Until now!
Thank you, Henrietta Torpedo!
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
First Egg
I have been lamenting the fact that I have seventeen chickens, several at "point of lay," and not a single layer!
Until now!
Thank you, Henrietta Torpedo!
Until now!
Thank you, Henrietta Torpedo!
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Autumn has brought on a new kind of crazy obsession for me.
Not all of the product is seen here.
I don't know if it's because of my summer blitz of planning a wedding and mourning the loss of pets (on top of earning a livelihood and attending grad school full time), but barely anything got done around the house or around the garden. Then, fueled by CSA, farmer's market, and 4-H garden tomato surpluses, the water bath canner and the accompanying supplies came out of the basement and into the kitchen. I have spent many, many hours canning crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, six types of salsa, two types of ketchup, BBQ sauce, tomato jam, green tomato relish and salsa verde, and hot sauce.
Then there were peaches. More salsas, a mango peach habanero sauce, peaches in booze, and vanilla peach butter.
And, with tomatoes the 4-H garden isn't using this week, I made pizza sauce and ready made spaghetti sauce.
I took end of the season black plums and made Chinese plum sauce. Tomorrow I am making Harissa. I'm hoping to scrounge up more tomatoes soon, and make taco sauce.
And I feel vindicated, absolutely vindicated in all this, after recently reading "Salt, Sugar, and Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us" by Michael Moss. I want significantly less processed foods in our house, particularly condiments (these and in our ice cream is where you'll find the majority of the commercially processed crap in our house).
I even made massaman curry paste from scratch the other night and froze it to use in Thai Curry sauces. I'm a machine.
It was Husband's (still weird calling him that) birthday this past weekend, and I made a tangy beer mustard and soft pretzels for the party. Because screw store bought crap!
Admittedly, his cake was a box mix. (I am by no means perfect, people!) I'm sure by this time next year, I'll have created my own jars of ready-to-make mixes.
Now, back to my homework. After... I put this photo up of our newest family member, Snow White.
She's a three month old German angora bunny! And she's ready for a shearing!
Not all of the product is seen here.
I don't know if it's because of my summer blitz of planning a wedding and mourning the loss of pets (on top of earning a livelihood and attending grad school full time), but barely anything got done around the house or around the garden. Then, fueled by CSA, farmer's market, and 4-H garden tomato surpluses, the water bath canner and the accompanying supplies came out of the basement and into the kitchen. I have spent many, many hours canning crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, six types of salsa, two types of ketchup, BBQ sauce, tomato jam, green tomato relish and salsa verde, and hot sauce.
Then there were peaches. More salsas, a mango peach habanero sauce, peaches in booze, and vanilla peach butter.
And, with tomatoes the 4-H garden isn't using this week, I made pizza sauce and ready made spaghetti sauce.
I took end of the season black plums and made Chinese plum sauce. Tomorrow I am making Harissa. I'm hoping to scrounge up more tomatoes soon, and make taco sauce.
And I feel vindicated, absolutely vindicated in all this, after recently reading "Salt, Sugar, and Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us" by Michael Moss. I want significantly less processed foods in our house, particularly condiments (these and in our ice cream is where you'll find the majority of the commercially processed crap in our house).
I even made massaman curry paste from scratch the other night and froze it to use in Thai Curry sauces. I'm a machine.
It was Husband's (still weird calling him that) birthday this past weekend, and I made a tangy beer mustard and soft pretzels for the party. Because screw store bought crap!
Admittedly, his cake was a box mix. (I am by no means perfect, people!) I'm sure by this time next year, I'll have created my own jars of ready-to-make mixes.
Now, back to my homework. After... I put this photo up of our newest family member, Snow White.
She's a three month old German angora bunny! And she's ready for a shearing!
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