Apples, pigs, tomatoes, cheese and more…back from the North
It is apple season now on the farm, my favorite time of year! I have much blogging to catch up on. First the trip to Charleston SC, then a color tour weekend near Gaylord climbing Old Baldie and pressing cider, then the better part of a week hanging on the farm in Leelanau […]
The sacred first tomato…roasted broccoli with garlic
I am happy to inform you that I just ate my first ripe garden tomato of the year. One jar of sauce left in the pantry. Good timing. Two more are on the way moving from that muted orange tint to red ripe. In celebration I am making a loaf of cheese bread with parmeasan, […]
no, i didn’t fall off the face of the earth
I have just been busy, like everyone else and sadly that means the blog falls by the wayside - temporarily. Of course I have been cooking, knitting - barely, brewing and gardening and will be blogging on all of it soon, so soon you won’t believe it. I have also been busy reading […]
gardening has begun…in stages
ah, finished
I planted beans, 2 types of peas, zuc, green onions, radish, leeks, swiss chard, spinach, sweet and Thai basil, cilantro, fenugreek, mesclun salad mix, broc and shallots and spread the straw. Nothing else to do until i can put the cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers in.
finally, i can rest
My hope is […]
Salad Nicoise ala ?
When I was in grad school, my group of friends was primarily international students. Could be because I was president for a while of the International Student Club - wow, that is an old memory. Could be because I spent 1.5 of my college years in Germany studying and got to know the […]
Indian tonight and tomorrow night…..
I have been a bit under the weather for the last 6 days. I started out making traditional comfort food like lemon and herb roasted chicken. then switched to my NM comfort foods, pork and green chile. Went back to childhood with tater tots (feeling too crappy to cook even that night) […]
Yards, trees, wood splitting and stump grinding
I have had a busy year. Well, 5 years. Four years ago the ball got rolling by having a gigantic limb fall from the 70-80 year old cottonwood by the garage (there were three of these giant trees). The tree fell on my mulberry tree - a fruiting one and my fence […]
Through the eyes of my cider
Homemade GF beer will come, if you make it…
Keeping up with the GF beer world. Here is a nice comparison of what is out there. I have yet to make my own, but I will. It has been enough for the last year to relearn how to cook fav’s, start baking any […]
Welcome to the new blog site!
Well, I have been having blog envy for a while now. The solution? Design my own blog with my colors and layout. I wanted a theme to match my mood, the colors of Mexico. It is still in process, but from now on I plan to post on this site: http://www.freshginger.org/ […]
grapefruit and boys
I have to gush for just a moment here, so give me a small gush moment if you would. Last night I was making stir fried shrimp with snow peas from this magazine http://www.saveur.com/ (of course I can’t find the recipe online to link to it) and my sweetie offered to make me a […]
