We may have two feet of snow on the ground, but the early tomato seedlings have germinated.
I do like to pick my first tomatoes in June, so I plant a few seedling in late January. They germinate in early February, and I keep up-potting them into bigger pots until it is time to plant them [...]
Cost: $100 (mostly recycled materials).Value? priceless.
After a hard day of trampling paths up & down the hill or shoveling the 22″ of snow that have graced us since Friday (or plowing snow for Keith, including the road and the driveway of several neighbors), we have worked quite an appetite. Tonight dinner is homemade pizza (the [...]
Read More..>>A dish of oxtail soup is a thing to share with those you love. Or not. (depends how much you love them)
What’s not to like about oxtail?
It’s traditional farm fare, a simple country dish with robust complex favors - many parts of the world have perfectly succulent ways to use oxtail as a matter of [...]
I had never eaten homemade sauerkraut until I started to make it last year.
I can’t say that I really like the store-bought canned stuff - but I really like a Reuben sandwich, and you do need sauerkraut for that.
In my quest for more local homegrown or homemade food and in learning new (to me) [...]
Read More..>>2 feet of snow last week-end, temperatures in the lower teens (F/ about -12 C). I have not been in the hoophouse for about a week, and frankly I was not sure how it was going to be in there. Would I have mush? It after all, got cold quite suddenly after a long mild [...]
Read More..>>Cornmeal is simply not used enough in sweets.
There, I said it: eat more cornmeal.
I like soft polenta (mush) and hard polenta (either - like oatmeal - taste sooo much better when made with milk instead of water). I like cheesy grits and creamy polenta. I like it with bits of smoky bacon and fried fresh [...]
Read More..>>I have to confess that I do not have the proper respect for Thanksgiving.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy that food-centric holiday. It’s just that - not having grown with it - I am not enough imbued with its traditions, and I am trying to make it… well… gasp! too… French. You see, many of [...]
I love fresh oysters. When we lived in the city, we used to go to the wharf for Christmas and New Year, get fresh oysters in their shell, mud from the Chesapeake bay still clinging to them. Later that day, Keith would scrub them clean, open them and arrange them on trays of ice. A [...]
Read More..>>Last evening I saw the man in the moon. In the incredible Hunter’s Moon that hanged, powerful and enormous, for a short while. As I was driving home, the sun sinking behind the mountains at my back , the majestic Moon was rising in the Eastern sky, capturing and reflecting the dying light from [...]
Read More..>>The English call them marrows, and - at least according to Agatha Christie (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, if I remember correctly) - take great pride in growing the zucchinis to very large vegetables. They call young zucchinis “courgettes” (the French word for zucchinis) and the big one “marrows”. In the US, we call them [...]
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