Last night Mike and I had dinner at Tilth. We were supposed to go to Phoenix for Christmas - but didn’t so that we can spend the whole week getting our house in order - and dinner at Tilth was our special celebration for just the two of us. Even though we’ll now be spending […]
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Turns out that you can cook a fresh ham roast just like you can cook a pork shoulder. Once I found that out from a very helpful internet friend, then the world was my oyster. Or at least my pork roast. I looked around for a while and finally decided to try a recipe from […]
Last week was tough for us, food wise, as I didn’t have time to go to the farmer’s market. I think the only really completely local dinner we had was eggs and bacon. The rest of the meals we cooked were between 50 and 75% local, but none were really the 90% I strive for.
This […]
This has been an out-of-sorts week around here. With my last minute trip home last weekend, I didn’t make it to the Saturday farmer’s market. Which left us with what was in the fridge and the few local ingredients I could pick up at the grocery store nearest our house. So our only all local […]
Dark Days Challenge, Week 7 recap
Posted in Dark Days on Dec 2nd, 2007
Whew, I have a new appreciation for what Laura does every week! Please let me know in the comments if I overlooked your Week 7 post. And thanks for your patience.
(Note: Some Dark Days participants have added Week 8 posts since I started recapping; This roundup includes “Dark Days Week 7″ posts published 11/25 to […]
Mystery eggs
Posted in urban chickens, personal, Dark Days on Nov 28th, 2007
There are a couple side effects of having a heat lamp with a red bulb in the girls’ roost box for warmth.
1. They’re party girls - up until all hours of the night
2. When they get really brave they even venture out into the run in the strange reddish light
3. We’re starting to get eggs […]
I hope that everyone had a great holiday! As I mentioned, we had a delicious dinner and have really enjoyed the long weekend. We also had many local breakfasts, lunches and dinners this week that I won’t bore you with. And of course, we finally opened our first jars of dill pickles - mmmm mmmm […]