Posted in Canning and Food Storage, Recipes on Oct 24th, 2012
When we were at the pumpkin patch last weekend, the farm stand was selling the last of the season’s tomatoes. They weren’t so good for eating fresh but would have been perfect for canning or making sauce. I didn’t buy any because I am done canning tomatoes but it did remind me that I never [...]
Posted in Canning and Food Storage, Eat Well, Recipes on Sep 28th, 2012
When I was pregnant with Carys Áine I craved tomatoes all the time. Luckily she’s a November baby so in the months before she was born ripe tomatoes were everywhere. There were several evenings when Mike ate ice cream and I had a bowl full of tomatoes from the garden with a little salt and [...]
Posted in Canning and Food Storage, Recipes on Sep 16th, 2012
Hands down, the best thing about preserving my own food is that I’m able to make fabulous flavor combinations that I can’t easily find in stores. I don’t want to pay premium prices for gourmet canned goods when I can easily make them myself. This weekend I’ve been making a lot of peach jam and [...]
Posted in Canning and Food Storage, Gardening, Recipes on Sep 15th, 2012
Mike and I recently got 5 pounds of basil. Combine that with the large amount we have growing in our backyard and we are swimming in basil. Five pounds of basil is a lot. We had bowls and buckets of basil in the kitchen and more stuffed in the fridge. Good thing I love basil. [...]
Posted in Cooking and Baking, Eat Well, Recipes on Apr 21st, 2012
Sugar in my peanut butter? Artificial flavors in my salad dressing? Red #5 in my barbecue sauce? BPA in the linings of canned food? No thanks! It’s better for the environment, my family’s health and my wallet to make from scratch some of the common items found in pantries across America. Click over to the [...]
Posted in Eat Well, Local Eating on Feb 18th, 2012
We are faced with so many produce choices at the supermarket even in the winter. Asparagus, pineapples, blueberries and avocados are just some of the out-of-season and/or non-local foods I saw yesterday at my favorite grocery store. Some of that food traveled over 6,000 miles from Chile to get to my store in Portland, OR! [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Christmas, Cooking and Baking, Eat Well, Holidays, Patterns & Tutorials, Recipes on Dec 23rd, 2008
I made peppermint marshmallows last night and they turned out better than I even imagined! Dense but light at the same time, squishy and chewy and so much better than those at the store! I read a lot of different recipes and blog posts about marshmallow making and I want to put all the good [...]
Posted in Autumn, Celebrate, Eat Well, Local Eating, Places, Portland, Seasons, Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2008
We went to the Apple Celebration at the Portland Nursery last weekend and and tasted over 60 kinds of apples and pears! Luckily we got a paper to write notes on and we learned a lot about apples. We bought a bunch of apples too so next up- applesauce! Even sesame got into the harvest [...]
Posted in Create, Eat Well, knitting, Local Eating, sweaters on Mar 21st, 2006
I finished something! I started knitting soleil last summer and just now finished! I didn’t quite finish it last summer when the weather started getting cold so I put it away until now. In honor of project spectrum, I decided to finally finish it. I thought I had a bit more to knit on the [...]
