground to go into, and yet I haven’t been taking pictures. I took pictures of peas last year! This year’s [...]