Back in January, I seeded tomatoes because I confidently was going to harvest tomatoes in June (for the record, it has happened in the past).
Today is July 12; have I harvested a tomato yet? No. Emphatically and sadly no. I mean a “real” tomato, a handful of cherry tomatoes absolutely do not count. This is [...]
Yesterday I knew summer was here.
How did I know it? No, not because the temperature was - again! - over 90 (over 32 C) in the shade; 116 (47 C!!!) in the sun insisted the thermometer (wish I misread that). Not because the creek is drying up - although it is and we need rain [...]
Read More..>>I do not recommend trying to make ice-cream at a 4-H Camp without an ice-cream maker, without electricity, in 90 ° F weather (32 C) and in 20 minutes. It just does.not.work. The kids were good sports about tossing or shaking leaky bags full of ice, but it was a complete failure. They were also [...]
Read More..>>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..>>… 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.
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..>>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 [...]
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 [...]
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