Posted in Building Community, Giving, Locally grown, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Jun 30th, 2010
A few things from this morning’s harvest. Carrots, beets, 3 types of kale, lots and lots of chard, and buckets full of sugar snap and snow peas.
So grateful for the constant stream of Teaching Garden volunteers today. Folks were working hard from 9:30 am straight through to 4:30pm. We’re feeling very, very blessed. A [...]
Posted in Building Community, Homemaking, Learning, Locally grown, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Jun 26th, 2010
It’s late June at Salt of the Earth Urban Farm (home of the BCS Teaching Garden)! Finally, some warm weather (mid-upper 70’s) has settled in (the tomatoes, summer squash and bush beans look much happier) and everything is flourishing.
The harvest is increasing – every week, we are taking a few dozen cartons of organic [...]
Posted in From my kitchen, Homemaking, Locally grown, Moderation and Economy on Jun 23rd, 2010
A while back, Sunset Magazine called for summer recipe submissions with 5 ingredients or less. I sent in a recipe, and they published it in the July 2010 issue!
It’s a super easy fruit salad recipe based on a dish I make all the time in the summer. (It’s a great dish to take to a [...]
Posted in From my kitchen on Jun 22nd, 2010
Larksong’s Simple Stone Fruit Cake
1 stick unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup white flour
1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
approx 3 -4 apricots, plums, pluots, etc, washed and sliced, or a large handful of pitted, halved sour cherries
sanding sugar to sprinkle on top (about 1 Tbsp)
Directions
1)Preheat oven to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2010
Posted in Building Community, From my kitchen on Jun 14th, 2010
The other night we tried out a new pizza recipe from Good Eat’s guru, Alton Brown.
I really liked that the dough is made the night before and allowed to set-up in the fridge – this way, when I’m in a hurry to make dinner the next night, I can quickly take out the dough, [...]
Another baby wave! Lots of friends are having babies in the next several weeks, so every spare moment, it’s knitting, knitting, knitting (I’ve even been knitting in church on Sundays! I actually absorb the sermon better – multitasking prevents the mind from wandering!)!
My knitting tends to go in a seasonal rhythm – winter babies always [...]
Posted in From my kitchen on Jun 11th, 2010
Well, one upside of all the cool rainy weather is that it’s prolonged the “baking season.” It has yet to be so hot that I can’t justify running the oven.
Firecracker and I tried out a new recipe and whipped up some cookies for the neighbors – Martha’s Chocolate Malt cookies. We’re working our [...]
Posted in Birding, Homemaking, Locally grown on Jun 6th, 2010
While it’s by no means as big as this monster, we found quite a surprise in the nest box after church today.
Nudge, our Auracana, usually lays a large to extra-large sized egg (the pale green one in the middle (it looks a bit washed out in this shot)), compared to our Australorps that lay medium-large [...]