If you’ve been reading for a while you know that while I think the USDA is a fine organization, I also live to flaunt their rules when it comes to pickling. Now I’ve taken it upon myself to infect my friend Mia (hi Mia!) with this belief, for which I’m sure I will come to [...]
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Preserving season has arrived with the red stained fingers and sweet ping of strawberry jam. I know there are people that will tell you to wait until berries get cheaper to make jam, but I’m not one of them. I think that the first berries of the season make the freshest tasting jam. I always make [...] Is there a moment when you realize that you are maybe just a bit insane? Is it when you pull multiple chicken carcasses, plus a couple more, out of the freezer to make stock? Is it when you realize that you have too many for your BIG stockpot and decide to split it up and make [...] I’ve really been enjoying sneaking into other people’s pantries the last week. Not only to see what other people are putting up, but to see what else they store in there. I thought I’d like to join in the fun. Our pantry isn’t as full as you might expect, but then most of the veggies and [...] I think I’m bonking. Or for those of you that don’t mountain bike for fun, I think I’ve hit the wall. I’m so sick of green beans that there’s a gallon in the fridge that have started to mold and another 2 gallons that I’m not interested in eating, freezing or pickling. I think I’m going [...] I’m not convinced that my tomatoes are going to ripen before we get the first frost. So on Sunday at the farmer’s market I checked in with one of my favorite farmers for his advice both on how to improve my chances and to hedge my bets. His advice was to top all of my plants [...] I did a lot of relaxing today. Not the lay on the couch kind, rather the kind that you get when you don’t have anything you have to do, just things you want or should do. I spent a lazy hour at the Mt Vernon farmer’s market, then I went to the co-op for ingredients [...] |
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