Yogurt is for dessert too.
After a 15+ year hiatus, I am again making yogurt. Easy, tasty, low-tech. Did I say easy? Since I much prefer eating yogurt to drinking milk, I have been making at least two quarts of yogurt a week. Love it! As was explained here: heat the milk (if the milk [...]
Read More..>>Serve good food. Serve fresh food.
Use real silverware and a real cloth napkin. Make it pretty.
Be imaginative in your use of containers - avoid plastic.
Print a menu and tuck it in the box.
Have fun.
Comments(7) Among the pleasure of the early spring garden is the hunt for the wanted volunteers: dill pokes its elongated slim first leaves among the sowed arugula while cilantro is coming up now in the pea bed - both bright green, brightly flavored, their unmistakable pungency released when you crush or brush them. Both are [...]
Read More..>>It’s time to start hardening off the babies. At least, for those of us in the Northern Piedmont (and in the mid-Atlantic area). Yep, time to start hardening off the hardy annual vegetables that were lovingly started indoors. That include you people who took one of my “Starting The Veggy Garden from Seeds” workshops [...]
Read More..>> Comments(2) Transplants: 350! (more or less); about 200 planted on Monday and 150 planted ten days ago. I have never been successful with the sets (mini-bulbs) planted in the spring: they hardly grew bigger than they start at! So, this year, I bought (more expensive) transplants: 2 bunches from our local farm store (1 red, 1 [...]
Read More..>>We are calling them girls (Gael, Gladys, Gwen, Gali, Gudule etc etc). There might be a boy in there - won’t know for sure for a few weeks. He’ll be Gaston, or Gus, or Gaspard - haven’t quite decided yet.
The girls are still in the brooder and not out yet (too cold - got down [...]
Read More..>> Comments(4) Spring is blue and red: blue clear sky and red maple flowers.
Indeed the maples are blooming now, the earliest single species source of nectar and pollen for our bees.
Read More..>>Finally - rain. Gentle, slow, soft, over the course of a few days.
A the end, it did not add to that much altogether - maybe 1/2 inch (as measured by my hand thrust in a bucket that was left out). Nonetheless, it was rain in what has been a cold and dry winter with hardly [...]
Potatoes fried in duck fat, with garlic & parsley, a very fresh green salad (with not a leaf of lettuce in sight) topped with a little bit of duck breast - a perfect lunch for this blessedly rainy Sunday.
Obviously, he thought so too (and had an intense lemon tart with coffee for dessert).
This meal [...]
Something softly went through the hollow last night, dropping huge handfuls of wet snow all over. The snow on the ground was gone by mid-morning, but wads of sticky whiteness remained in shrubs and dry grasses - looking like cotton candy.
Meanwhile, inside under the shop lights, seeds planted earlier this month have germinated, true leaves [...]
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