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This really has been the strangest spring. It rained and rained and rained all through June, leaving us berryless from our own garden and even from the farmstand. The rain has finally stopped and even though we lost the earliest berries to mold, it seems that we’re finally going to get a crop. We don’t grow [...] Yesterday was the “great chicken harvest of 2010″. A fantastic mix of friends, family and acquaintances came together to butcher 99 broilers for our freezers. It’s amazing how much faster and more confident we’ve gotten in this process over the past two years – once we all got our “muscle memory” back, and got the [...] I never liked asparagus as a child. I’m not sure why, there was just something about the taste. Sometime in the past 5 or 6 years I’ve discovered it and now I wait all year for it to come into season.We like it blanched, broiled, grilled, roasted, tossed with pesto and pickled. Oh, and wrapped [...] Mike and Jake are tired of duck hunting. Or rather, I think Mike is tired of corralling an energetic three year old lab so that he can duck hunt. They’ve taken up pheasant hunting as an option where Jake gets to run and run and run and Mike doesn’t have to get up at o-dark-thirty. [...] Michael Ruhlman recently wrote about the difference between foodie and cook. I am definitely a cook and only sometimes a foodie. Someone asked me today why it matters to us where our food comes from, who grows it, makes it, sells it, why we host the Dark Days Challenge. Around here we care about where our [...] I keep meaning to make Deb’s mac n cheese for dinner, but then failing to do so. Last night was pizza and tonight turned out to be brats and cabbage on the stove. The brats were left from our Fourth of July party and I quickly cooked them in beer and then cooked them off with [...] Tonight called for an easy filling dinner. The nights are getting colder and a lot of the harvest, at least what’s ripe, has come inside. So a bit of the neighbors’ purple onion, was combined with our spicy tomato peppers and a few sweet peppers. The potatoes were fried in leftover bacon fat with the peppers [...] |
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