We eat plenty of fast food here - especially for lunch. Don’t believe me? well… take a look at the picture of one of our not unusual lunches.
Green salad from the garden (Pick early in the morning, wash, dry, refrigerate, ready to go in seconds) with hard boiled eggs from the hen house (hard boil, [...]
Read More..>>I know it’s a little wild looking.
but:
the raspberries are very strong and lush despite a very dry April (and I managed to put a netted trellis for them, so the branches stay upright, hopefully making harvesting easier)
the Shirley poppies are absolutely gorgeous - although they have been allowed to take over the asparagus bed. The [...]
Aren’t they beautiful?
They are earlier than the last few years, I may be able to pick in late May. While winter was cold and snowy (which currants like), the ground was protected from extreme cold by the blanket of snow - something we don’t have very often in Virginia. So the ground may actually have [...]
Read More..>>… start a vegetable weekly subscription and make Mongolian-style sauce (lots and lots of it!)
I certainly grow more than we can eat - and we eat lots of veggies! Yet I don’t grow enough for selling at a Farmer’s Market or to a restaurant. But even with all the preserving I do, it’s too much [...]
Roasting a whole lamb in the spring is the epitome of the outdoor party (although a whole pig comes pretty close too).
We just did that this week-end for the benefit dinner organized by Flavor Magazine to benefit the Rappahannock Food Pantry.
Harvesting honey is - I hope - going to become one of our spring rituals. We just harvested out first honey: four medium frames, two people working two hours give 8 pints of honey (4 liters) or 12 pounds.
We are about to start our 3rd year with the bees. Last spring, at the beginning of [...]
Bacon’s my friend (especially the kind that comes from a pastured pig).
A few weeks ago I read Brett Laidlaw’s post on Trout Caviar about smoking bacon. He wrote it just about 2 years ago, but I only recently read it.
I knew we had to try it.
We did.
It just so happened that I had two [...]
Read More..>>I simply love this time of the year when the days are clear, the nights are cool, the maples are blooming, the buds are swelling on the trees, and so many green things - good to eat too - are poking out of the ground, or just starting to grow for real.
Witness:
The acid green of [...]
Read More..>>A month ago, we were under 2 feet of snow with night temperatures in the single digits. This week we garden in short-sleeve shirts and harvest mache, baby lettuce, just-emerging sorrel, baby arugula, escarole and… spinach - lots and lots of spinach. Finally!
The spinach was not planted in the hoophouse but outside. Last spring we [...]
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