My Take on the Kitchen Arts
There are a lot of websites about cooking out there. I’m not doing what they’re doing—the comprehensive recipe bank, the exotic tour through culinary traditions—I couldn’t create that kind of thing if I tried and …
Describe the Indescribable: Go
The other night, King Sturdy wasn’t tired at bedtime because he’d had a late nap, and also because he was scared of the lion and the tiger in his room. I am not about to …
Social Media
This is a picture of the cherry tree in our front yard. It is beautiful this time of year. The blossoms are extravagant bunchy pink bundles which rain down petals in the wind, until one …
Lessons Learned
I’ve only had a garden for three seasons. Granted I’ve wanted to have a garden since I was eight years old, so it’s kind of odd, realizing. Third year as a gardener here, coming up. …
Sitting with Death
In one week, our total animal-count when from six to two. Upon getting back from Christmas, we found three chickens dead and interrupted the raccoon in killing the fourth. We’d pulled into the driveway around …
Worm Eggs
Imagine my surprise when I picked out an old avocado shell to find it packed with worm eggs. Back story, I was rummaging through my worm bin for castings to add to a potting mix I …
He Doesn’t Mind the Soaker Hose
Garden update. The junk mulch is coming apart at the seams. The chickens broke in. Their wings are clipped now, but that doesn’t mean we always remember to close the garden gate. On other fronts, we’re seeing a bumper …
Plowman’s Dinner
This was dinner a couple weeks ago. Kind of an eclectic menu. Which is why I bring it up. Raw carrots. Raw radishes. Yogurt cheese. Bottle of wine. Pickled garlic. One whole chicken sourced humanely from …
Garlic, Pickled
If you’re wondering why anyone would ferment garlic, let me just say a toddler will pop five in a row and ask for more. “Garlic? Garlic?! Yesss?!!” Ingredients 10 heads garlic 32 oz. glass jar …
Why Have I Been Remiss?
It is June. Tomorrow, it will be July—so no excuses: not for the weather, and not for me. It appears my last post was published on March 20th, nearly a full season ago. And it …