CSA 2012, Week 7
This week’s haul was: dinosaur kale, scallions, tomatoes, green beans, pattypan squash, a pepper, green garlic, and potatoes.
CSA 2012, Weeks 5 and 6
Yeah, I’ve been bad about recording the CSA this year. Last week (another bad picture week)’s haul was: basil, new potatoes, baby carrots (real ones!), lettuce, frisee, zucchini, peas and scallions. This week’s haul (above) was: peas, lettuce, new potatoes, tomatoes (yay!), zucchini and yellow zucchini, carrots, and scallions. I also had my first harvest
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Further Adventures in Domesticity
My first canning of the summer season isn’t really seasonal, but had a definite purpose. In my quest for new and interesting sandwich ideas for dinner over the winter, I hit upon fig preserves as an idea for a sandwich spread. Do you know how expensive fig preserves are? And how much the BF ended
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CSA 2012, Week 5
We’ve had company this past week, hence the rapid fire catch up of posts that will shortly commence. And hence the lack of picture on this post, as when I finally downloaded all my pictures for the week, it turns out the CSA pictures I’d hurried to take because I had about five minutes between
CSA 2012, Week 4
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
CSA 2012, Week 3
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.
CSA 2012, Week 2
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
Ice Cream!
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,
Cooking Notes
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
Further Adventures in Domesicity
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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