The market was full of color and corn and peppers and even apples. The aisles between the tables and trucks were crowded and not wanting to move with the slow current of people, I slipped in and around the other shoppers looking to my left […]
I have started drying my herbs again. Thanks to my friend Meg who plant sat while we were away, my pots of basil, sage, rosemary, mint, tarragon, oregano and thyme are doing really well. Last year I ended up drying most of my herbs […]
Last week we finally had a taste of winter, with snow, slush, flurries and chilly temperatures. As usual in early March, this week’s weather feels completely different. Yesterday the sun was genuinely warm, the air smelled of spring and the sidewalks were flooded with puddles […]
Once your starter is strong enough (a week to ten days after you started it), you can bake bread. Sourdough bread is leavened only by the wild yeast that has colonized your starter, though you can add a pinch of commercial yeast for extra lift, […]
If you’ve started your sourdough, how is it going? If your still uncertain and my endorsement isn’t enough, here is some more inspiration. I wanted to share a few more ideas about keeping a starter and getting comfortable with itbefore I post my recipe for […]
Quite some time ago, I wrote about baking sourdough bread. I’ve been meaning to elaborate on that and give more specific instructions for making a starter and which will become the base for a tender crumbed, crusty loaf of bread. In my experiences baking sourdough […]
I thought a cup of tea might be just the thing to let us pause and appreciate something small and ordinary. To write about tea, I must tell you about my mom, the tea drinker and tea pot collector. There are many things that […]
I’ve finally finished my canning projects for this year’s growing season. The nights have gotten much colder and it won’t be long before the days stay cold, too. I won’t have a woodstove to huddle near this winter, but there is a lot of warmth […]
I spent most of yesterday harvesting crops that wouldn’t survive the freeze we got last night. We cut all the winter squash from their vines placed them in long piles and covered them so they could make it through the cold night. After working hard […]
Two weeks ago, on one of the hottest days of July, I got out of work a little bit earlier than I had expected. At nine o’clock the sun was going down, but the air outside refused to cool off. The weather would not deter […]