Hatch chile is a staple here. We eat it on and with everything (burgers and pizza included). It is full of vitamins and minerals and makes for the perfect of comfort foods. When ordering it on your food, you’ll always be asked, “Red, Green or Christmas?” “Christmas” means having both…
…to drive a woman crazy? Apparently the answer is 150 pounds because that’s what we harvested last Friday evening and, at this point, I’m feeling a bit crazy about the process of processing 150 pounds of delicious (unforgiving) apples. Let’s go back a bit and explain how we acquired so…
Believe it or not, we are still working on the big garage organization project we started…ummm…I don’t know…months ago! Yes, the shelves have been built, but there is still some clutter and there are still a couple of walls that need to be painted. However, one of the more exciting…
After making several batches of rhubarb jam earlier this summer, I was kind of at a loss as to what else to make with our last harvest of rhubarb. So, I asked Tool Lady to find something that looked good to her and she did! Pickled rhubarb? Who knew? Well,…
So, what do you do when you come home from vacation to over 30 pounds of produce waiting for you in the garden? You figure out how to preserve it as quickly as possible and you spend the entirety of your last day of vacation putting a dent in the…
While there have been several great harvests coming in over the past couple of weeks, we still haven’t hit the point in the season where it is absolutely (ridiculously) overwhelming. We’ve been eating lots of fresh veggies out of the garden and trying to put up as many as possible…
After much debate, we culled our rooster on Wednesday. This culling found us both (Tool Lady and I) in a very introspective place. Not to say this is a bad thing. I think that if you’re getting ready to take a life, you should think about it, and have some…
A good friend of mine celebrated a birthday recently, and given her love of trees, I decided to paint her a tiny tree to wear around her neck 😉 Yes, that means I’m painting again! I haven’t painted in a while and have had a myriad of excuses (school, work, the garden…yada…