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Apples on a wonderful late winter rainy day
This is what I do when it rains; cook, of course! I converted the remaining half bushel of November 2010’s pie apples left in our spring house into pie slices in bags in the freezer. We had a mixture of…
A Bit About Brussles Sprouts
Unlike the chunky, dry, strong flavored mini-cabbages many of us were first introduced to as children real homegrown Brussles Sprouts are tiny nubbins of concentrated yummy taste. Here are what the harvested plants look like. While this picture was taken…
Ok, Kids, It’s Time to Roast Garlic!
Of course the house smells a bit but in one fell swoop you can have the entire winter’s worth of roasted garlic in your fridge with just one afternoon of work. I buy several sleeves of fall harvest garlic (it’s…
Milk Cow Retrospective
Here’s me and my favorite cow ever with her new heifer ‘back in the day’ on our farm in South Dakota! It was the spring of 1982 and the calf was the first heifer after a run of 6 bull…
Munch, Dig, Laugh: 2nd Wednesday’s with Leni
The final gathering of my 2nd Wednesday monthly open house will be in October on the 13th and I have decided to give it a theme – see the title above. : ) All summer I have been delighted to…
Please Can We Create a Sensible Recycling Method for Supermarket Vegetable Waste?
Because of our perverse American insistence on spotless, wrinkle free vegetables supermarket vegetable departments throw out garbage cans full of good produce everyday. Yesterday morning I went shopping at the Barracks Road Kroger in Charlottesville. To get to the jicima…