This week’s haul was: peonies, garlic scapes, a cucumber, zucchini, basil, lettuce, kale, and Swiss chard. I used the basil in a tuna/white bean salad I made last night that we absolutely plowed through. I also harvested some of my peas earlier this week, along with some garden mint, and made a lovely spring lemony […]
This week’s haul was: peonies, Swiss chard, zucchini, lettuce, and beets. The peonies are looking particularly lovely, and the living room smells divine. In other news, my crisper is so stuffed, I’m having to come up with creative ways to store some of the produce. I’ve also had a harvest of sorts from the garden.
This week’s haul was: lettuce, Swiss chard, beets, zucchini, potatoes, and a peony. You’ll notice I’ve skipped right to week 2. With the crazy rain we had about two weeks ago, they didn’t dare set foot in the fields the first week of June, for fear of compacting the soil, so the start of the
So this weekend, I finally got to try out the ice cream maker we found in the basement. (We were cleaning out the repository of junk left by former tenants in anticipation of the electronic recycling day they had at one of the local schools a month or so back. I saw this,
You see this bread? The bread with the gorgeous crust and perfect interior? Piled with fresh mozzarella, baby arugula from my garden, roasted red peppers, and my homemade red onion marmalade? I made that bread (courtesy of Jim Lahey’s My Bread), and not only is it the best bread I’ve ever made, it’s some of
I managed to get back on the canning horse this weekend. These are Spiced Cranberries from Canning for a New Generation. They smelled absolutely divine cooking. But, the best part of this project was being able to use my new canner all the way through. I made eight jars, and actually prepped an additional one
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Well, I had my first full on canning disaster. I was really excited to use my new canner that my mother bought me for Christmas (in action above – it’s so nice and big!). I got it filled up with jars, and those sterilized, and I also got to use the new jar lifter I
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My contribution to Thanksgiving this year was this Maple-Buttermilk Pie. It’s far from the prettiest pie I’ve ever made (this was pie crust #4 – I don’t know what I did to piss off the pie crust gods – and after this photo was taken, the custard split), but it was delicious – it had
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This weekend’s contribution to the pantry was Vanilla-Maple Applesauce, which used up nearly all the rest of the apples I had from the CSA. What little I was able to sample was pretty darn good, though I think I’d add cinnamon and nutmeg if I made this again.
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The final apple CSA delivery had six types: Golden Russet, Yellow Bellflower, Black Oxford, Winter Banana, Rome Beauty and Black Gilliflower. I think the Black Oxfords are definitely the prettiest this week. This CSA has been really interesting. I got to try a whole bunch of apples types I’d never seen before, and it was
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