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The Midwest: El (Fast Grows the Weeds) embraced the food of her Lake Michigan ancestor’s and made pasties (short a, I think) for dinner last week. These meat and potato filled turnovers sported local and homegrown ground beef, side pork, potatoes, carrots, rutabaga, onion, celery and herbs with a greenhouse salad on the side. [...] Beef stew is a winter standby around here, and last week was no exception. I’ve found that the best way to make beef stew is long and slow in the oven. Even better is to cook it for hours one night and then eat it the next with cream biscuits straight from the oven with [...] This weekend was enough to make us think that spring had come to Seattle. But alas, it’s just a bit of nice weather that will be replaced by rain again later this week. We worked on the bathroom a bit this weekend, but we also just got out and enjoyed the sun. I pulled some winter [...] Ah, the joys of buying a house whose former owners fancied themselves to be contractors. About a month ago we set out to re-caulk the tub in our master bathroom. After letting it dry thoroughly for a month (we got busy and the downstairs shower turns out to be not that bad an option) Mike went [...] I was at Target the other night picking up a couple of things and found this great box. Just what I needed to get the seeds out of the shoe boxes they’ve been living in. In it are all of this year’s seeds, alphabetized by type. It’s always amazing to me that a) I can fill [...] The East: Jennie (Daftly Smitten) had an odd week due to all of the snow but still managed both Bittman’s polenta pancakes with local strawberry syrup (yum!) and Potatoes Anna. The potatoes also included apples, onions, mushrooms and a bit of cream. Hopefully life is returning to normal now. It might look monochrome, but it was a [...] Just a quick post before I dash off to work (finally!). Check out the cute that arrived at the Post Office this morning! It’s been a crazy morning. The call came at 6:30 from the post office, earlier than usual by more than an hour. I had to rush around setting up feeders and waterers and [...] |
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