Fermenting is something that I’ve been wanting to add to my kitchen processes for a while now. We’re already doing a little bit. Ray brews beer using carefully controlled yeast to create an ideal end result. Pretty much every week I heat milk and add […]
Last Wednesday, I drove to my friend Emily’s house in Milwaukee. The route was about five and a half hours of rolling hills, farm land, brightly colored trees and smooth highway. In Milwaukee, I spent a lovely few days with Emily and her husband […]
Once a week, or sometimes less, I drive Ray to work (he usually bikes and our car hangs out in its spot behind our apartment) and on the way we stop at a coffee shop and get some breakfast. Its a nice little part of […]
I meant to get back here with a recipe sooner, but once I finished canning my applesauce my sewing machine finally returned from the repair shop. I’ve been back in sewing mode with trips in and out of the kitchen, too. I’ve been working on […]
In my quest to make things from scratch, I have realized that there are so many things that at first seem unscratchable. It’s so easy to go to the grocery store and bringing home boxes, cartons and jars of food that sometimes it seems like […]
I know it is only the second week of September, but it really feels like fall here. Some trees are showing more than just hints of red and yellow and I’ve mostly been keeping the windows closed in our apartment. I would have taken a […]
The autumn after I graduated from college I spent two months living in Oregon, a little bit south of Eugene. I lived in a tent in the woods, a few hundred feet from Aprovecho Research Center. I often think of these two months as a […]
Food preservation is in full swing here. It started with pesto, then last week I picked up a big bag of pickling cukes (so crisp and cucumbery!) and started a batch of dill pickles that are now fermenting and later will be canned. I also […]
This is the season when my obsession with food preservation begins. Usually, by mid-August, I have strawberries and blueberries in the freezer, maybe some jam or preserves canned and I am thinking about finding piles of tomatoes to make into salsa and sauce. Since we’ve […]
Now that we live in the mid-west, I am really missing the cooling ocean breezes of coastal Maine. I know it has been a hot summer pretty much everywhere. We all sweat and swelter and think that it must be hotter here than anywhere else. […]