cultivating a sustainable life
Our darling Princess is turning 2 today. We don’t actually know her exact date of birth, but she was about 9 weeks old when we adopted her, and this date is exactly 9 weeks before the day she came to live with us. Works for …
I shared the first one with you, so I thought I’d share the last one with you, too. I picked this tomato several weeks ago when it was still green, and it’s finally ready to eat. It will probably go into a sandwich for my …
I’ve been posting so much about preserving lately that this is starting to look more like a food blog than anything else. Well, I’m happy to report that I think I’m more or less finished in the preserving department, so I might actually talk about …
While reading my new favorite cookbook, The Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Herrmann Loomis, I spotted this recipe for Onion Marmalade (despite the name, it doesn’t actually contain any citrus peel). We are real lovers of onions around here (my son eats them on almost everything), …
There are a lot of different names for this, but Eggs in a Nest is what my mom always called it. Actually, my mom usually made hers in a muffin pan with the bread pushed into the cup to form a nest, but this is …
While the pumpkins were cooking down yesterday, I used the last of my pears to make a batch of pear ginger jam. I’d never had this particular combination before, but have heard good things about it, so I thought I’d give it a shot. Not …
The kids carved these very scary jack-o-lanterns yesterday morning, and after a full evening of scaring the neighborhood kids it was on to bigger and better things for this pair. The one on the left seems to know what I’ve got in mind for him. …
Halloween has always been one of my favorite days of the year, and that might be at least in part because Halloween means pumpkin seeds. They make all the work of carving those jack-o-lanterns worth the effort. Tossed with a little oil and sea salt, …
